os9 files not reading on os x

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borton

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hi
i'm new to this forum.
my work just got me a g5. very nice of them i know.
but when i was saying goodbye to my g4 i put lots of files onto the server including fonts, and then transferred them onto my g5 when it was up and running.
however, now that i have the files back, they are all 'unix executable files' and i can't do anything with them. and i really need those fonts back.
any suggestions/ideas?

sam
kinkos, sydney, australia
 
Whta kind of server is it (what software is it running)? How did you copy the files to the server (what protocol did you use)? Were they only font files, or do other kinds of file show up as unix executables?
 
they were also urgrading our server... from an nt4 to a 2003.
i think i put them on the nt4 server and then they were copied to the 2003 server and then onto the g5.
i also copied some install files... final cut pro etc... they are also unix executable files now.
 
Ah, the fact that they copied the files from the NT machine to the 2003 machine could be the culprit here. The meta-data may not have been copied over.

Can you try getting one file that you KNOW what kind of file it is (like a PhotoShop file) -- open PhotoShop, and then do a Command-O and try and open the file like that?
 
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