OSX not recongnizing file associations

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backed up all my files from a OS9 machine onto a windows file server and backup tape(retrospect) then I installed fresh copy of OSX jaguar. Now, OSX cannot recongize any files unless they have an extension. Also when I try to open some of them manually, it cannot open the files. Even the restored files from tape have this problem. Is there a way to have OSX recongnize the files by content(like Linux)? There are way too many files to add extensions to.


thanx,
 
Did you just send all the files straight across the network to the Windows system? If you didn't package them up with Stuffit or Disk Copy or something similar, then all of the resource forks probably got dumped. Unfortunately, there's really no way to get them back. You should be able to reset the type and creator codes on the files that didn't have a resource fork to begin with.
 
Same problem here, and I'm dealing with it day-by-day, as the problem arises. I didn't copy across a file server -- I've got four hard drives... one for OS 9, one for OS X, one for miscellaneous files/documents/updates/music/pictures and one last one for video editing. After a fresh install of OS X 10.2, leaving the OS 9/Misc. Files/Video Editing hard drives untouched, all my file associations that DIDN'T have a file extension somehow now show up as generic documents.

For example, most of my QuarkXPress documents are now unrecognized by QuarkXPress running under classic. I can add the .qxd extension and most of the time they'll be recognized by doing a "File > Open" command, but still, that doesn't fix ALL the QuarkXPress documents that somehow lost their association. Hell, even some OS X-native applications lost their associations until I added extensions to them... annoying as hell! Now I've got documents with just names that show up as generic documents and I can't tell which friggin' program I used to create them! Even Illustrator-created .EPS files, that DO have extensions, show up as generic documents, and I have to open Illustrator and THEN open the file to get it to be recognized!

I don't think it's an issue with the file server or network you used to back up your files -- I think it's an issue with doing a clean install of OS X 10.2. At least in my experience it was.
 
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