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From: Michael H. Phillips on 2 Jun 2010 07:05
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:11:51 +0100, TOG(a)Toil wrote:

> Had precisely this problem at work recently, after a switch to a new
> server. Simply changing the file suffixes (to .doc, .xls, .qxd, .pdf
> etc etc) cured it, although it was a monumental PITA to rename each
> file individually.

I wouldn't mind doing that, but Hogwasher's files don't have file suffixes.

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From: Chris Ridd on 2 Jun 2010 07:07
On 2010-06-02 12:03:39 +0100, Michael H. Phillips said:

> On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:38:08 +0100, Phil Taylor wrote:
>
>> Just guessing here, but if Hogwasher is a Carbon app it may depend on
>> having the filetype and creator OSTypes set on its files to work
>> correctly. The modern OS considers these obsolete and ignores them in
>> favour of file extensions to determine the file kind. I don't know of
>> any way you can fix this under OS X - you would have to copy the files
>> over to a system running OS 9 (or Classic) and use one of the old
>> utilities e.g. ResEdit or FileTyper to fix it.
>
> I checked the Type and Creator Codes with FileType and they are the same on a
> corrupt file and a freshly generated file.
>
> Neither file has a file extension.

Can you restore them from backup (Time Machine)?
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From: TOG on 2 Jun 2010 08:24
On 2 June, 12:05, Michael H. Phillips <m...(a)odtaa.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:11:51 +0100, TOG(a)Toil wrote:
> > Had precisely this problem at work recently, after a switch to a new
> > server. Simply changing the file suffixes (to .doc, .xls, .qxd, .pdf
> > etc etc) cured it, although it was a monumental PITA to rename each
> > file individually.
>
> I wouldn't mind doing that, but Hogwasher's files don't have file suffixes.
>
Ah. I didn't know that. Sorry.
From: Michael H. Phillips on 2 Jun 2010 08:45
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:07:32 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:

> Can you restore them from backup (Time Machine)?

I can, but the only non-corrupt versions are from the first backup, i.e. the
initial installation, and contain no data (accounts, settings, filters, etc.)
I have Andy from Apple working on a solution.

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From: Rowland McDonnell on 2 Jun 2010 21:07
Michael H. Phillips <mhp(a)odtaa.invalid> wrote:

> Phil Taylor wrote:
>
> > Just guessing here, but if Hogwasher is a Carbon app it may depend on
> > having the filetype and creator OSTypes set on its files to work
> > correctly. The modern OS considers these obsolete and ignores them in
> > favour of file extensions to determine the file kind. I don't know of
> > any way you can fix this under OS X - you would have to copy the files
> > over to a system running OS 9 (or Classic) and use one of the old
> > utilities e.g. ResEdit or FileTyper to fix it.
>
> I checked the Type and Creator Codes with FileType and they are the same on a
> corrupt file and a freshly generated file.
>
> Neither file has a file extension.

Type and creator codes are ignored by 10.6 - but not ignored by previous
Mac OS versions and strictly obeyed by pre OS X.

I'd be inclined to rebuild the launch services database if I were you.

I think Onyx can help you with that one. If not, I can dig around to
find the command line incantation to do the job.

Might not do the needful, but not a bad thing to try first.

Rowland.
(annoyed that file extension are `it' these days - we have lesser
computing under 10.6).

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