Migrating Office X files to Windows SBS 2k3

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InforSean - 21 Feb 2007 16:07 GMT

I have a situation with migrating some older Office X files to a new Windows
Small-Biz Server 2003 environment. It seems that the person I am working with
did not use the "Append file extensions" option when saving his Office X
files on his Mac server (10.2.8).

So now I have a situation where I need to move these extension-less files
over to the Windows server but they will lose thier file associations. Is
there anyway to save this extension "metadata" to convert these files on the
Windows side? I have about 20GB of data to migrate and manually opening each
file with "open with" really is not an option.

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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] - 22 Feb 2007 08:33 GMT

I would be surprised if that mattered. Windows Word doesn't care about file
extensions, and neither does Windows XP.

The file type and creator code are still buried in the file header (in the
first 500 bytes). That's what both Windows and Word will use to determine
what the file is.

So while they will have blank icons, they should open in any
correctly-configured copy of Office, on either Windows or Mac clients.

Cheers

On 22/2/07 3:07 AM, in article
E5FDA472-FC32-4938-8DD2-02ABF0D7FDCE@microsoft.com, "InforSean"

> I have a situation with migrating some older Office X files to a new Windows
> Small-Biz Server 2003 environment. It seems that the person I am working with
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> Windows side? I have about 20GB of data to migrate and manually opening each
> file with "open with" really is not an option.

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litttle.creature.inc@gmail.com - 27 Feb 2007 10:16 GMT

On Feb 22, 9:33 am, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]"
<j...@mcghie.name> wrote:

> I would be surprised if that mattered. Windows Word doesn't care about file
> extensions, and neither does Windows XP.
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> Technical Writer.
> Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

Just to add... As John has said...I have tried if you COPY Mac Word-
document without extension on PC (in my case XP pro and office2003)
then the file opens in word automatically.
If I just CONNECT from that PC to my Mac Desktop to open Word-document
without extension, the PC asks me which Application I want to opent
that file.

You can on file properties on Windows say - always use this
application to open this kind of files. (Note: it's disabled in the
latter case described above because the file is not owned by Windows)

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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] - 27 Feb 2007 12:43 GMT

Hi Little_Creature:

OK, that's not the case between Word 2003/Word 2007 and the Mac here :-)

I don't know why it's doing it for you. On my system, I can open/edit from
one to the other in either direction.

I'll have to check and see if I can produce the problem you're noticing.
Maybe I already registered the Mac File Type and Creator codes on the PC
years back and I have forgotten...

Cheers

On 27/2/07 9:16 PM, in article
1172571375.664793.194490@z35g2000cwz.googlegroups.com,

> On Feb 22, 9:33 am, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]"
> <j...@mcghie.name> wrote:
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> application to open this kind of files. (Note: it's disabled in the
> latter case described above because the file is not owned by Windows)

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