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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2005Office file assoiciations lost on Windows server
We recently migrated from a Novell to a Windows 2003 server and all of the files (primarily Word and PowerPoint files) copied to the directories that do not have extensions (as they were created by Mac users) lost their associations. The only way that they are reassociated is if we add file extensions or each file is opened and closed (which changes the date). As we have tens if not hundreds of thousands of files, the manual approach is impossible. Is there a program for OS X or Microsoft Office that recognizes the proper associations and adds a file extension or just reassociates the files, displaying the proper icon? I found one program, but you have to specify the type of file. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. Shari When you copied to Windows 2003, looks like you lost the resource forks of the files. The easy way to get it all back is to copy again with an utility that keeps resource forks. Thanks! Do you have any recommendations? Shari Hmmm... If you perform the copy from the Windows server with the Novel drive mounted as a share, Windows should prompt you that the files have resource forks and ask if you want to keep them. However, this should not be a huge problem even if you cannot get them back: double-clicking the file in either Mac or Windows will cause either OS to hand the file off to the correct application. If that's not happening for you, you may need to check your file associations on the client. cheers On 20/11/05 4:31 AM, in article 1132421507.380763.168650@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com, "Shari" <skubitz@pitt.edu> wrote: > Thanks! Do you have any recommendations? > > Shari  SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 > We recently migrated from a Novell to a Windows 2003 server and all of > the files (primarily Word and PowerPoint files) copied to the [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I found one program, but you have to specify the type of file. If the Novell is still available -- a sensible IT dept would keep it around for a while, just in case -- use (for example) Spotlight or File Buddy to find all the Word docs, then churn them through a file-rename utility (File Buddy or third party) and add a .doc extension. Do the same for PowerPoint .ppt, and so on. Novell is availble, but we have more than 100,000 files. Do either of these utilities find all of the files of that type or do you have to identify them? Shari > If the Novell is still available -- a sensible IT dept would keep it around > for a while, just in case -- use (for example) Spotlight or File Buddy to > find all the Word docs, then churn them through a file-rename utility (File > Buddy or third party) and add a .doc extension. Do the same for PowerPoint > .ppt, and so on. > Novell is availble, but we have more than 100,000 files. Do either of > these utilities find all of the files of that type or do you have to > identify them? I'm thinking you use File Buddy (www.skytag.com) to locate all files of creator MSWD (for Word) and type W8BN for regular docs. File Buddy has a handy file-rename feature right there, and could easily add .doc to the end. The problem with Spotlight is that there is no batch operation process you can run at the end, although you might be able to pass the search results off to another tool using Automator. |
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