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Re: Mac-PT file transfer problem [message #85567 is a reply to message #85566] |
Tue, 29 May 2007 17:41 |
JeffH
Messages: 307 Registered: October 2007 Location: Wamic, OR
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Windows identifies files by the three caharacter extension after the
period. If the files were named without them, windows won't have a clue
what to do with them. What windows are you running?
Jeff
Chas. Duncan wrote:
> Wonder if one of you more Mac-aware people could diagnose this
> trouble: friend of mine is trying to give me some sd2 files he's made
> on his little ProTools LE rig at home... He drags 'em into a folder,
> burns them onto a data cd, and when I open them here (on the PC)
> Windows only sees them as generic "files" -- that is, not audio
> files, or sd2's in particular -- just "files". Name and size looks
> right, but -- they won't open in Wavelab, which is the Swiss Army
> knife of audio apps... I figure he's overlooking some kind of detail
> on his end -- he's not much of a computer geek, Mac or otherwise.
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> Haven't seen this particular glitch yet-- anybody?
>
> TIA -- chas.
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Re: Mac-PT file transfer problem [message #85580 is a reply to message #85570] |
Tue, 29 May 2007 20:55 |
duncan
Messages: 123 Registered: November 2006
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Another "doh" moment in professional audio...
Thanks very much... One mystery though: how come I haven't run into
this before when doing drag-and-drop copies of audio files out of
protools on a Mac? I've successfully taken several sessions worth of
files from another studio back home this way -- drag 'em from the Mac
onto an external hard drive, lug it home, plug into the PC and go...
What did my friend do "wrong" (different) this time?
-- appreciate the enlightenment -- some of us missed a semester in
computer kindergarten and are still filling in the blanks...
-- chas.
On Tue, 29 May 2007 19:07:20 -0600, "Dave(EK Sound)"
<audioguy_editout_@shaw.ca> wrote:
>Rename the files on your pc with the .sd2 extension. Mac
>doesn't use extensions, that's why windowz doesn't know what
>it is....
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>David.
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>Chas. Duncan wrote:
>> Wonder if one of you more Mac-aware people could diagnose this
>> trouble: friend of mine is trying to give me some sd2 files he's made
>> on his little ProTools LE rig at home... He drags 'em into a folder,
>> burns them onto a data cd, and when I open them here (on the PC)
>> Windows only sees them as generic "files" -- that is, not audio
>> files, or sd2's in particular -- just "files". Name and size looks
>> right, but -- they won't open in Wavelab, which is the Swiss Army
>> knife of audio apps... I figure he's overlooking some kind of detail
>> on his end -- he's not much of a computer geek, Mac or otherwise.
>>
>> Haven't seen this particular glitch yet-- anybody?
>>
>> TIA -- chas.
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