EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

i'm trying to recover exs24 instruments created in logic5.5 under os9.2.2, but the files appear as grey unix executable files and logic 7 under osx10.4 wont read them..
Has anyone seen this/ know how to access/convert them? i dont know if its to do with the 9.2.2-osx shift?

At 08:15 AM 11/5/2010, you wrote:

>I'm trying to recover exs24 instruments created in logic5.5 under 
>os9.2.2, but the files appear as grey unix executable files and 
>logic 7 under osx10.4 wont read them..
>Has anyone seen this/ know how to access/convert them? i dont know 
>if its to do with the 9.2.2-osx shift?

Sort of. I suspect your EXS24 instruments don't have ".exs" at the 
end of the file name.

Mac's "type" their files nowadays using two methods. If the file is 
on a HFS drive (the typical mac format), there is a FileType entry. 
If it's typed as '.exs', then Logic sees it as a EXS file and it 
shows up in the pull-down menu. It also sees all files that have .exs 
(called an "extension") at the end of the file. OSX, in leiu of of a 
proper FileType entry, will look at the extension and sort of 
"auto-type" it that way.

I suspect you transferred your EXS files to your new OSX machine 
through disks (like NTFS-format drives or FAT32 drives, or via a 
network or downloading) where the FileType entry was lost, and since 
your files don't have a .exs extension in their name, OSX just calls 
it a Unix file since it can't FileType it.

Put .exs at the end of all your EXS24 files and they'll magically show up.

Apple is generally going away from the FileType entry method of 
typing files, for the same reasons existing in your difficulty. Apple 
wants to increase compatibility so they are de-emphasizing Mac-only 
features so Mac's work better with other computer types such as 
Windows and Unix.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User