Opening Metro files from previous versions

[cornutt]

I've just discovered today that I can't open any Metro files created by versions prior to 6.3.7. Whenever I try, I get "Error -2048: No movie found". The files I'm trying to open don't contain movies; they're just ordinary Metro files. It seems like I recall something about this, but I can't find anything in the forum archives or in the release notes. I downloaded and installed 6.3.8.3 to see if that would make any difference, but it didn't.

The files are showing up with random file types in the Finder. I think this may have had to do with an OS upgrade I did two months ago, when I went to 10.4.6 coincident with replacing my system disk (the old one died, and I needed a bigger one anyway). Did something change in OSX file type determination that is making Metro think these are Quicktime files? To be honest, I've never really understood all the rules that OSX uses to try to guess file types. Things sure were simpler back in the days of the type and creater codes.

[Jerm]

Why not OS 10.4.8?

Please email me one and I will take a look. Did you transfer them to a PC and then back?

Try setting the file type to 'BYSQ' and see if that fixes it.

[cornutt]

That worked. Thanks! I changed the type code on several files to see if it worked, and they open properly now. Of the ones I've looked at, all of them have had their type codes trashed (non-printing characters). I don't know how that happened, but now I know how to fix it. Again, thanks!

BTW, I have 10.4.6 because that's what they had in the store the day I went in to buy a replacement for my failing system drive. Is 10.4.8 an upgrade worth doing?