ProblemsTransfering TDM to PTLE via Firewire Drive

I've gone from my studio's mac HD TDM system to my win XP PTLE home system many times with ease. today i have had my first glitch, please help. when i opened the transfered data using my firwire drive onto my PC i found that all of the filenames were listed without extensions. instead of "song1.pts" it's just "song1" and all of the audio files are without extensions as well. i've tried renaming the files with extensions, but PTLE crashes when i try to load them. any suggestions? thanks greatly, this is an important session i can't afford to lose.

Sounds like you didn't check the Mac/PC box.. and the sound files are still sd2 files (not AIFF or WAV). Rail

hmm, that doesn't sound so bad. is there a way to fix this now? do i need to do it from the studio as opposed to from my home xp setup? thanks for the tip.

Hey Mike, thanks for the suggestion. unfortunately, where i'm at right now is that these file won't open anywhere, not PC not Mac. The files are all there, (without extensions mind you) but ProTools does not recognize any of them. The firewire drive is fat 32, and every other session on the drive works. only this one, is messed up (probably b/ it was recorded as sd2's (i think)). i've tried renaming the sessions, i've tried importing just the audio files into a new session. nothing works.. all the files are unrecognized. one of the digi guys suggested a program called creator changer. anyone ever used it? i'm really stumped, and this really sucks, so if anyone can help me figure this out, i will buy them a six pack or 4. also, i'm in NYC, if i can't get this going myself, maybe someone knows a good mac audio doctor or digi specialist they could recommend. here's my email:

Sounds like you stripped off the resource forks of all the files.. not too bad a deal with the audio files -- but if the session wasn't saved as Mac/PC compatible.. I believe it's toast unless you have a backup on the Mac. The audio files can be opened with something like Sound Forge as RAW data files and you'll have to set the sample rate, the resolution and the byte order... and saved as WAV files. Rail

if i can salvage the audio data, i'm a happy man, or at least a still employed man. i will give this a shot tonight and see if it works, thank you for the advice.

if i can salvage the audio data, i'm a happy man, or at least a still employed man. i will give this a shot tonight and see if it works. i'll let you know what happens. thank you for the advice.

Mr. Rail Jon Rogut, what is your drink? Thank g-d for the DUC and people like Rail who contribute to it. i guess the dude from Digi Tech help who I spent a half hour on the phone with wouldn't recommend another audio app that competes with PT to me, but thanks to Rail, i'm back in action and still have a job! Who hoo! Thanks!

Glad to help. I don't think it's a matter of Digi not wanting to recommend another app.. rather a matter of this not being an answer that's covered in the Digi AnswerBase which their tech support follow. Cheers. Rail