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Thanks Linda, I appreciate the heads up! Since I was on the other side of the Adobe/Macromedia merge, I did a lot of work in Freehand and have plenty of files in the archive. Hadn't tried opening one lately, but guess I won't get rid of those old CS5 discs after all! Thanks again! On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Linda Feltner <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi All: > With the thread of backups and various storage for archiving projects, I > encountered an interesting road-block. > > With my upgrade to Adobe Suite CC, it will not open "some" older > Illustrator files. It is showing the project files as a dark gray icon with > green letters in the upper left "exec". These are very tiny files, unlike > the original project file. It also had no extension, so I couldn't tell > what kind of file it was to begin with. > > I went to the knowledgebase, which did discuss the issue, but did not > solve it. > The knowledgebase went on a severe tangent because folks did not read > correctly and droned on about "exe" files and said they were Windows > products, blah blah. But this has nothing to do with being created on a > Windows machine. Read EXEC, not EXE. > > But what I did glean, was that if one selects the file (which has the > extension removed) and uses File>Get Info (or key command), then it showed > me under Kind: "Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 Document".. This is confusing > because it is in no way a CC document. Originally created around 1998, and > in Freehand. It had been opened and updated to an Adobe Illustrator > product a few years ago, when I backed up all the client files into a new > system. BUT, seeing it might be an Illustrator file, it lead me to open an > old iMac that I have not recycled yet, which had Adobe Suite CS5 on it. > The file was recognized, even though it did not have an extension. It asked > to convert a Freehand file, YES Please! And it worked. I saved it as an > EPS file, that worked great. It also saved as a CS5 file. However, it has > truncated all the links, such as "blackbd scan1200dpi.tif" to "0dpi.tif".. > so I need to manually rename all the links to match the archive job files > in the folder. > > I have converted it to a Illustrator CC file, there are some issues, but I > think it's better than no file at all!. > > So, thank you Apple for giving me and my client palpitations. > Without the older programs on my yet-to-be-recycled computer, I would have > been spending hours trying to find it in the knowledgebase. > > So, hopefully this is helpful for any who don't know about "exec" files > (it could be just me). > > Cheers, > Linda > > > -- > > _____________________ > Linda M. Feltner Artist LLC > Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, President > 520.803.0538 <(520)%20803-0538> > > www.lindafeltner.com > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.lindafeltner.com&d=DwMDaQ&c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=AGYZ7-AeerjxzYnIwL-lBLFI3SPYN3BDmku4qGQB4Tg&m=j2kC4G1dB67YQEulUlMtnubkpSGttnGULyZj1LZTfPA&s=EVj4VW43v6psk27EweL5XL7iA1S2Cna_b2sW1OFGymA&e=> > > ________________________________________________ > > Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the > instructions at > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.gnsi.org_resources_reviews_gnsi-2Dsciart-2Dl-2Dlistserv&d=DwIFaQ&c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=AGYZ7-AeerjxzYnIwL-lBLFI3SPYN3BDmku4qGQB4Tg&m=hv4RFGLSUNAA8Aq8o8hPGU-qVVmPpulUqyIt3V_SBkI&s=8VOOG-U4q8QWrW6HVRQt-WYBKyKGi1u26bPgX4OAZf0&e= > Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the instructions at http://www.gnsi.org/resources/reviews/gnsi-sciart-l-listserv