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computer illiterate - Jul 23, 2005 - 12:27 am
Okay, I am not a techy by any means. I used my flash drive to bring some photos home from my work computer. They loaded fine. I looked at them and named them so I didn't have to open them each time. I apparently also opened a file that was RESOURCE.FRK which I have no idea what it is or what happened, but now some of my pictures have this weird gray box that has exec on the top and when you click on them nothing happens. They have this unix excutable file so.....I put the folder in the trash and put the flash drive back in thinking that I could just start over, but no. They showed up on the flash drive that way too!!! What the hell did I do and what can I do to fix it??? The originals are still on my computer at work, but I need to know what happened so that I don't do it again. Please help. This computer is killing me!!!
Thank you kindly for your assistance,
Kit
Thank you kindly for your assistance,
Kit
Saxphile - Jul 23, 2005 - 6:17 am
Hi Kit,
This can happen when you put files from a Mac onto a drive formatted with DOS/Windows format. Mac saves some extra information about files that Windows doesn't understand, and this might be the cause of confusion for you. From your description I assume you have a Mac at work and a PC at home?
Anyway, put your flash drive in, *right click* on your photos and choose Open with. Choose whatever program you usually open them with. This should do it for you. Also, make sure your explorer windows is in Thumbnail view mode.
Let me know if you have more questions.
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
This can happen when you put files from a Mac onto a drive formatted with DOS/Windows format. Mac saves some extra information about files that Windows doesn't understand, and this might be the cause of confusion for you. From your description I assume you have a Mac at work and a PC at home?
Anyway, put your flash drive in, *right click* on your photos and choose Open with. Choose whatever program you usually open them with. This should do it for you. Also, make sure your explorer windows is in Thumbnail view mode.
Let me know if you have more questions.
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
computer illiterate - Jul 23, 2005 - 3:43 pm
Thanks Charlie,
I will try this. I do have a Mac at work and an IMac at home so I don't know about the PC thing. After I e-mailed you I continued to see what I could do given that the originals are on another machine if I screwed up. I can get them to open one at a time if I use Adobe Illustrator. Is there a way I can change them all back to what they used to be and put them in one place? Given the new information that both machines are Macs, I will wait for a response before going further.
Thank you kindly for your assistance. I agree with Picasso.
Kitty
I will try this. I do have a Mac at work and an IMac at home so I don't know about the PC thing. After I e-mailed you I continued to see what I could do given that the originals are on another machine if I screwed up. I can get them to open one at a time if I use Adobe Illustrator. Is there a way I can change them all back to what they used to be and put them in one place? Given the new information that both machines are Macs, I will wait for a response before going further.
Thank you kindly for your assistance. I agree with Picasso.
Kitty
Saxphile - Jul 25, 2005 - 8:32 am
Hi Kitty,
You case sounds quite odd to me, but I think it might have to do with the format of your flash drive. You really shouldn't be able to see RESOURCE.FRK if you use the flash drive on a Mac.
Here's a possible fix. Put your flash drive back in and copy the folder with pictures to your Mac. Click on any of the pictures while holding control, and click on Get Info in the menu. What program is under "Open With" now? It should be Preview, Illustrator or whatever program you use to open pictures. If it's not then click on the drop-down menu and choose the program you want to use. Then click on "Change All..". This should solve the program. If not, check if the file sizes make sense and let me know if you noticed anything unusual.
Cheers,
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
You case sounds quite odd to me, but I think it might have to do with the format of your flash drive. You really shouldn't be able to see RESOURCE.FRK if you use the flash drive on a Mac.
Here's a possible fix. Put your flash drive back in and copy the folder with pictures to your Mac. Click on any of the pictures while holding control, and click on Get Info in the menu. What program is under "Open With" now? It should be Preview, Illustrator or whatever program you use to open pictures. If it's not then click on the drop-down menu and choose the program you want to use. Then click on "Change All..". This should solve the program. If not, check if the file sizes make sense and let me know if you noticed anything unusual.
Cheers,
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
computer illiterate - Jul 26, 2005 - 11:35 am
OK, i tried this and it won't let me open it with anything else except illustrator, but then I can't copy it to anywhere else. Other photos open with preview. When I try these files they say not in the right format. Duh! so..... It also won't let me use preview to open them. I can open preview, but it won't open or convert or whatever. When I checked size it is extremely large compared to others, at least I think so. One photo says 16 KB which I assume is a lot. I don't know how to copy the file to send to you. When I tried it just lists the title. The RESOURCE.FRK was a folder that showed in the folder of pictures, however it didn't change all of them. I don't know if they were in TIF files or not. The ones I can still open are JPGs, but it won't let me change these to JPG. As I said earlier I have them on another computer, but I would like to know what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again! Obviously the easy solution is don't open that RESOURCE.FRK. What is RESOURE.FRK anyway??? I certainly do appreciate all of your assistance. If there is another way I can send you the file I'll gladly do it. Would it come as an attachment to a regular e-mail address? I am an art teacher which will explain my incompedence to you, but am married to a technology coordinator who works on the server end of tech. and is no help He doesn't do these types of programs and they are what I need most.
Thanks again!!
Kitty
He doesn't do these types of programs and they are what I need most. Thanks again!!
Kitty
Saxphile - Jul 27, 2005 - 6:00 am
Hi Kit,
RESOURCE.FRK is the file Mac OS X uses to store information about files. So for an image file it might contain stuff like the size of the image and a thumbnail version of the image. I'm not sure why all this would happen when you open RESOURCE.FRK, however. I think it might have to do with the format of your flash drive. How old is it? Is the size quite small (<256MB)? Some old flash drives came in an old DOS format (FAT), which is sometimes incompatible with Mac.
16K is actually very small for an image file, and that's likely a thumbnail-sized image of your image rather than itself. So it is possible that you've accidentally deleted the original images and you've been trying to open the thumbnail images.
There are a few ways to go around this. First you can try to zip the files on your work computer and put it on the flash drive. Copy the zip file to your home computer before expanding it. To zip files, select the files you want in Finder, then go to File menu and choose "Create archive of xx files". The resulting file is the zip file. To expand it, simply double-click. The second method involves reformating your flash drive, but I need to know the version of Mac OS X you have before I can give you instructions. To check the version of Mac OS X, go to Apple menu (upper-left corner), click on "About this Mac".
Let me know if you need more help.
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
RESOURCE.FRK is the file Mac OS X uses to store information about files. So for an image file it might contain stuff like the size of the image and a thumbnail version of the image. I'm not sure why all this would happen when you open RESOURCE.FRK, however. I think it might have to do with the format of your flash drive. How old is it? Is the size quite small (<256MB)? Some old flash drives came in an old DOS format (FAT), which is sometimes incompatible with Mac.
16K is actually very small for an image file, and that's likely a thumbnail-sized image of your image rather than itself. So it is possible that you've accidentally deleted the original images and you've been trying to open the thumbnail images.
There are a few ways to go around this. First you can try to zip the files on your work computer and put it on the flash drive. Copy the zip file to your home computer before expanding it. To zip files, select the files you want in Finder, then go to File menu and choose "Create archive of xx files". The resulting file is the zip file. To expand it, simply double-click. The second method involves reformating your flash drive, but I need to know the version of Mac OS X you have before I can give you instructions. To check the version of Mac OS X, go to Apple menu (upper-left corner), click on "About this Mac".
Let me know if you need more help.
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
computer illiterate - Jul 27, 2005 - 9:48 am
Hi Charlie,
I sure do appreciate all your assistance.
I have Mac OS X 10.3.9, my flash drive was purchased in June. I is a SanDisk cruzer minim and it is 1.0 GB. I was taking a digital imaging class and the prof. said it was a good choice.
I opened one of the pictures in illustrator and tried to copy it thinking I could save it as a TIF or a JPG, but it only gives me these options. Adobe PDF, Illustrator EPS, SVG, or SVG compressed and since I don't know anything about these I just canceled until further instructions
I was at school yesterday and tried to just send the picture to Wal-mart so I can get the photos, but they apparently aren't right either. I don't know why. They open on my computer just find and when I checked the open with it has picture viewer which must be some program on my school computer. Who knows. Of course they don't tell us anything So......
Also, FYI, when I click on that gray screen with the EXEC on it that is supposedly the picture nothing happens. I can print the photos at school. I have an EPSON printer, but I would like to save them to a CD so that I would have them in the future if I wanted or need them. I don't have a CD burner on my school machine which was part of the reason for the flash drive to do that at home.
I don't know if I told you that not every picture in the file converted to that gray box. The others are in JPEG and open with preview. I really want to solve the problem so it doesn't happen again either by me or someone else in our house
Thanks again!!! Have a great day!!
Kitty
I sure do appreciate all your assistance.
I have Mac OS X 10.3.9, my flash drive was purchased in June. I is a SanDisk cruzer minim and it is 1.0 GB. I was taking a digital imaging class and the prof. said it was a good choice.
I opened one of the pictures in illustrator and tried to copy it thinking I could save it as a TIF or a JPG, but it only gives me these options. Adobe PDF, Illustrator EPS, SVG, or SVG compressed and since I don't know anything about these I just canceled until further instructions
I was at school yesterday and tried to just send the picture to Wal-mart so I can get the photos, but they apparently aren't right either. I don't know why. They open on my computer just find and when I checked the open with it has picture viewer which must be some program on my school computer. Who knows. Of course they don't tell us anything
So...... Also, FYI, when I click on that gray screen with the EXEC on it that is supposedly the picture nothing happens. I can print the photos at school. I have an EPSON printer, but I would like to save them to a CD so that I would have them in the future if I wanted or need them. I don't have a CD burner on my school machine which was part of the reason for the flash drive to do that at home.
I don't know if I told you that not every picture in the file converted to that gray box. The others are in JPEG and open with preview. I really want to solve the problem so it doesn't happen again either by me or someone else in our house
Thanks again!!! Have a great day!!
Kitty
Saxphile - Jul 27, 2005 - 3:58 pm
Hi Kit,
Sounds like the files you're talking about are in some special format. If your flash drive handles other JPEG files fine then it is not the problem.
Download this program on your home Mac:
http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/index.htm
And try to open the problematic files in it. It should allow you to save the files as JPEG or TIF.
Let me know if you need more help.
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
Sounds like the files you're talking about are in some special format. If your flash drive handles other JPEG files fine then it is not the problem.
Download this program on your home Mac:
http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/index.htm
And try to open the problematic files in it. It should allow you to save the files as JPEG or TIF.
Let me know if you need more help.
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
computer illiterate - Jul 31, 2005 - 11:59 am
Hi Charlie,
Well, I went to the page you sent, but I couldn't find a place to download it. Is it called Tiger? Should there have been a place like some that say free download or to update? If so I didn't see it on the page. If it is a program they might have it at the college where I teach part-time. I teach Art in a public elem. full time and art edu. for Georgetown College so you would think I could figure out a computer They have programs we can borrow and put on our home computers so if that is the case I can check there tomorrow.
Is fixing peoples computer problems your full-time job? You are very good at it, but I would think it would be frustrating too. You have been a great help to me. Hopefully we will get this problem fixed. In the future if I have other problems or questions if I keep an e-mail from you and do the reply thing will it come back to you? I always run in to something
Have a great day!!
Kitty
Well, I went to the page you sent, but I couldn't find a place to download it. Is it called Tiger? Should there have been a place like some that say free download or to update? If so I didn't see it on the page. If it is a program they might have it at the college where I teach part-time. I teach Art in a public elem. full time and art edu. for Georgetown College so you would think I could figure out a computer
They have programs we can borrow and put on our home computers so if that is the case I can check there tomorrow. Is fixing peoples computer problems your full-time job? You are very good at it, but I would think it would be frustrating too. You have been a great help to me. Hopefully we will get this problem fixed. In the future if I have other problems or questions if I keep an e-mail from you and do the reply thing will it come back to you? I always run in to something
Have a great day!!
Kitty
computer illiterate - Jul 31, 2005 - 12:01 pm
Hey, I found on this site a thing called Cocktail Mac OS X and it had a tiger component or at least it looks like it does, can I use this to get what you sent??
Kitty
Kitty
Saxphile - Jul 31, 2005 - 11:29 pm
Hi Kit,
You can get GraphicConverter by clicking on this link:
http://www.lemkesoft.org/files/gc562x.dmg
Use GraphicConverter to open the files you have problem with and convert them into a more common format. It is a shareware, which means you can use it for 30 days without paying for it. I personally quite like it, and if it solves your problem then you should consider buying it.
Tiger is the code name for Apple's newest operation system (Mac OS X 10.4). So if you see Tiger mentioned in the description of a software it usually means it supports Apple's newest Mac OS.
I don't do computer support full-time and this is just a volunteer work. I don't think I'd enjoy this half as much if my livelihood depends on solving computer problems for other people. You can email your computer problems to charlie@macosx.com, and I'll help you if I can. You're also welcome to ask questions using our support system (as you did for this one). This way you'll have hundreds of techs looking a your problem, and chances are you'll find someone to help you more quickly.
Cheers,
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
You can get GraphicConverter by clicking on this link:
http://www.lemkesoft.org/files/gc562x.dmg
Use GraphicConverter to open the files you have problem with and convert them into a more common format. It is a shareware, which means you can use it for 30 days without paying for it. I personally quite like it, and if it solves your problem then you should consider buying it.
Tiger is the code name for Apple's newest operation system (Mac OS X 10.4). So if you see Tiger mentioned in the description of a software it usually means it supports Apple's newest Mac OS.
I don't do computer support full-time and this is just a volunteer work. I don't think I'd enjoy this half as much if my livelihood depends on solving computer problems for other people. You can email your computer problems to charlie@macosx.com, and I'll help you if I can. You're also welcome to ask questions using our support system (as you did for this one). This way you'll have hundreds of techs looking a your problem, and chances are you'll find someone to help you more quickly.
Cheers,
Charlie
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
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