Due to some faulty utility software (Aladdin's Spring Cleaning) I have had to reinitialize my G4's hard drive. Before I did it, I saved my important files to my G3 Powerbook. Now I have taken them back to my again healthy G4 and they are reporting damaged resource forks. I've tried everthing I can think of...Norton, Tech Tool Pro 3, calling Adobe and no help. The files show the proer icons and will open the right apps. I get error messages saying that they are invalid file formats. Is there anything I can do? This is 3 months of my and my coworkers time in these files. ANY suggestions would be apprec

You should have compressed the files before moving. If you have access to a PC with the same version programs, take the files to that and open them, if it will, then save in a Mac format, compress the files and bring back to the Mac.

What may have happened is that they lost either the creator or file type info. You can use a shareware program called Filewacker and edit those. You can also use Norton's fastfind function to edit the types as well. I've noticed my Photoshop file types would change to "ogle" when I had the Quicktime picture viewer on my system. This would cause them to automatically open in Quicktime picture viewer instead of PhotoShop. It was very annoying. I used File Buddy (demo copy available on web) to batch change my file type to 8BIM (PhotoShop). I hope this helps.

You could also try MacLinkPlus Deluxe made by Data Viz. This program might be able to fix your files.