I have the arduous task of restoring an old fcp project and I hit a roadblock with a whole bunch of .mov files that were moved to a NAS which altered the resource map of the files (the resource fork apparently broke?!). I have to use FCP7 on a mac running OSX 10.10 and unfortunately this computer can't play the .mov files (VLC can play them fine.) I found online an old blog written by Florian Bogner in which he wrote a great terminal script that fixes the extended attributes of one file at a time. Can anyone suggest the best way to run this script on a folder of hundreds of .mov files?
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo ' ____ _______ ______ ______ ______ _______ __'
echo ' / __ \__ __|____ | | ____| /\ | ____|_ _\ \ / /'
echo ' | | | | | | / / | |__ / \ | |__ | | \ V / '
echo ' | | | | | | / / | __| / /\ \ | __| | | > < '
echo ' | |__| | | | / / | |____ / ____ \ | | _| |_ / . \ '
echo ' \___\_\ |_| /_/ |______/_/ \_\ |_| |_____/_/ \_\'
echo ''
echo ''
echo 'This tool tries to fix the error message'
echo ' "Resource map is incorrect"'
echo 'as reported by Quicktime 7 based Applications.'
echo ''
echo 'Please drop the broken QT7 file into this window and press return:'
while read; do
# trim the filename
FILE=$(echo "$REPLY"| sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//')
# check if the file exists
if [ -f "$FILE" ]; then
break
else
echo "Can't read this file. Please drop a valid one."
echo "'$FILE'"
fi
done
# check if there are EAs
echo ""
LINES=$(xattr -l "$FILE"|wc -l)
if [ "$LINES" -eq "0" ]; then
echo "Can't fix this file"
echo "There are no extended attributes associated."
exit 1
fi
# now remove the EAs
echo ""
xattr -c "$FILE" &>/dev/null
echo "You can now open this file in QT7."
# create space
echo ""
Thanks to anyone that can assist me in this matter. Cheers