File types spontaneously changed.

Recenty, I moved some AIFF files from my laptop to an external hard drive, to free up some space temporarily for a project.
When I moved the files back, they had been changed from AIFF files to "Source Files" and "Unix Executable Files". I have a feeling that they weren't actually changed, they were just renamed. Is there any way to rename/reclassify them?

Hi Alex,
Do the files appear as aiffs on your external drive? What is your external drive formatted as? In order to change the type, just rename the file using .aiff as the extension and that will reclassify the program that they will open with. It seems to me like your external drive may be formatted in a system that OSX does not support. Hope this helps!
--Justin S.

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