Font Files Changed to Unix Files

Hello all. I had backed up my fonts to an external drive. Recently my iMac's HD crashed and when I tried to reinstall my fonts, I noticed they are all Unix files with zero bytes! I can't get them to open, I tried adding the extensions they were before but nothing works. Any ideas? And how coudl this happen?
Thanks;
Henry

The real font information is stored in a resource fork, not the data fork fo the file. Depending type type of file system you copied them to, how you copied them, and what method you are using to look at them, you may not be seeing the resource fork.
You can see more detail about files usng a Terminal command such as
ls -leaO@ file
If there is a resource fork, it will be displayed.
If the file system was not a Mac OS X external file system, then you might want to look for a file with a similar name only starting with a leading period to make it invisible to the Finder
ls -leaO@ /the/directory/with/your/fonts

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