Hard Drive Crash - FCP can't read QT files

Hey all,
I had an external drive crash but was able to save the data last year. I'm trying to revisit an old project, but FCP doesn't recognize the quicktime files.
Originally FCP wouldn't open the project file, but after doing some poking around I read that if I opened the project file in TextEdit and just hit Save, FCP would recognize it. Sure enough this worked.
But now FCP doesn't recognize the quicktime media files. I've tried to import them into a different project, but all the files are greyed out. I changed the tab to All File Types from Standard Files and selected a file, but I get the error message
1 Files Recognized, 0 Access Denied, 1 Unknown.
The files plays perfectly in Quicktime 7 and 10 though. And if I open the file in Quicktime and save as a different name or save to a different location, FCP will import it. But I'm dealing with over 100 Quicktime media files and I'm trying to avoid having to individually open each one and save to a different location (doubling the amount of hard drive space I'm using).
Any ideas?
thanks,
miguel

NLEdit wrote:
I wonder if DigitalRebellion's FCS maintenance would help this one?
I suspect it's just an issue with the type/creator codes not being set correctly. QT Repair would fix this but it'd take longer because it would be checking for other problems at the same time. I've been thinking of adding a simple type code repair for these sorts of situations though.
So you can use the above file renaming utilities to change the file extension or use something like Type and Creator Changer to change the type codes:
http://alphaomega.software.free.fr/typeandcreatorchanger/Type%20And%20Creator%20 Changer.html
(Creator should be TVOD and Type should be MooV)

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