Issues opening older sessions

Question

Hi
I have problems with logic not recognizing audio files from older (much older) then v6 sessions., in fact some of my audio files do not even look like audio, the info shows a UNIX file and it is black.
Some one just told me that it is possible that these files resided on a DOS formated hard drive in the past with the windows version of Logic or older version in general., whatever the case i need to open sessions and even after i tried using audacity to import these audio files as RAW and then create aiff files from them again logic still will not accept them., and since i heard this i looked at my 30GB of esx24 files and allot of them are also UNIX black icons and when i try to open them with the esx24 it just stalls for ages and this is own created sample library and will not load
Any help appreciated.
Cheers
Mike

Answer 1

Hi gilapuki,
Actually Logic 8 can open projects going back to Logic 5.
From page 140 of the Logic Pro 8 User Manual:
"Opening Pre Version 8 Songs
You can open Logic Pro 5, Logic Pro 6, and Logic Pro 7 songs in Logic Pro 8. When
loading a song or project created in a pre-version 8 Logic variant, the format will be
converted to the version 8 format. A Save As dialog will open, allowing you to save the
project with a new name. The original version song will be retained."
And yes that is a mistake that they refer to Logic Pro 5 as the "Pro" was not added until Apple bought emagic and released Logic Pro 6.
If you try to open a song from an earlier version it will give you an error message telling you to open it in Logic 7 and save it so it will open in Logic 8.
Cheers