Reconnecting media with .mov extentions

Hi everyone, so my problem is this. I am working on a feature with a lot of media and we are trying to set up a duplicate station at the visual effects studio.
The media files were brought over on an external hard drive and copied to a PC desktop. They were then transfered to a RAID drive. Now when we try to reconnect the files from the RAID to a MAC in final cut, we can not because they all have .mov extentions on them. Is this because they were originally copied on a PC? We can reconnect the files one at a time, but this would be extreemly time consuming.
People that I have talked to are telling me that we should be able to reconnect one and the computer will reconnize the matching timecode and reconnect the rest. But this does not seem to be working. Is there a way to remedy this? Thank you so much in advance for any responses.
G5 Mac OS X (10.1.x)
G5 Mac OS X (10.1.x)

when you copied them to the PC drive the file structures changed. It's a well-documented but little-known issue. Now you know, too.
You will need to change your workflow so you do not copy from the Macintosh to the PC-formatted drive or get software that will allow you to mount the Macintosh-formatted RAID on your PC.
Or, wait! Trash the PC!
bogiesan

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