Renaming .mov file corrupts data

Recently I used Data Rescue 2 to recover my external HDD data after an accidental partition. The result was that Data Rescue 2 found all of the video files and marked them with a generic file name in a numbered sequence. Eg: QT0023.mov, QT0024.mov ect. These files play fine in Quicktime, and once imported to iTunes also play properly. The problem is, when I rename the files in iTunes to the proper titles, the file becomes unplayable in both iTunes and by Quicktime. Quicktime reports that the file is not a movie file, while iTunes gives no error.
Anyone?

etnadan wrote:
Hello
I have one folder with several mov files each with a different name.
I also have 2 text files in the same folder.
ORIGINAL.txt file with the current mov filename in the folder.
RENAME.txt file with the replace names for each file.
Is the only content in the file the names? Are the files actually named ORIGINAL.txt and RENAME.txt?
In Terminal, if you enter: cat RENAME.txt, do you get the new filename?

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