It sounds like you've lost some information. Are the CD and USB Flash drive formatted with HFS+? You might be losing the resource fork in the transition. If possible, try creating an archive of the items on Mac OS 9 (e.g. with Stuffit) and then unstuff them on OS X. Daniel On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Simon Brown wrote: > I've only > recently upgraded to OSX and was surprised to find that all the OS9 > compiled scripts that I transfer either from CD or USB Flash drive > show up > as Terminal documents, but can't be opened with Terminal, Script > Editor or > Script Debugger. I tried using the OS9 version of Script Editor in the > Classic environment but without success. It seems that the files just > aren't recognised as valid Applescripts.