Freehand in Parallels won't open files from real Snow Leopar

[gesplus]

I am doing some testing to see how Freehand will function in Snow Leopard in Parallels 9 in preparation of moving to Mavericks. Freehand opens and runs, but if I try to open any files made in FH under my regular Snow Leopard installation they are greyed out.

If I create a FH file in Parallels and try to open it in FH in regular SL same thing, using the Open command in FH the files are greyed out.

I did a get info in FH Parallels and chose Open With FH, Change All button, but no luck.

Double clicking the file opens FH but the file doesn't open.

I tried rebuilding the LaunchServices in SL in Parallels..

To add another twist, I tried the same files on another machine with Parallels and FH, now neither file will open, even the one I created on the FH installation in Parallels.

Any ideas?

Thx.

[FFH Mark]

What if you add the extension ".fh11" or ".fh10" (depending on which version of FH you are using) to all your files?

I'm not using Parallels but I found this worked when I moved to Mavericks and my files wouldn't open.

[gesplus]

Okay, that's a big nudge in the right direction. Thx. Adding .fh11 works. I can do a batch change.

It seems it has something to do with file Types not parsing in Parallels/SL.

In Parallels FileBuddy shows no Type, but it does show fh11 Creator. That's on both FH files copied to the virtual machine, and from FH files stored on the shared OS X boot disk. Inside of regular 10.9.5 OS X FileBuddy sees the Type, AGD6 on the files.

If I change the file Type of files on the virtual machine to AGD6 I get the pretty FH icon and they open fine, but we won't be storing files on the virtual machine of course.

Since parallels has a problem with file Types it seems that a .fh11 file name will be the ticket.

Thx.

[PanasonicDen]

Hi Roger.
Unplug all drives, memory, everything you can apart from video presumed on m'board? and keyboard.
See if you can get into BIOS.
Perhaps try another PSU?

Good luck, Frank, G0GSR