For anyone converting sessions to ProTools or any other format that uses AppleDouble files (files with a resource & data fork) read on...
AATranslator is only written in Windows so the Mac user needs to have Wine installed to run it in OSX.
AppleDouble files are written as 2 separate files on file systems that do not support multiple resource forks like FAT32. If OSX sees a file coming from such a system, it automatically puts the 2 parts back together.
Since AATranslator was developed on a fat32 system, it saves the file in 2 parts. If you run AATranslator in OSX on HFS+, since the file system is already HFS+ the automatic conversion doesn't get triggered. You must manually put the 2 files back together.
Do this:
If the 2 files are in ~/Desktop/SessionFiles
enter the following command line
$ dot_clean --keep=dotbar ~/Desktop/SessionFiles
You will now have the single AppleDouble file.
edit:
I wrote a script to attach to a folder to automate this.
the script:
on adding folder items to this_folder
do shell script ("dot_clean --keep=dotbar " & quoted form of POSIX path of this_folder)
end adding folder items to
just save the script (I named it "AppleDouble dot_clean") in /your HD/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts
create a folder to use for output from AATranslator
attach the script to said folder (it will be in the menu if you put it where I said above)
go here for instructions on folder action scripts:
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/folderactions.html
now the files are automatically joined every time new ones appear in the folder