[Cospefogo]

Hello Gentlemen (and eventual ladies)!

This is the situation. A relative of mine has a very old Mac, I don't know the exact model but I know he its has installed Mac OS8, maybe Mac OS9 (But I need to get confirmation). Anyway, he works with art and photography and he has created some sort of animation/video some years ago (maybe on Macromedia Director or some software like that). Then, there is a folder with the source-files and the final product of his project somewhere on his Mac, and he needs to get it OUT of there by some way.

Since this Mac is old, there is no USB support.
Also, this Mac does not have CD/DVD burning support.
And of course there is no airport or such wireless things.
If I am not wrong, the file is quite big, around 40Mb ~ 50Mb.
The only light we have on the tunnel is the network/internet connectivity!
He has internet access on this old-old-brother.

When I entered in the Apple world, it was already on 10.X. I have no deep knowledge on OS9, OS8, and specially I know nothing about old softwares for them. So, I think in ask for help here. Maybe someone kind soul can give us a light?

Here is what I could try to do if I could go personally help my relative (unfortunately I am in Brazil and he is in Sweden, ha ha!)

- Find a compressing/archiving application
- Compress/archive the file spanned in multiple volumes of 5Mb
- Log in to Gmail and upload the files there

Or even
- Make a FTP connection and upload the full file, compressed (I have FTP access, and I can grant FTP access)

But here are the traps:
- I don't know the name of a easy compressing tool (who can make multiple volumes) on Mac OS8/9
- I don't know the name of a simple-and-easy FTP program for OS8/OS9

And yes, I am aware that google can help on this search, but I know that many of you guys here have been working on Macs for your entire life, then it could be faster and simple to get some directions from here before anything else... If it is not too much for asking, of course!

Many regards,
Cospefogo.

[dedalus]

50 Mb is nothing nowadays.

Your friend could upload the files, uncompressed, to one of a growing number of multiple‑upload sites such as Sharebee or Gazup, they have file size limits of 150 Mb and 400 Mb respectively, then download them later. I’ve only used Sharebee, it works well.

Best Sites to Upload Files on Multiple Hosts

If he did want to compress the files first, there’s MacGzip, it has 4 out of 5 stars on VersionTracker with over 14,000 downloads. You drop a folder of files on it, it compresses them all individually, and you can open them with Stuffit on OS X.

MacGzip Home Page

[Cospefogo]

Oh my...
Ha ha.

Do you believe that it has not passed through my mind the online uploading websites we have nowadays? Maybe because I don't use them, I did not even think about this solution.

Thank you very much for your help, Dedalus!
Cheers,
Cospefogo.

[reader50]

If he has internet connection, does that mean he has an ethernet port? If so, connect to a router, connect a modern Mac, and turn on file sharing. Makes it much easier to check for any other old files he may want to retrieve.

[Spheric Harlot]

Another option would be to remove the internal hard drive from the old machine and stick into an IDE/ATA casing with USB or FireWire connector.

Unless it doesn't have an IDE drive, but a SCSI drive - which would make it at least fifteen years old.