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formatting flashdrive, os9 to os x
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um...
needed to move some files (fonts, word docs, images) from an os 9 machine to os x 10.4.
got a sandisk 2gb flashdrive (it's formatted ms-dos).
copied the files.
when i plugged into the 10.4 mac, most of the files showed a "unix executable" icon.
the word docs opened (and i resaved them), but some of the images are useless (no app will recognize them; the fonts are all doa...)
ideas?
how do i format a flashdrive to work with os9 and X??
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Did you try HFS+ formatted?
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hmmm...
in disk utility (10.4.5), i have four flavors of mac os extended, ms-dos, and unix...
which one works with 9 and X?
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Mac OS X Extended *is* HFS+. It will work with both, and it's the best one to use. Try it.
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In addition, using FAT32 (MS-DOS) format on your drive will affect the resource forks of files containing one, such as some OS 9 fonts.
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Originally Posted by Nai no Kami
In addition, using FAT32 (MS-DOS) format on your drive will affect the resource forks of files containing one, such as some OS 9 fonts.
yeah, i realize this is what happened.
i used the drive out-of-the-box,
and got a lot of
FINDER.DAT
RESOURCE.FRK
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files...everywhere.
did a search for above, & deleted them all from the osx machine...whew.
anyway thanks all for help!
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Formatting it as HFS or HFS+, though, will make the flash drive unreadable on Windows PCs, which could be a hassle if you need to move files back and forth between home and school.
One workaround is to make a NDIF disk image (with extension .img - not a .dmg because OS 9 can't mount them by default). You can then mount that on the OS 9 machine, and store all your files in the disk image, and they will not lose their resource forks when you mount the .dmg in OS X.
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
Formatting it as HFS or HFS+, though, will make the flash drive unreadable on Windows PCs, which could be a hassle if you need to move files back and forth between home and school.
One workaround is to make a NDIF disk image (with extension .img - not a .dmg because OS 9 can't mount them by default). You can then mount that on the OS 9 machine, and store all your files in the disk image, and they will not lose their resource forks when you mount the .dmg in OS X.
Who cares? He wants to move files from OS 9 to OS X. HFS+ is by far the best file system for use here.
If he later wants to move files to Windoze, and go between OS X and Windoze, then reformatting as FAT32 takes about 20 seconds.
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There's always the option of creating an HFS+ disk image on a FAT disk.
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