Re: Migration to Tiger
Re: Migration to Tiger
- Subject: Re: Migration to Tiger
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:51:11 -0600
- Thread-topic: Migration to Tiger
On 11/28/06 10:23, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
> All,
> I hope some one can enlighten me quickly, otherwise I'll be burning up
> my keyboard scripting in the next two weeks.
> I'm migrating a PrePress environment from OS 9 to Tiger (10.4.8). One
> of the 'opportunities' I'm confronting is how the finder is not recognizing
> files of the OS 9 genre (dual-forked) without a suffix. I've got gigs upon
> gigs of files that are in this format that the PrePress folks will have to
> access for years to come. I think I'm looking for a quick and easy way to
> convert these files from dual-forked to data only files on the fly. These
> files are mixed containing some multiple file types, such as PDF, tiff, eps,
> psd, txt, etc. , unfortunately, Finder sees them all as unix executables
> because they don't have suffixes, or at least, most don't.
> I can probably write something that looks at each file and
> algorithmically determines what suffix should go with it, and just rename the
> file, but that could be a bit of a bear, but if that's what I'm relegated to
> doing, sobeit..... but, thought someone on this list might know of something
> that's much more efficient and more precise than anything I might come up
> with. Any brilliant ideas?
How are you copying them over?
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