[DM-MUG] Transferring OS 9 documents to OSX

[Dave Weis]

Open up this directory
/Users/Roses/Documents/transferred\ data\ from\ old\ mac/beginning\ of\
civilization/Journey\ To\ the\ Center\ of\ Being
and see which icons appear

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Roses Derise wrote:

> It doesn't seem to be that straightforward.
>
> The documents are all Word files transferred from my old computer which was
> running OS 9.1.
>
> Here's what I get:
>
> Looking for an old article I had written about cults I did a spotlight
> search with the word "cults" and I get a darkened icon with this name:
>
> CULTS9~1
>
> When I clicked on it I got this:
>
>
> /Users/Roses/Documents/transferred\ data\ from\ old\ mac/beginning\ of\
> civilization/Journey\ To\ the\ Center\ of\ Being/RESOURCE.FRK/CULTS9\~1 ;
> exit;
> roses-derises-macbook-pro-15:~ Roses$ /Users/Roses/Documents/transferred\
> data\ from\ old\ mac/beginning\ of\ civilization/Journey\ To\ the\ Center\
> of\ Being/RESOURCE.FRK/CULTS9\~1 ; exit;
> -bash: /Users/Roses/Documents/transferred data from old mac/beginning of
> civilization/Journey To the Center of Being/RESOURCE.FRK/CULTS9~1: cannot
> execute binary file
> logout
>
> [Process completed]
>
>
>
> All of the old files that I had not updated before Leopard are darkened and
> up-openable like that.
>
> ???
>
>
> On 12/29/07 10:04 AM, "Darcy Baston" <darcybaston at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> If the resource fork is lost and you have a document with just a name that
>> looks like "my document" and not "my document.doc", you can probably tell OS X
>> what program to use to open it by typing a 3 character extension to the file
>> name. Do you know what application was used to create those documents?
>>
>> Darcy
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, December 29, 2007, at 09:53AM, "Roses Derise"
>> <homeonthefarm at iowatelecom.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> How do I open up or otherwise access OS 9 documents from OSX?
>>>
>>>
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