[DM-MUG] Transferring OS 9 documents to OSX

[Roses Derise]

Thanks for responding but here again I am illiterate. How do I open up a
directory?




On 12/29/07 10:31 AM, "Dave Weis" <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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