submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I have some old HFS formatted burned CDs burning in toast on a classic mac. A friend needs his stuff moved off these backups onto his NAS but his modern mac cannot read these CDs. I can mount them in linux manually but the filenames have illegal characters so I cannot copy them over to anything without losing like half of them.

How to I copy these files off the CDs?

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[–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

HFS, not HFS+. The characters are not being substituted. KDE throws errors and dies. rsync and cp fail to move all files, giving a list of things they skipped.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    nope, that didnt help. theres HFS stuff this system doesnt like so it can see things but not interact with them

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure you just have an old and degraded disc.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I spun up an old Mac running tiger and all but one cd was read fine.

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