15
copying off an CD burned on a mac long ago... (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

If nobody has a better idea, you could create a loop device with a HFS filesystem, copy the CD to that filesystem, replace all bad filenames, then copy everything to a normal filesystem.

Edit: apparently there's a --iconv option in rsync: https://askubuntu.com/a/540960

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •