Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)

2006-03-21 Thread Paul
Antony N. Lord wrote: So I tried copying the data direct to the laptop. It seems there are some long file names that the PC doesn't like and the copy fails (a real pain half way through 30Gb). Hi Anthony If you are using Ethernet to do the above have you tried taking the files from the

Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)

2006-03-21 Thread Rod
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:56 +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: I am very patiently trying to help my sister move her 30Gb of data from an external HFS+ drive (originally used on a Mac) to her PC laptop (n, the dark side!) So far I copied the data to my G5 and reformatted the external drive

Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)

2006-03-21 Thread James Devenish
On 20/03/06, Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So then I try to be smart arse and create an uncompressed ZIP file with Stuffit. Antony, try creating an uncompressed *StuffIt* archive instead of a ZIP archive. Then, use StuffIt to expand the archive on the PC. Stuffit archive expansion is

Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)

2006-03-21 Thread Oldham, Toby
Antony, I used NameCleaner X a few years ago to transfer 10gig of Mac data to a window 200 server. It's pretty good at the whole renaming thing, but at the time tended to chug if you tried more and a gig in one sitting. http://www.sigsoftware.com/namecleaner/ Cheers, Tobes. On 21/3/06 10:32

Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)

2006-03-21 Thread wyvern
it sounds to me like you need Macdrive. allows windows machines to read mac formatted hard drives Yvonne On 21/03/2006, at 11:39 AM, Oldham, Toby wrote: Antony, I used NameCleaner X a few years ago to transfer 10gig of Mac data to a window 200 server. It's pretty good at the whole

Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)

2006-03-20 Thread Antony N. Lord
I am very patiently trying to help my sister move her 30Gb of data from an external HFS+ drive (originally used on a Mac) to her PC laptop (n, the dark side!) So far I copied the data to my G5 and reformatted the external drive on the PC (NTFS). I don't want to use FAT32... Then I