Bad Mac to PC Conversion

RewiredRewired Member
edited May 2005 in Science & Tech
Howdy folks. I need to unzip a file. The problem is it was zipped with a Mac (OSX) that I use at school but I'm home now on my PC. I need this assignment done by tomorrow morning. When I use Windows or WinRar to attempt to decompress the file it fails and says the archive is corrupt. Is there anyway in the word I can decompress this correctly in order to use these files on my PC?

Secondly, I have the same files on a DVD-R that was burned with a Mac that is also incompatible with my three PCs at home. If I can provide anymore information that may help diagnose my problem please ask. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    zip: You may have accidentally bzipped or gzipped your archive. Try messing with the file extension and see if that helps (.bz2 and .gz)

    DVD: The Mac probably formatted the DVD in one of Apple's neat filesystems (HFS+ comes to mind, though it may be some linux filesystem as well eg ext2). Look up the default settings for the burning program you used and see what filesystem it likes to make.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • tcithtcith Sydney, Australia Member
    edited May 2005
    Sorry not up on MAC OS X and unsure if they have added more zip functionality to the system.

    Those here on MAC's use stuffit to compress all their files . on PC's we need to use the PC program called Alladin expander to decompress files "zip'd" on the MAC
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    There's no "Mac ZIP and PC ZIP" - they're both the same. If it says the archive is corrupt, it probably is. Or it's not a zip.

    Open it with a text editor like wordpad and see what the first few bytes say. a lot of times it will say in plain text "ZIP" or "RAR" or something like that.

    Take the zip back to the mac. Does it still open?

    If you need the files off the DVD, download MacDrive 6. You can get a 30 day trial, that should get your disks mounted so you can work.
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited May 2005
    Hey thanks guys for your responses. I tried changing the ZIP extension to BZ2 and GZ. Both these file types we're associated with WinRAR and WinRAR found them "unknown format or damaged".

    Prime, Neither Notepad nor WordPad will open the file. It's 900 megs. Notepad says the file is too big and WordPad just brings the computer to a hault. I'm going to download MacDrive 6 now. Thanks for the suggestion and I will report back with my findings. Thx guys.
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited May 2005
    I have to keep this short cause I've got a lot of work ahead of me and I got to jump into the shower but MacDrive 6 woked splendedly. Thank you primesuspect, you've really helped a great deal. :thumbsup:

    Wednesday is my last day of school! That's until summer school starts.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    You're welcome :)
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