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Easiest way I have done it is to use the utility from Dataviz on Windows
called Conversions+. What I typically do is transfer all user files to a
Zip disk. I have 2 drives, a SCSI one and a Parrallel port model (guess I
should add USB to that as well). I simply use the guest program, pop the
files onto a PC formated Zip disk fro mthe Mac, then use conversions plus on
windows to bulk transfer/rename/add extensions to the files. I then also
run a neat utility from within conversions plus that will scour a directory
for illegal names and also perform the above conversion on files. Takes
about 20 minutes in all, and I have moved several people using older Macs to
new PC's. Thankfully going the other way is MUCH simpler as you don;t have
to worry about naming and such, just the actuall move.
-mike
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> From: Romeyn Prescott
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 6:54 PM
> To: winmac@iffy.com
> Subject: [WinMac] File migration hair-pulling
>
> Hi all,
>
> In my position I (thankfully infrequently) have to assist in platform
> migrations (Mac -> Windows or Windows -> Mac). Lately (and sadly)
> I've had to do quite a few Mac -> Windows conversions. I use MacLink
> Plus translators to groom their data files. It does a wonderful job
> of dealing with FILE names, but sadly does NOTHING to check the
> validity of resultant bound-for-Windowsland FOLDER names. You be
> amazed (or maybe you wouldn't) how many Windows-illegal characters I
> run into. There's the expected "/", but I can do a Sherlock search
> for those. But what is MADDENING in nested folders containing
> hundreds of files is anything with a trailing space in the
> folder/file name which Windows positively hates.
>
> Have anyone here ever dealt with this, and if so, how have YOU dealt
> with it? I just plod through it all manually making changes. But it
> sucks. Almost anything has to be better!
>
> IS there anything?
>
> Parenthetically yours,
> ...ROMeyn
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