Ok, I download a lot of files for my SE/30 on my PC, and burn them to a CD. Uncompressed mac programs get ruined on a PC but bin, hqx, sit and other compressed types do not. Anyway if I do not have the Joliet Volume Access extension installed the files work fine with stuffit, but their file name is messed up. When I use Joliet Volume Access the files have their proper name, but stuffit reports they are corrupt. I have tried 3 versions of Joliet Volume access, the free version, the "official" release, and the latest beta, which the author has pretty much abandoned and claimed "stabe".
All 3 versions have the same problem with corrupting the files. Does anybody know how to get around and/or fix this annoying problem?
are you trying to unstuff them WHILE Joliet File Access is enabled, and DIRECTLY unstuff them; ie: clicking the files and opening them from right where they lay?
Have you tried just copying the files from the CD to your hard drive with JFA enabled, then restart without JFA and see if you can open them? Perhaps, in copying them to your hard drive, that will cement the proper file name, but without JFA on, you may still be able to open them?
What is the ultimate goal, just having the correct file names? If everything inside the archives is intact, shouldn't those filenames be fine anyway?
EDIT: oh I see, you downloaded stuff USING your PC, that you want to use on your se30. I thought you had transferred files from the SE30 to the pc for purpose of backup or something... Im tired, give me a break.
Don't know what to tell you, at that.. the last time I was using a PC to download Mac stuff was with a 486 running Win3.11, and I Was using a floppy to do the job.. that was 8.3 filenames though, and I Just dealt with it. Either make more recognizable 8.3 filenames before you burn? Are the filenames on the PC side less than the character limit on the mac? Sounds like a rather unique problem, I feel silly for trying to jump in and offer a solution now
Yes it works if I just have JVA disabled, it's just annoying to have the messed up archive names. Also, there is a rare problem I sometimes have. There are a few .sit archives that do not work when copied from my PC, but they do work when downloaded with the mac. Keep in mind plenty of other .sit archives DO work, and the one(s) that doesn't don't have weird, or long names or anything like that,
from what I remember eons back when I was still trafficking archives and stuff (I'm talking like... zip and hqx stuff on a non powermac running system 7.6.1 or something), .sit files may still have SOME important data in their resource fork.... or data fork... whichever half it is that you can see stuff with ResEdit.. that's why, unless you're downloading stuff WITH a Mac, most websites offer a .hqx or .bin alternative to the .sit archive. I realise .sit is supposed to be the same concept, but I do recall having the same kind of problem.
Does this SE30 have an ethernet card and enough ram to run a browser? It would make things much easier for you... the one I've got laying around has 7.5.3 or 7.6.1 on it, with 60-something megs of ram, and the asante PDS ethernet card... there's a low-end browser on it for direct links ot stuff, and primarilly text-based sites. It makes things much easier (and makes for a fun web-server
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Yes my SE/30 has ethernet but I like to back up the stuff I download and most things I download won't fit on floppys.