Mac Woes

[Cowboy Bob]

And in the future, get her to turn Time Machine on...

[DS23]

i wish i could get my time machine to work.

[DS23]

actually, it's not the time machine i have problems with but the time capsule. thing worked perfectly for about 4 months and then fell over in a hissy fit of backup drive permission failure. tried erasing and starting again using the various solutions proposed by apple support but still no good. that was a month ago - i must try and see if there are any new fixes...... not ideal spending all that company money on a flash backup if that dang thing won't work. i'm using big usb's in the meantime. which reminds me - i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup, i must do a backup,

[Moscow Mule]

actually, it's not the time machine i have problems with but the time capsule. thing worked perfectly for about 4 months and then fell over in a hissy fit of backup drive permission failure. tried erasing and starting again using the various solutions proposed by apple support but still no good. that was a month ago - i must try and see if there are any new fixes...... not ideal spending all that company money on a flash backup if that dang thing won't work. i'm using big usb's in the meantime. which reminds me - i must do a backup,

Never used the Time Capsule thingie, but I do use Time machine on a firewire drive & this to backup to a network drive. Seems to work so far...

[Peoplesoft bloke]

One thing that springs to mind is the question of how you are copying the Appleworks documents from the older Mac to the newer.

I believe (although I may be wrong) that Appleworks on Mac OS 9 (and below) used the resource fork of the file, which (as you probably know) is a separate stream associated with the file containing important metadata and so forth (similar to alternate streams in NTFS).

If you're transferring by copying to a USB stick or external drive, that will probably be formatted using FAT or FAT32, which will only copy the data fork and lose the resource fork, meaning the file can't be opened.

If this is the case, try attaching a USB drive and formatting it on the old Mac (HFS, I believe, is the necessary format) and copy the files to that using the Finder, then copy them off there onto the new machine. This should ensure that the resource forks also get copied.

We backed up the files to cd some time ago from the macbook(OSX). iWork wont read them, but if I load the CD into the old iMac, Appleworks reads them no problem. They were all created using Appleworks 6 - nothing earlier so according to the Apple support stuff I have found, iWork should load them, but it doesn't.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

And in the future, get her to turn Time Machine on...

Thanks, will do.

[interested]

Assume you've done the normal things like repairing permissions?

[NickFitz]

Assume you've done the normal things like repairing permissions?

waving a voodoo chicken over the keyboard

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Assume you've done the normal things like repairing permissions?

No - I cannae change the permissions on a CDR I've already burned - although I could copy the files I guess - but why would they have the wrong permissions anyway?

[NickFitz]

No - I cannae change the permissions on a CDR I've already burned - although I could copy the files I guess - but why would they have the wrong permissions anyway?

They wouldn't, and if they did, it wouldn't matter. As John Gruber explains in the article I linked to above, it's just a bit of voodoo

Insofar as the "Run Disk Utility and Fix Permissions" incantation does anything at all, it only affects system files; it has nothing to do with user data.