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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Classic Applications Are Documents After Tar Restore ??

CowboyHenk - Jul 26, 2005 - 4:37 am

Hi,

I have restored classic applications using tar -xvz on a new Tiger system (10.4). The applications and all related documents have an icon similar to a terminal screen (I suppose this is the default icon for "unknown" documents). If I try to start them my Mac can't find the application for the document (regardless whether Classic is running or not). Even when I boot with a System 9.2, the programs do not run (and show up with a PC/DOS icon).

The archives were created after a harddisk crash on a 10.2, when I still had some functionality, with the corresponding tar command. I have backuped and restored the Users folder successfully the same way. It seems there is no problem with the files itself (the HD problems were all in the system and could be isolated).

How do I make my files applications again (that run in Classic and start it up when necessary) ?

Thanks,

Henk

philippe99 - Jul 26, 2005 - 7:00 am

Henk
Welcome on macosx.com

My 1st reflex:
System Preferences and then click the Classic icon.
Choose Advanced tab
-> Rebuild Desktop

Does this help ?
Regards
Philippe

CowboyHenk - Jul 26, 2005 - 7:24 am

Philippe,

thank you for the suggestion. I think I may have done this already but I am not sure. I have no access to the Mac right now, but I will certainly try it tonight.

Thanks,
Henk

CowboyHenk - Jul 27, 2005 - 10:34 am

Philippe,

it didn't help. No changes. Any other suggestion ?

Thanks,
Henk

philippe99 - Jul 27, 2005 - 10:55 am

No sorry henk
As you use the tar -z syntax, I had suppose that the archive was a compressed so that the data and fork parts of the appications were saved.
So I accnot imagine why now the generic icon.

I already restore on Panther ZipIt archives of 9.x applications and I was able to run it again in the Classic environnement

Sorry for having not able to solve with you the problem.
I repool the question for further helps

Regards
Philippe

CowboyHenk - Jul 28, 2005 - 3:05 am

Philippe,

I've found the solution. As usual, it is very simple and it makes me look like a fool.

I restored the data on a brandnew firewire disk that I plugged to my Mac and, as any Mac user normally does, just started to use. After a lot of problems (including searching for help on this formum, I found out that the firewire disk was DOS formatted. I reformatted it HFS+ and everything went smooth ...

Apparently restoring data on a DOS disk (or untarring to a DOS disk) causes the ressource fork of documents (and applications) to be lost (or at least damaged or incomplete) ...

Thanks again for the help (and sorry for your time ...)

Henk

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