I need help with these files: .img.1 .img.2

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themacko

Barking at the moon.
Okay so my brother (who's a bit of a PC nerd) sent me a cd-rom with a bunch of files on it. He told me that I probably need to combine them. I really don't know what this is so please forgive my stupidity.

Basically on the CD are 64 files that end in
*.img.1
*.img.2
*.img.3
etc, all the way to *.img.64

I've copied all these to my hard disk and tried to open a couple, but OS X tells me it doesn't have the app that created the files. Has anyone seen this before or knows what kind of app I need to make this work?
 
I think these image files have been split for some reason -- kinda like segmenting a StuffIt file. Is there a .img file without a number on the end?

I would try opening the disk copy application, and try a mount image or convert image. Select either the .img without a number on it, or if there isn't one, select the very first sequential .img file.

If this doesn't work, try rebooting into 9 to do it and follow the same procedure.

I'm pretty sure about this being one big image that's been segmented for some reason.
 
Here's my idea (depending if each img file is quite small):

Grab yourself a copy of Toast Titanium 5.0, and a CD-RW. Basically what you want to do is burn an image of all of those images, get it? I beleive that Disk Copy also will work for this, and it may even be easier to use!

Just mess around, if all of your files are less than 12MB then you should be Ok by doing this method.

Good luck to ya!
 
All the files are 9.7 mb. I have a cd-rw on my eMac but I don't have Toast, and I'd rather not spend $100 just to get this to work. Could you maybe give me some steps on how I would go about doing this through Disk Copy?
 
The Disc Copy version in 10.2 (which I have) is a bit different from the copy in 10.1.5, so you'll have to do you're best with this. And NOTE: this may not work, since I don't own a CDRW I can't tell you if this is the exact way to do it, or if it will work at all, but anywho:

While in Disc Copy (and a blank CD in your drive) select "Burn Image" from the "File" menu, then in that window what you will need to do is try to find an area in the window that just came up where you can add files to be burned (there should be a little place to "add" or "remove" files), then hit burn.

Again: I have no clue if that works, if it doesn't or if I said it wrong then I suggest getting on Carracho or Hotline, downloading Toast and burning the files. You could always get rid of toast after this one burn. :)
 
This is common on newsgroups. Just drop the first file *.img.1 onto stuffit expander. Stuffit will join the files together.

I use the newgroups all the time and just about every mac program available on the newsgroups are split up this way.
 
Yeah, stuffit should do it - it worked for me.

If that doesn't work, you could try the command-line cat utility.

Go to the terminal and type this:
cat whatever.img.1 whatever.img.2 ... whatever.img.64 > whatever.img

There's probably some fast way of making it do all the images at once, but I'm not sure how to, so I'd just have to type all the names out individually. Of course, you have to cd to whereever the images are first, and if it's on a cd probably change the > whatever.img to > ~/whatever.img so it doesn't try to write it back to the cd.

Edit: I found an easier way to do this, but it only works if they are named .01 .02 etc. If not, it'll put them together in the wrong order.

Basically, just cd /Volumes/cdname/ then cat filename.img.* > ~/filename.img

This'll concatenate all the files together in alphabetical order and put the result in a file in your home dir. The problem is if they aren't .01 etc then, well, .img.1 comes first, then .img.10, .img.11 etc, then .img.2

I'm sure there's a way around this, but I can't see it. Anyway, stuffit's easier if it works.
 
Originally posted by themacko
All the files are 9.7 mb. I have a cd-rw on my eMac but I don't have Toast, and I'd rather not spend $100 just to get this to work. Could you maybe give me some steps on how I would go about doing this through Disk Copy?
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64 times 9.7 is 620.8. Yeah, I can understand you don't want to shell out 100$ for Toast when Jaguar is only 129$. ;)

StuffIt Expander _should_ do the trick.
 
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