Hello Dennis, If your CellQuest files have "changed" to PC files you can change them back to CellQuest format with ResEdit. Just open ResEdit and then Get File/Folder info for those PC files that were CellQuest files and change the Type to BDLM and the Creator to BDLY. It is hard work if you have to change many files, let us hope that somebody has a better idea. I have once had a client that came crying to me that her CellQuest data is gone.. the problem was that her data on a FUJI ZIP disk had lost its type and creator. It happened with G3Mac CellQuest 3.1 and OS 8.5.1. I think the problem is with some incompatibility with the PC reader and ZIP formatting. The other problem.. These weird system folders on ZIP disks, I have also seen these. All data is usually on those kind of ZIPs but it is not in their original folders. I usually fish all the data to my HD and then format the ZIP and put the data back. The problem has never come back to the reformatted ZIP. (don't copy the weird system folders) Best wishes, Mika University of Turku Finland PS. You could also burn Mac/ISO hybrid CDs with your toaster and in that way save the HFS-format on the Mac half of the CD but all the data would still be readable also with PC on the other half of the CD. On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Dennis J. Young wrote: > > Re Data Archiving: > > I've been converting archived flow cyto files from PC Zip disks to CD using > a SCSI Yamaha 4x4x16 with Adaptec's Easy CD Creator. The CD's are ISO9660, > so are read cross platform, but when the CELLQuest files were archived to > PC Zips, they lost their data & resource stamps. How can I directly convert > PC files to CELLQuest format, so I can cut single-session CD's? > > Also, I wanted to try Toast on this same drive on a Quad 650, but I've just > learned that the Mac doesn't read PC Zips faithfully. Some "folders" are > mistaken as System folders with zero files! > > > ---> Dennis > > ********************************************************************** > Dennis J. Young Voice : (619) 822-0407 > Flow Cytometry Core Facility FAX : (619) 822-0412 > University of California, San Diego <mailto:djyoung@ucsd.edu> > ********************************************************************** >
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