Hello again, For this problem there are utilites that do this in batch mode (change file type) like FileTyper etc, but I guess that the little utility that is on the following web page does exactly this: http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/facslab/facs.html#Mac This is the file to load... http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/facslab/software/CQAuto.sea.hqx I didn't try it (because I never have this probles in a (Mostly Mac Paradise) but it should do the job... Have fun, and thanks to Geoff Osborne ! Matthias -------------------------------- Matthias Haury Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia Rua da Quinta Grande #6 P-2781 Oeiras Portugal mhaury@igc.gulbenkian.pt >At 16:16 3/5/99 -0800, Dennis J. Young wrote: > >Dennis: > >I'm not sure I can render a working solution, but I think I can shed some >light on this... > >> >>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? > >When I went to BD, I brought some of my CQ files. I had moved them onto a >server, and FTP'ed them to my IBM desktop. When I took them to BD, sure >enough, CQ couldn't see them. > >To make it short, a quick chat with one of their software engineers >confirmed what you've said - that being the files have had their "resource >stamps" changed from Apple/Mac to IBM. The very minute the CQ files were >transferred over to an IBM formatted disk, this is changed. THE only way >we were able to convert them back such that CQ could read them again was >through (on a Mac, of course) Norton Disk Doctor within which we had to >physically change all of 2 letters and resave the file. With the correct >information, CQ was then able to read the file. The data isn't lost, just >the "covering" or "outer folder" that contains the data. > >I don't recall what the letters are but it can be easily had by using NDD >to open a CQ file and copying down the file header information. Then when >a former CQ file is opened that had been on an IBM disk, the resource >information will be slightly different. That is what needs to be changed >and only that - change anything else in the file (read: dangerous) and the >data will no longer be accessible. > >For me, that was more trouble than it was worth. So when I moved data to >my IBM it means that the only thing I can use to reanalyze will be WinMDI >and the transfer of data can only be *unidirectional*. > >>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! > >Sorry, no experience with this one... we archive to a unix server which >still retains the CQ resource information. > >It would be nice if BD could "dink" with it so that CQ could read CQ files >no matter by what means they were archived... > >Hope this helps, >David >============================= > David L. Haviland, Ph.D. > Asst. Prof. Immunology > University of Texas - Houston, H.S.C. > Institute of Molecular Medicine > 2121 W. Holcombe Blvd. > Houston, TX 77030 > Internet:"dhavilan@imm2.imm.uth.tmc.edu" > Voice: 713.500.2413 FAX: 713.500.2424 > ------------------------------------------------------ >I try to take one day at a time but lately several days >have attacked me at once! >=============================
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