Grrr... not backward compatible
April 19, 2007 1:45 PM Subscribe
What's the easiest (read: quickest) way to migrate CDFinder catalogs from old power pc macs running OS 9 to OS X intel minis? I have 394 of them, and they come up as gray executable files on OS X.
Response by poster: BTW These are FindIt catalog files from the old Zip disc archival program... and CDFinder is supposed to work well with them.
posted by valkane at 2:02 PM on April 19, 2007
posted by valkane at 2:02 PM on April 19, 2007
Response by poster: CDFinder is an archive management app. We keep a lot of art on CDs and we used FindIt to keep track (catalog them).
posted by valkane at 2:04 PM on April 19, 2007
posted by valkane at 2:04 PM on April 19, 2007
CDFinder runs under OSX so I'd go ask them. You might need to pay for an upgrade or something. Your old version will not run on an intel mac.
posted by chairface at 2:24 PM on April 19, 2007
posted by chairface at 2:24 PM on April 19, 2007
Have you tried just dragging them onto the OS X version of the CDFinder application (either the Application icon itself on your hard drive, or its icon when running in your Dock)? If that doesn't work, then I think you might have to contact the manufacturer.
I think the "gray executable file" you're talking about is the icon that Mac OS X shows for a text file when it doesn't know what to make of it. It shows the generic icon for a Unix shell script (why they use that, and not the "generic white document" that was the standard in OS 9 and earlier, I have no idea). So it's not really an executable, it's just a data file.
Hopefully, if the CDFinder people maintained backwards compatibility, you should be able to Open or Import it using a new, OS X native version of the program.
posted by Kadin2048 at 7:35 PM on April 19, 2007
I think the "gray executable file" you're talking about is the icon that Mac OS X shows for a text file when it doesn't know what to make of it. It shows the generic icon for a Unix shell script (why they use that, and not the "generic white document" that was the standard in OS 9 and earlier, I have no idea). So it's not really an executable, it's just a data file.
Hopefully, if the CDFinder people maintained backwards compatibility, you should be able to Open or Import it using a new, OS X native version of the program.
posted by Kadin2048 at 7:35 PM on April 19, 2007
The OS X version of CDFinder lists 'FindIt' as one of the file-types it can import, so download that (http://www.cdfinder.de/) and it should be easy? You probably can't double-click them, but you should be able to either drag them onto the CDFinder icon, or choose "Import" from CDFinder's File menu.
posted by nowonmai at 8:42 PM on April 19, 2007
posted by nowonmai at 8:42 PM on April 19, 2007
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posted by Gungho at 2:01 PM on April 19, 2007