Zip: IBM/MAC problem

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3 total messages Started by Peggy Bair Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00

#95

Author: Peggy Bair
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00

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Dear Friends,

Am I just the dork dinosaur or what? I finally got an internal Zip drive for
my IBM PC and after playing twister for an hour, I got it installed properly.

But now it's saying that the Zip disk I put in it (with all my stored images
from the workplace Mac) that the disk "isn't formatted" and do I want to
format it?  Grrrrr. Is it asking me to reformat it for IBM instead of Mac?

Somebody tell me there's a way to open the images on my IBM PC that I've
saved via Mac...

Other solutions?

PEGGYBAIR@AOL.com

Re: Zip: IBM/MAC problem

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Author: Raj Chawla
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 00:00

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I know that at work we have to have the ZIPs formatted for PC. They'll read
fine in the MAC, but not the other way around. Maybe I'm wrong (me-dork),
but I'm pretty sure about this.

take the zip to work, save the images on the hard drive, reformat the zip
for PC, then copy the images back, being careful to not exceed eight
characters plus an extension. for instance, photo.JPG or photo.PSD or
photo.TIF

Hope this helps!!

Raj Chawla
Staff Photographer
The Burlington (VT) Free Press

At 6:55 PM -0500 5/5/99, Peggy Bair wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>Am I just the dork dinosaur or what? I finally got an internal Zip drive for
>my IBM PC and after playing twister for an hour, I got it installed properly.
>
>But now it's saying that the Zip disk I put in it (with all my stored images
>from the workplace Mac) that the disk "isn't formatted" and do I want to
>format it?  Grrrrr. Is it asking me to reformat it for IBM instead of Mac?
>
>Somebody tell me there's a way to open the images on my IBM PC that I've
>saved via Mac...
>
>Other solutions?
>
>PEGGYBAIR@AOL.com

---
Raj Chawla <rajphoto@earthlink.net>

Re: Zip: IBM/MAC problem

#171

Author: Ted Andkilde
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 00:00

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At 07:55 PM 5/5/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>Am I just the dork dinosaur or what? I finally got an internal Zip drive for
>my IBM PC and after playing twister for an hour, I got it installed properly.
>
>But now it's saying that the Zip disk I put in it (with all my stored images
>from the workplace Mac) that the disk "isn't formatted" and do I want to
>format it?  Grrrrr. Is it asking me to reformat it for IBM instead of Mac?
>
>Somebody tell me there's a way to open the images on my IBM PC that I've
>saved via Mac...
>
>Other solutions?
>
>PEGGYBAIR@AOL.com



        There are a number of commercial apps for opening mac files on a PC.

        I've also got a shareware DOS program that I can send you if you'd like,
it's a bit of a kludge to use (it works with DOS command-line style
operations) but it does a good job.


        FWIW, if you use PC formatted disks (Zip or Floppy) they will work fine
 on
almost all Macs except for a few with older versions of Mac OS.


        Cheers, Ted

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