[MacTUG] file converter question

[Steve Hellyer]

Hi Carlos,

Have you tried formatting a USB memory key for Fat-32 and just coping  
the files over? If yes what happened?
10.3.9 was not as strong/fast as 10.4.x and 10.5.x Mac OS X at reading  
and writing Windows Fat 16 & 32.

MS Office uses the same file format on both Mac and Windows so it  
should just open (Assuming you have current MS office on XP).
Mac OS X uses .DOC .XLS. .PPT  and for that matter file extentions  
just like Windows files do it just that they are hidden by default.

Only thing I can see which can trip you up is that Windows can't use  
* . " / \ [ ] : ; | = , in file name and as Mac OS X can't use : .
Do you have many files with those characters? Both OSes support long  
file names.

You don't say how old (versions) these files are so difficult to be  
more specific. Could these file have come from really old Mac OS 9  
version of Word/Excel?

I would just try copying files to FAT 32 formatted USB memory stick  
and then copy to Windows XP computer. See how it goes. Free to try.
If you do have many file names with character not allowed in Windows  
XP then you can use a free utility like this to copy the files to FAT  
32 volume and replace the bad characters. Mac2FAT - 2.0 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17190

Steve


On 21-Apr-08, at 4:51 PM, Carlos Mendes wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> A quick question for the MAC gurus out there…
> What is the recommended converter utility to move a large directory  
> (450MB) of mostly word and excel files (older and newer versions of  
> office)  from the MAC OS X 10.3.9 to a PC with Windows XP?
>
> Ideally the converter would
> 1-      Remove unwanted characters from the file name
> 2-      Add the appropriate PC extension
> 3-      Not cost a fortune
>
> Thanks
> Carlos
>
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