LandyMan
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Erm, understood as such ... don't see the point though. From the recovery program, almost 90% of the files are useless to me now. Doubt a PPC is going to make any difference, plus, I don't have one or know anyone with one
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Erm, understood as such ... don't see the point though. From the recovery program, almost 90% of the files are useless to me now. Doubt a PPC is going to make any difference, plus, I don't have one or know anyone with one
LandyMan
Honorary Master
You used stuffitup to compress instead of the built in archive app?
Oohps
Hmm, not exactly. I used the built in Archiver, and Stuffit Expander to try and extract it again, which failed along with XP's built in expander, pkzip, pkzipfix and unarchiver.
I think it got broken with all the movement between Mac OS X and FAT32 partitions, particularly the time it bombed out 'cause of the 4Gb limitation ...
LandyMan
Honorary Master
Yeah yeah ... 'cause unzipped it was just over 25Gb iirc, it being mostly documents with alot of scope for compression
Did you consider a compressed disk image?
LandyMan
Honorary Master
Yes I did, but with my limited knowledge about Mac OS at that point in time, I decided to go for the (more known to myself) zip route ... Hindsight is always 20-20
I had a encrypted sparse image once that I used to keep my emails on - boy was that a mistake.Yes I did, but with my limited knowledge about Mac OS at that point in time, I decided to go for the (more known to myself) zip route ... Hindsight is always 20-20
I now use a normal encrypted 4gb disk image and havent had a problem yet. Also a convenient size for backing up
Apparently its a common problem with sparse images which is why I wont use File Vault.