Migrating data from MAC OS X to Windows

Hi Guys,

I hope someone can provide some advise. I have NO MAC experience so please bare with me! I need to do the following:

I have about 200GB of data on a linux box emulating a MAC server (Dont ask!) I need to copy the data to a Windows 2003 R2 server. I've been told by the person who set up the current linux box that the data has to be copied via a MAC so that the files don't loose their file associations (Not really understand this but it definitly is the case)

Problem is MAC allows files and folders to contain characters which Windows does not accept (When copying to a windows share - SMB). If I create a MAC share on the Windows box, then I can copy the data with any characters but I'm limitted to a maximum file / folder length of 28 characters which causes even more problems (AppleTalk - AFP)

Are there any programes out there like robocopy but for a MAC that will copy the data over to the Windows server and log all files which it cannot copy? I'll then try and find a program that will rename all the problem files / folders before I run the copy again.

Any ideas, sugestions would be much appreciated!

I doubt this will help much but I just experimented with a file with 242 characters in the title. If I was on the PC it wouldnt copy over to the pc but if I was on the Mac I could copy it across to the pc without a problem.

EDIT - Also - if you have access to a mac check out this automator script that makes Names Web-Friendly

This AppleScript Automator Action will change the names of the selected files to make them more web-friendly. Uppercase letters are made lowercase; spaces and most special characters are converted to underscores. Successive underscores are removed.

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It might do the trick too.

bwana v.16 said:

I doubt this will help much but I just experimented with a file with 242 characters in the title. If I was on the PC it wouldnt copy over to the pc but if I was on the Mac I could copy it across to the pc without a problem.

EDIT - Also - if you have access to a mac check out this automator script that makes Names Web-Friendlyhttp://mac.softpedia.com/get/Automator-Actions---Workflows/Make-Names-Web-Friendly.shtmlIt might do the trick too.

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Thanks Bwana, will give it a try.

What filesystem is used on the linux box?