After I upgraded my OS X Mac to Snow Leopard, I could no longer use file-sharing (Apple File Protocol) to move files to and from my old classic OS Mac to the new one. I had no problem in 10.5 Leopard, but Googling around suggests that file-sharing is over between the classic Mac OS and OS X 10.6 and up.
Apparently, the versions of Apple File Protocol that came with OS 9.1 (maybe 9.2.x also?) and earlier are too old for Snow Leopard. So I switched to FTP. After turning on the OS X FTP-server, I could connect using both Fetch and Transmit ftp clients on the old Mac. The problem is that folders and files whose names contain non-ASCII characters get mangled. At first, I found that even ampersands (&), commas and apostrophes were replaced with an underscore character. But changing the prefs in Fetch or Transmit fixed that. But I'm still left with plenty of folders and files that have non- English characters in their names. My MP3 collection is particularly hard-hit. Björk suffers, as do lots of German, Czech etc. composers. I have gigabytes of MP3s. Manually changing file and folder names is out of the question. Since file-sharing between vintage Macs and new ones seems to have reached the beginning of the end, FTP becomes crucial. But mangled file-names can make it unusable. Can anyone suggest a way to FTP files and folders from vintage Macs to OS X Macs without name corruption? Cheers, Chris Adams. --- The Mac SE Support Pages http://ccadams.org/se/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
