On Oct 23, 4:16 pm, chrisA <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
OS9 isn't quite vintage, vintage is more like 68k pre powerpc and the
classic compact original macs and the like (at least by these lists
categories).
The reason I say that is pertinent to my suggestion:
Have you tried Personal Web Sharing ? You can put aliases of folders
you want to share into your Web Pages ("Sites") folder on your server
and then download via a browser. This downloads by http rather than
ftp which is often better (many modern separate download helpers use
http if you like them to). If your browser is unicode aware it should
translate the names.
In OS9, there is some Unicode support but it also requires browser
support. I think though you can get 1-byte OK (no Asian characters).
Try it ? Which browsers do you have there ?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris Adams.
> ---
> The Mac SE Support Pageshttp://ccadams.org/se/
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