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copying off an CD burned on a mac long ago... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have some old HFS formatted burned CDs burning in toast on a classic mac. A friend needs his stuff moved off these backups onto his NAS but his modern mac cannot read these CDs. I can mount them in linux manually but the filenames have illegal characters so I cannot copy them over to anything without losing like half of them.

How to I copy these files off the CDs?

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you tried creating a period-accurate Mac VM, allowing passthrough of the drive peripheral to the VM, then copying the data from the VM to something like a Mac format flashdrive?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then what would read that flash drive? That doesn’t solve the problem.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was under the impression that the barrier for the friend's modern mac being unable to read the drive was due to the lack of hardware interface. Is there a greater barrier than that for the data?

If the data itself needs to be converted, consider looking for tools that can function from inside the VM (so none of the original data is lost before translation).

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

oh no, sorry, we have external CDroms. its the file names themselves. not the data within.