Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!cp26+ From: cp26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Thomas Parker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: MFS to HFS Message-ID: Date: 21 Oct 90 21:44:56 GMT References: <13394@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: On 19-Oct-90 in MFS to HFS user Tom Pfender@sdbio2.ucsd.edu writes: >I have a diskette created on a machine from god-knows-where and >all I know is that the files on it are MFS files. Tried using >SUM II to recover files, but it responded with dialogue box >stating "MFS recovery not supported". > >Is there a way to convert MFS to HFS?? I looked in the manuals >for Mac Utilities User's Guide and Macintosh System Software >User's Guide (Version 6.0) and they were extremely helpful >(sic)! :-) On 21-Oct-90 in Re: MFS to HFS user Vincent D. Vecchio@andrew.cmu.edu writes: >You can convert a disk from MFS to HFS by sticking the disk in the drive >and using the Finder to copy all of the files to an HFS disk. (You can >then reformat, if you want, and the old disk will be an HFS disk without >any files on it.) In their continuing quest for backward compatibility, >Apple has left the ability to understand MFS disks in the ROMs and the >Finder. So perhaps I don't understand what your problem is? The way I understand this, he's got an MFS disk that's either 1: broken or 2: that he's deleted some files from. The problem isn't existing files, it's files that are technically (at least to the finder) non-existant. Me, I'd try using MacTools from Central Point Software. This is a good general purpose program with file recovery ability. It's been around forever, so it probably supports MFS recovery. (I haven't tried it on an MFS disk in years.) Hope this helps, - Chris cp26@andrew.cmu.edu "I didn't do it... You didn't see me do it... You can't prove it."