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Accessing pictures from a Mac CD on a PC

  • 16-11-2003 4:51pm
    #1
    Lyconix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭


    A friend has been having trouble accessing a CD with pictures on it, and it probably originated from a Mac. He has a PC, and the CD shows up as blank when he opens it up.

    Is there any way to access it with a PC, or would using a Mac be the only way? And is there any way to tell whether or not the CD is Mac-originated?

    The CD shows as having a "CDFS" file system if that helps.


Comments

  • #2
    csaddict
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭csaddict


    Dunno if this is any help to you but PCs are able to read piccies off a Mac CD if all the piccies have been saved on the root level of the CD (i.e. not in a folder).

    If there are piccies on the CD but they were put in a folder, then you're probably out of luck, unless you can ask the person to re-burn the CD with the piccies on the top level.

    Sorry I couldn't be more help...


  • #3
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,128 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Err, if the CD was burnt with the HFS filesystem, its unlikely Windows can read it. However, Linux should be able to read it, and if its HFS and not HFS+, BeOS will be able to read it too.

    However, theres a chance the CD was burnt ISO-9660 (CDFS in Windows), and is just corrupted.

    Never heard of the root directory thing before, have to check with some Mac-burnt CDs I have...


  • #4
    remoteboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭remoteboy


    Try Transmac. It's shareware but it should be good for a couple of uses.


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