[ale] files from a mac

[James Sumners]

I'm not sure I understand the problem. What are you using to view the
files which gives that error? Are you trying to view them directly
from the USB drive? Or are you copying them to the local machine
first?

On 10/17/07, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> a friend of mine has a folder on his Apple laptop that holds pictures,
> some text documents, etc., and asked to borrow my USB thumbdrive to move
> them from machine to machine.  only some of the files transferred, even
> after he tried it several times.
>
> it seemed like the files moved because i can see:
> filename.jpeg
> .filename.jpeg
>
> for each picture.  (it looks like one is a link to the other)
>
> also the documents show "unrecognizable" format or some such.
>
> so is it because he is moving his stuff from a Mac to a FAT32 USB Drive
> and we are viewing it on my Linux laptop?  i wouldn't have thought there
> would have been a problem, but i haven't dealt with any Apple stuff
> since the IIe.  :D
>
> thanks guys,
> Preston
>
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