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I Salvaged Font Files Off A Mac HD, How Do I Restore Them To A New Mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 1037159" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>Yeah, you lost the resource fork.</p><p></p><p>Mac files can have multiple forks making up a file. (Actually, so can Windows files on NTFS; they're called Streams.) However, Windows Explorer only reads the primary stream, or data fork. If you use Windows Explorer to copy a file, it will strip out all the resources/streams.</p><p></p><p>Mac fonts often consist entirely of resources outside the data fork.</p><p></p><p>You need to connect the disk to a real Macintosh to recover those fonts. If you want to save them on a PC, you can pack them into a Zip archive or disk image (DMG) on the Mac first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 1037159, member: 4134"] Yeah, you lost the resource fork. Mac files can have multiple forks making up a file. (Actually, so can Windows files on NTFS; they're called Streams.) However, Windows Explorer only reads the primary stream, or data fork. If you use Windows Explorer to copy a file, it will strip out all the resources/streams. Mac fonts often consist entirely of resources outside the data fork. You need to connect the disk to a real Macintosh to recover those fonts. If you want to save them on a PC, you can pack them into a Zip archive or disk image (DMG) on the Mac first. [/QUOTE]
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