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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1773830" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I think we're running in circles here. Who told you to use Unarchiver and OsiriX in the first place? Even if it was the "hospital", in reality very very few have an official support route for anything outside of Windows. Whoever told you to try these things may simply taking a stab in the dark as a Mac user in their personal life who knows/heard of a few things, but hasn't actually tried it under these specific circumstances. The clerical staff who routinely make and distribute these discs aren't IT people who would even have a qualified solution. And even the IT staff in most places won't have a qualified solution outside of what they provide and support on that disc. If a tech who performs these exams told you this... again, not necessarily a qualified solution. All I and others here can vouch for is that Horos and OsiriX should be able to view the contents of that disc with no trouble or effort at all. The need for a password is clearly complicating things, and it appears that neither of these apps support viewing images embedded inside a zip file, or at least not a password-protected one. If the disc has embedded software, it certainly is designed to handle it, but doesn't do a Mac user any good, thus the need for workarounds that may not have been thoroughly vetted/tested/thought out in advance by the "hospital".</p><p> </p><p>That all said, I think we are all on the right track, but may simply not be using the Unarchiver correctly, or maybe it's just not quite the right tool. If it unzipped the "master" zip file, and gave you more zip files, then it would seem that each subset of images is in their own zip file (there are multiple "series" of images in an MRI scan, and each set is normally in its own folder on a disc, something I overlooked earlier). You can keep unzipping these sub-zip files, but this will get messy. For each sub-zip file, you may need to make sure the contents go in a folder named the same as that zip file (minus the extension) you pulled them from.</p><p></p><p>If you want to try something else to look inside that zip file, try BetterZip. It will open up the archive in a window and let you see what's inside of it. Enter the password you were provided with if/when prompted. If you are able to browse the zip file and copy anything out of it after entering the password that was provided, then we'll KNOW that the password is correct at least. You can also extract everything out by drag/drop.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Just move it to the Trash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1773830, member: 38864"] I think we're running in circles here. Who told you to use Unarchiver and OsiriX in the first place? Even if it was the "hospital", in reality very very few have an official support route for anything outside of Windows. Whoever told you to try these things may simply taking a stab in the dark as a Mac user in their personal life who knows/heard of a few things, but hasn't actually tried it under these specific circumstances. The clerical staff who routinely make and distribute these discs aren't IT people who would even have a qualified solution. And even the IT staff in most places won't have a qualified solution outside of what they provide and support on that disc. If a tech who performs these exams told you this... again, not necessarily a qualified solution. All I and others here can vouch for is that Horos and OsiriX should be able to view the contents of that disc with no trouble or effort at all. The need for a password is clearly complicating things, and it appears that neither of these apps support viewing images embedded inside a zip file, or at least not a password-protected one. If the disc has embedded software, it certainly is designed to handle it, but doesn't do a Mac user any good, thus the need for workarounds that may not have been thoroughly vetted/tested/thought out in advance by the "hospital". That all said, I think we are all on the right track, but may simply not be using the Unarchiver correctly, or maybe it's just not quite the right tool. If it unzipped the "master" zip file, and gave you more zip files, then it would seem that each subset of images is in their own zip file (there are multiple "series" of images in an MRI scan, and each set is normally in its own folder on a disc, something I overlooked earlier). You can keep unzipping these sub-zip files, but this will get messy. For each sub-zip file, you may need to make sure the contents go in a folder named the same as that zip file (minus the extension) you pulled them from. If you want to try something else to look inside that zip file, try BetterZip. It will open up the archive in a window and let you see what's inside of it. Enter the password you were provided with if/when prompted. If you are able to browse the zip file and copy anything out of it after entering the password that was provided, then we'll KNOW that the password is correct at least. You can also extract everything out by drag/drop. Just move it to the Trash. [/QUOTE]
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