Hi All! I was recommended to join and ask you all by some reddit users and Joe, regarding a SyQuest Disk recovery I had attempted and see if there's any suggests on making this initial recovery work or if I should send them somewhere else.



I have a 8.5.1 Mac OS and an external SyQuest disk containing mostly old applications. I sent it off to be recovered and when I received the recovery CD back from them it was in UDF with the files split into two parts the resource forks seemed to be split and started with ._ with a modern date and then the unusable main files portions with the original dates. I haven't had any success using the CD on the old Mac, were these recovered correctly and I just need to do some steps to make them work? Or are they lost and I need to pursue another recovery method?



I have a screenshot here. - https://preview.redd.it/i46sy48cxqk...bp&s=00b235f2bd3e29060227e952a9ad7bd8206b02a8



Let me know if there's anything else I can provide to help get the answers!

That looks like the resource forks are in AppleDouble format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle_and_AppleDouble_formats). You'll need a modern-ish Mac with OSX to mount the UDF and then copy the files to a volume the old Mac can read.

>> luminescentsimian said:

That looks like the resource forks are in AppleDouble format ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle_and_AppleDouble_formats ). You'll need a modern-ish Mac with OSX to mount the UDF and then copy the files to a volume the old Mac can read. Click to expand...

So hypothetically - if I copy them to a 10.4 mac, I should be able to burn then to a Mac Extended format which would be readable by the 8.5.1 Mac? I can give it a shot!