Data Recovery issues. file structure?

[detroitdiesel]

I moved this over from general macintosh forum.

I hired a company to recover data from a crashed drive. The were able to rescue everything and even sent me a project or two to try out. Cant open them though. Unix executable files? not SD2. .rsc files as well. Anyone had a company recover data for them?

Thanks, DD

[MIDI Life Crisis]

From an earlier thread:

Turns out that re-formatting the drive plus doing all the recovery of the drive on a MAC was critical. They did need to use a boot disc with 10.4.11 on a 10.5 power book to make that work though. The new drive was formatted as OSX (Journaled) but need to be OSX Extended (Journaled) for the files to copy all the resource forks properly.

The thread: http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... executable

You'll have to wade thru some o/t crap from me about Woodstock. Sorry, but this looks like your issue and hopefully will help you with the solution.

[James Steele]

I moved this over from general macintosh forum.

Sorry... moved back to General Macintosh. This is not really a DP type topic to my mind but has to do with MACINTOSH file structure and resource forks, etc.

[detroitdiesel]

Here's a new twist.. The Data Recovery guy said to create a very simple project, zip it and email it to myself.

Lo and behold it won't open after it takes a lap around cyberspace. I hesitate to tell him.... as he thinks the whole problem is on my end.

Thought it was a whole mac/pc incompatibility issue. Am I missing something?

Thanks, DD