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OPEN QUICKEN NO FILES BIG BOY 03-19-2008
Posted by wbertram on March 28, 2008, 10:14 pm
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 Can the MAC OS read a hard drive formatted for a WINDOWS PC?
What file system were you using on the WINDOWS PC? NTFS or FAT32?

R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, nanox2000.
>
> Did you even try what I suggested:
> dir c:*.qdf /s/a
>
> RC

Posted by nanox2000 on March 28, 2008, 11:56 pm
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 Oilcan, I did browse around my documents folder. I didn't see
anything but I'll try to check more thoroughly.

Han, I did a very simple test. Basically, it finds everything on the
MAC. the letter "t" alone finds all files with the letter "t." As I
type more, it eliminates things, and if I type "the real kids" it
finds my mp3s by the band The Real Kids. On the old hard drive, it
finds nothing, ever. The word "the" finds nothing, the letter "t"
gives nothing, searching in a directory where I can see a file,
searching for that file name, gives nothing. * gives nothing, *.*
gives nothing, so, I am sure the finder works for MAC, but not for the
old drive.

RC, I don't see how I can do that. I am browsing from a MacBook, so I
cannot shell to DOS.

wbertram, the mac can apparently read the drive formatted for PC. I
can browse around by hand, open documents, move them to the MAC drive,
etc. However the search function of the mac does not work. File
system on windows is a good question, i have never heard of those
things and don't know. it was Windows XP if that's related.

I think I need to learn how to search this drive correctly. I can
shell to UNIX from this MAC. I can cd to my desktop which shows all
documents but not my external drives. I know minimal unix
commands... But my next guess is I should figure out how to access
this drive from the Unix prompt and try searching that way and see if
it finds anything.


Posted by Han on March 29, 2008, 7:31 am
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nanox2000@gmail.com wrote in news:3ac17fb3-b944-4d8f-a9fe-2bb8004519e1
@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

> Oilcan, I did browse around my documents folder. I didn't see
> anything but I'll try to check more thoroughly.
>
> Han, I did a very simple test. Basically, it finds everything on the
> MAC. the letter "t" alone finds all files with the letter "t." As I
> type more, it eliminates things, and if I type "the real kids" it
> finds my mp3s by the band The Real Kids. On the old hard drive, it
> finds nothing, ever. The word "the" finds nothing, the letter "t"
> gives nothing, searching in a directory where I can see a file,
> searching for that file name, gives nothing. * gives nothing, *.*
> gives nothing, so, I am sure the finder works for MAC, but not for the
> old drive.
>
> RC, I don't see how I can do that. I am browsing from a MacBook, so I
> cannot shell to DOS.
>
> wbertram, the mac can apparently read the drive formatted for PC. I
> can browse around by hand, open documents, move them to the MAC drive,
> etc. However the search function of the mac does not work. File
> system on windows is a good question, i have never heard of those
> things and don't know. it was Windows XP if that's related.
>
> I think I need to learn how to search this drive correctly. I can
> shell to UNIX from this MAC. I can cd to my desktop which shows all
> documents but not my external drives. I know minimal unix
> commands... But my next guess is I should figure out how to access
> this drive from the Unix prompt and try searching that way and see if
> it finds anything.
>
What I know from Unix (very, VERY little), you should be able to browse
other drives. At least, I could using Ubuntu booted from a CD inserted
into a PC. (Download the image and burn it to a CD, it's freeware Unix).
I don't know whether your Mac has a CD drive or not.

The last alternative is to hook up your old hard drive to the USB port of
a PC. Any PC. Also hook up a flashdrive/memory stick. Then use the PC
to roam the old hard drive using PC software. It has to work, unless
there is something kaput on the drive. What killed your old PC setup?

--
Best regards
Han
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Posted by JimH on March 29, 2008, 4:50 pm
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nanox2000@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I think I need to learn how to search this drive correctly. I can
> shell to UNIX from this MAC. I can cd to my desktop which shows all
> documents but not my external drives. I know minimal unix
> commands... But my next guess is I should figure out how to access
> this drive from the Unix prompt and try searching that way and see if
> it finds anything.
>

My UNIX skills are a little rusty, but you can try the shell command....

find /NTFS_mountpoint_name -name "*.qdf" -print

Where NTFS_mountpoint_name is the root directory of the NTFS drive where
you suspect the Quicken files reside. Changing the "*.qdf" to "*" should
find all files. Hope this helps.

--

Jim

Posted by nanox2000 on March 30, 2008, 3:07 am
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Thank you. So far I have failed at browsing this drive from UNIX,
though I will keep at it.

I like the idea of hooking it up to a Windows PC. Odd that that
didn't occur to me. It is not the best thing for me to be doing at
work, but I will certainly bring it in and give it a discreet try...

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