Hi,
using Basilistik II with Mac OS 7.5.3 I try to restore applications coming from different medias. Some of them were copied many times between tape, cd-rom, PC, Mac !
Some are OK and work perfectly well (thanks Basilisk), other get a "document" icon. They won't launch. Finder try to find an app to launch.
Is there any chance to rescue them using Resedit ?
Thanks.
Corrupted Applications transformed to documents
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Re: Corrupted Applications transformed to documents
Depends... if they've just lost their type and creator, ResEdit can fix this (or use FileBuddy, it makes things even easier).
However, if you copied applications to non-HFS media, you've likely lost the entire resource fork, which contains pretty much all the data you need to actually do anything. This can't be fixed.
When I ran into this problem, I have to admit that in a few cases, I resorted to replacing my mangled legit copies of software with copies from elsewhere after my main HDD failed. That was back circa 1998; I learned my lesson about saving Mac files to ISO 9660 CDs without archiving first. Of course, being able to back up to multiple AFS HFS+ multiterabyte drives these days makes things much simpler. My first 350MB HDD cost a LOT of money; CD-Rs were comparatively cheap when they came out.
However, if you copied applications to non-HFS media, you've likely lost the entire resource fork, which contains pretty much all the data you need to actually do anything. This can't be fixed.
When I ran into this problem, I have to admit that in a few cases, I resorted to replacing my mangled legit copies of software with copies from elsewhere after my main HDD failed. That was back circa 1998; I learned my lesson about saving Mac files to ISO 9660 CDs without archiving first. Of course, being able to back up to multiple AFS HFS+ multiterabyte drives these days makes things much simpler. My first 350MB HDD cost a LOT of money; CD-Rs were comparatively cheap when they came out.