I have some old HFS formatted burned CDs burning in toast on a classic mac. A friend needs his stuff moved off these backups onto his NAS but his modern mac cannot read these CDs. I can mount them in linux manually but the filenames have illegal characters so I cannot copy them over to anything without losing like half of them.

How to I copy these files off the CDs?

  • elmicha@feddit.org
    2·
    9 hours ago

    If nobody has a better idea, you could create a loop device with a HFS filesystem, copy the CD to that filesystem, replace all bad filenames, then copy everything to a normal filesystem.

    Edit: apparently there’s a --iconv option in rsync: https://askubuntu.com/a/540960

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      that looks like something I tried earlier that partially worked. It seems like for that method I need the iocharset declared at mount time and then to use rsync with the correct iconv flags