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?

  • tla@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 hours ago
    #!/bin/bash

# --- Configuration ---
SOURCE_DEV="/dev/sr0"
MOUNT_POINT="/mnt/mac_legacy_cd"
DEST_DIR="$HOME/Desktop/mac_recovered_files"

# 1. Ensure the system is ready
echo "Checking for HFS support..."
sudo modprobe hfs 2>/dev/null
sudo modprobe hfsplus 2>/dev/null

# Create directories
sudo mkdir -p "$MOUNT_POINT"
mkdir -p "$DEST_DIR"

# 2. Attempt to mount
# We try HFS first with MacRoman to UTF-8 translation
echo "Attempting to mount $SOURCE_DEV..."
sudo mount -t hfs -o ro,iocharset=utf8 "$SOURCE_DEV" "$MOUNT_POINT" 2>/dev/null

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "HFS mount failed, trying HFS+ (Mac OS Extended)..."
    sudo mount -t hfsplus -o ro "$SOURCE_DEV" "$MOUNT_POINT"
fi

# 3. Verify mount and Copy
if mountpoint -q "$MOUNT_POINT"; then
    echo "Mount successful. Copying files to $DEST_DIR..."
    # -a: archive mode (preserves symlinks, permissions, times)
    # -v: verbose
    # -z: compress (not really needed for local, but good practice)
    # -P: show progress
    rsync -avzP "$MOUNT_POINT/" "$DEST_DIR/"
    
    echo "---"
    echo "Copy complete. Unmounting..."
    sudo umount "$MOUNT_POINT"
    echo "Done. You can find your files in $DEST_DIR"
else
    echo "Error: Could not mount the disc. Ensure the CD is inserted and $SOURCE_DEV is the correct path."
    exit 1
fi