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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?

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

nope, that didnt help. theres HFS stuff this system doesnt like so it can see things but not interact with them

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you just have an old and degraded disc.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I spun up an old Mac running tiger and all but one cd was read fine.

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can you just plug a USB HDD into that old Mac and copy the files over using that?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

It has usb 1, but yes that’s what I ended up doing.