ARCHIVE CD'S

[Steve Mills]

On Mar 20, 2008, at 12:11:05, Mike Matis wrote:

> I have stack of CD's that I have archieved creator documents on.   
> Using 6.5.8 on OS9.  I have recently switched OSX and creator 8.  I  
> am no longer able to open the archive CD's.  I get a message connect  
> to server and I get some crazy server name that are usually just a  
> bunch of charaters.  I can open some of my documents on the CD's but  
> not all.


[This first paragraph was typed after I misread your message. I'll  
leave it here for educational purposes. Skip to ¶ 2 if you only care  
about a relevant answer. :)]

When you save a document that contains graphics, each graphic  
reference is stored in a few different ways; an alias to the original  
file and a document-relative path to the file are the 2 most common.  
The next time you open that document (no matter where it currently  
resides), graphics will be looked for in those same locations. If the  
original file can not be found on the original volume (with the alias  
lookup), then it tries the next best thing, which is the document- 
relative lookup. If that's not found, it will try looking in the same  
folder as the document. If it's not found there, you get the Find File  
dialog.

The "Connect to server" dialog is showing garbage volume names because  
of bugs in the OS. An alias created in OS9 is often unreadable in some  
ways in OS X. In this case, it gives us the wrong data for the volume  
name. Make sure you upgrade to 8.0.2 (you just said "8", so I'm not  
sure exactly which version you're using), which might help in some  
cases. in the long run, try hitting Yes to these dialogs and see if it  
works. If you find it doesn't, then either you don't have the original  
volume mounted, or you'll just have to hit No.

> The thumbnail of the document is "CRTR".  Does anyone have a clue?


The thumbnail is "CRTR"? A thumbnail is an image. 'Crtr' is Creator's  
4-char application signature (and case matters), and ".crtr" is the  
Creator document extension (case doesn't matter here, but nobody uses  
upper-case for extensions).

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