Convert Mac files to PC

Hardware and technical stuff
#1

I have a bunch of old files on my Mac that I want to copy over to my PC. These include files like:

System 7 Sound files
Text and Picture Clippings
Web locations (.webloc)

When I copy them to the PC, they become zero byte files, presumably because the actual content is stored in a resource fork that Windows wouldn’t understand.

Is there a free utility (Mac or PC) that can convert these files into usable documents for my PC? Mostly I’m concerned with the text and picture clippings. I could convert them manually on my Mac but there’s quite a lot of them.

Also, is there a quick way to delete all the dot files in nested folders once copied to my PC? (._filename and .DS_store)

#2

There’s no easy way to preserve the non-main fork in a way that other OSes can read it. You will have to do your conversion on the Mac beforehand.

#3

I’m not sure it works exactly the same on Windows 7, but on XP I would just perform a Search for Files and Folders. As a search string, enter “.*” (without the quotes). Delete all results after visual inspection.

#4

Aw man, thought you guys were the Mac experts. ;) I tried OS X’s Automator and it doesn’t even know a picture clipping is an image.

Thanks for the tip on getting rid of the dot files.