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A client has sent me a Quicken file generated on a Macintosh onto a floppy formatted for a PC. The file is called RESOURCE.FRK/!MYACCOU.NTS. Is there a software program with which I can translate this file into a form that my PC version of Quicken will recognise?
- Alan Dredge


Macintosh files are more complex than PC files. Each file possesses what is called a data fork which contains the regular data like a PC file and a resource fork which can contain a whole range of related information including the file type and the file creator. On a PC formatted disk the Macintosh software PC Exchange creates a folder called RESOURCE.FRK where each file's resource fork information is stored under a file name which is the same name as the file itself. The file you have found is not the Quicken file but its resource fork. Check elsewhere on the disk for a file of the same name. The PC version of Quicken should be able to read it without any additional conversion software. If the file does not exist then the disk has somehow become corrupted and file has been lost.
- Roy Chambers


Category: Macintosh
Issue: Mar 1997
Pages: 171-172

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