Comments on: Uncompress DiskDoubler Files on OS X

By: richelle booth

richelle booth — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:04:28 +0000

Thanks so much! This saved the day!!! Was at my wits end trying to open old dynamic graphics files.

By: Kah Seng

Kah Seng — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:25:16 +0000

i have images which is save in DiskDoubler as a compressed file onto a CD. How could I extract them on a PC Windows?

By: tim

tim — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:50:41 +0000

thanks! Same story as many above…

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:45:18 +0000

Yes, you must install classic (AKA Mac OS 9.2) for this tip to work.

By: noa

noa — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:00:12 +0000

hi there!,after a long time atached to my old power mac,he died.
my new mac runs macos x.4.2.
i,m having the same problem(iguess?),but after instaling dd expand.sea,a window said:classic doesn´t find any sistem file of mac os 9 in the hard disk.
it also sugest me to instal macos9.1 ,to suport classic.
it seams that the only way for me to be able to open DDExpand.sea is by instaling macos9?
i thougth it was all done,but maybe not.
thanks a lot

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:31:15 +0000

I second Sandy Smith’s earlier comments:

“Thank God for this tip, google and the internet.”

I have multiple 13+ year old files compressed with DiskDoubler that I, too, thought I would never be able to access again.

Now I have them all available.

Thanks so much!

Mark

By: Wulfmaer

Wulfmaer — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:16:10 +0000

Dude, I made my living as a tv writer in the early 90s and made extensive use of DiskDoubler. All my stories and scripts and notes and…everything, were compressed with DiskDoubler. And over the fullness of time these precious files were moved into archives and shuffled across hard disks and I moved on to OSX…and, well, you get the picture. Those old gems of mine were no longer openable. If it hadn’t been for your cool little page and Google I might not have found the DD Expander tool I needed to open those old files! Well, thanks to you and Google I did find the right tool and now all my old DiskDoubled archives have been opened and are available for reading and rewriting again! Thanks so much. You get bigtime good karma points for this!

Cheers,

Wulf

By: Emmet Cahill

Emmet Cahill — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:48:21 +0000

Anybody any idea how to expand Artpro 6 files in OSX that were disk doubled in OS9.

Any views would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Emmet.

By: Scott Wall

Scott Wall — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:27:05 +0000

Thanks for keeping these archives alive!

Very Helpful.

Kudos

By: Michael Bird

Michael Bird — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:07:58 +0000

Stumbled on you through Google just as I was getting the razor blade out of its sleeve.
Needed to access some very old DD files and get ‘em into Illustrator on System X. Done. Took about 29 seconds. Ya blood’s worth bottlin’. Thanks.