pc-mac excel/works files question

[Nicole]

I'm a new Mac owner, and have recently taken on some work that
involves exchanging information between a PC running Windows 2002 with
Microsoft Works and my Mac at home, which is running OS 10.2.6 and
Office X. I don't think Works is a program that's available on Mac,
but I thought that Works files were readable in Excel, and that I
could open them on my Mac using Excel. Well, from a cd containing
Works files burned off of a PC, I am able to view nothing. In fact,
the cd icon doesn't even show up on my desktop. When I insert the
disk, I get an error message saying, "This disk contains no volumes
that Mac OS X can read," and then gives me the option of either
ejecting the disk, erasing the disk (which I can't b/c it is not
rewritable and wouldn't solve the problem anyway), or "ignoring" the
disk, in which case I can't access the files either. So, is this a
problem with the files on the disk, or is it a problem with the disk
itself (a formatting issue, perhaps? And how does one burn things on a
PC so as to make them readable on the Mac, if such is the case?) I
thought that sharing files between Macs and PC's was no big deal
anymore as long as you comply with Windows' picky file naming rules.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nicole

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi

I cured my mom's iMac of the same disk error by cleaning the read/write head
of her CD ROM drive. No guarantee, but it's likely that your disk reading
problem is being caused by a mechanical failure.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[wayne ingalls]

from a cd containing
Works files burned off of a PC, I am able to view nothing. In fact,
the cd icon doesn't even show up on my desktop. When I insert the
disk, I get an error message saying, "This disk contains no volumes
that Mac OS X can read,"

How was the CD created on the PC? I've seen a lot of people use
the packet writing feature of some CD authoring programs, then
forget to close/finish the CD. This makes them unreadable on
other PCs that don't have the same CD authoring software, as
well as unreadable on Macs. If you take it back to the PC and
can close the CD, that may be all you needed to do to read it.

hth,
-wayne

 

[Jonathan Rynd]

I've seen a lot of people use
the packet writing feature of some CD authoring programs, then
forget to close/finish the CD.

Also called "Finalizing"