RE: HELP - can't boot into OSX - can I restore my data from debianppc?

["Jim McLoughlin" <jimmcloughlin@earthlink.net>]

Hi

thanks for the tips

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You can 'apt-get install hfsplus', then use hpmount to "mount" the
device, and hpcp to copy critical files off the filesystem. I'm not sure
if hfsplus yet supports HFS+ writing, but for your purpose that doesn't
sound like a high priority - it'll work well enough to at least get
files _off_ it.
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I have successfully mounted my pesky osx drive, and can navigate with the
hfsplus utils.  My only problem is in copying - I can copy one file at a
time, but If I do someting like

hpcopy Documents /home/jim/macbackup

I get a message:

hpcopy: "Documents": no error (Success)
hpcopy: "hpcopy": Is a directory

and the files are not transferred.

Does this mean I have to copy one file at a time (triky for my entire mp3
archive :-), or do I have the syntax of the command wrong (I've tried a
couple of variations on this with no success).

thanks

J