I bought a GoFlex desktop external hard drive and when I attached to my old mac toer and transfered all my files they are all in asian text? It took all weekend to tranfer and when I attached it to my new mini allthe transfered files are in asian ... what
I bought a GoFlex desktop external hard drive and when I attached to my old mac and transfered all my files they are all in asian text? It took all weekend to transfer and when I attached it to my new mini all the transfered files are in asian ... what can I do to change them into English?
What kind of files are these?
Are the Filenames in asian also?
Can you paste some of the asian here so we can have a better guess at what's going on?
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Thanks guys for your time and for your comments in advance.
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