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From: nsouza on 30 Mar 2006 23:27 I just got my new MacBook Pro and I am getting the following error when I try to open bin files. QuickTime cannot open the file: "WindowsMediaInstaller-1.bin" it is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048) Any help would be very much appreciated.
From: Gregory Weston on 31 Mar 2006 06:30 In article <200603302232388930-no(a)spaminvalid>, Babaganoosh <no(a)spam.invalid> wrote: > On 2006-03-30 22:27:00 -0600, "nsouza" <nsouza(a)gmail.com> said: > > > I just got my new MacBook Pro and I am getting the following error when > > I try to open bin files. > > > > QuickTime cannot open the file: "WindowsMediaInstaller-1.bin" > > it is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048) > > > > Any help would be very much appreciated. > > You have to have Stuffit Expander to open .bin files, don't you? Or something along those lines, yes. OP: The Macintosh file system has, since release, supported two data streams per catalog entry and the catalog entries themselves contain much more information that just about any other file system you're likely to run across. What a "bin" file is, is a header containing most of that catalog information and then the two data streams all concatenated together so the whole file can be reliably transferred through or stored on file systems that have ... sparser feature sets. I am, frankly, at a loss to understand why anyone uses it in this century because less obscure storage mechanisms that have additional benefits have been common for quite some time. But some people do it, I suppose out of either habit or outdated knowledge. This <http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/> will help. So should this: <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8522> The second is smaller and doesn't require installation, but undoing bin files is all it does while StuffIt Expander can extract information from a large number of archive and compression formats. -- "Congurutulation!!!" - The subject line on some spam I received recently. I have no idea what it means, but it's such a cool "word" (by which I mean pronouncable sequence of letters) regardless.
From: tacit on 31 Mar 2006 17:05 In article <200603302232388930-no(a)spaminvalid>, Babaganoosh <no(a)spam.invalid> wrote: > You have to have Stuffit Expander to open .bin files, don't you? Depends. The extension .bin is used in many, many different kinds of files, all of which are completely unrelated to each other. A .bin file might be a MacBinary-encoded file. Or it might be a binary ROM image file, which is often used as a firmware image for gadgets like routers and digital cameras. Or it might be a generic disk image file of some sort. Or it might be a generic binary data stream. I suspect, though, since the original poster is trying to open it using QuickTime, that it is a bin/cue file. A bin/cue file is a binary image made from a DVD or a CD; it's kind of like a disk image, but it's specific to movie or music discs and it's not mountable. Generally speaking, using a bin/cue file means writing it to a blank CD or DVD using a program that can understand and write bin/cue files. On the Mac, Toast can write a bin/cue file to a blank CD or DVD; on the PC, Nero is the preferred tool for writing bin/cue files. -- Art, photography, shareware, polyamory, literature, kink: all at http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html Nanohazard, Geek shirts, and more: http://www.villaintees.com
From: Ian Gregory on 31 Mar 2006 18:01 On 2006-03-31, tacit <tacitr(a)aol.com> wrote: > Generally speaking, using a bin/cue file means writing it to a blank CD > or DVD using a program that can understand and write bin/cue files. On > the Mac, Toast can write a bin/cue file to a blank CD or DVD; on the PC, > Nero is the preferred tool for writing bin/cue files. The server is down, but from the Google cache of: http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/10/dealing-with-bincue-files-on-a-mac/ > Once in a while you run across CD images in the format of a .bin file > and .cue file. These are CDRWin images which can't (as far as I > know) be easily read on the Mac. A little shortcut I found is to open > the .cue file with Toast as if you were going to burn it, which Toast > can do , but choose File -> Save As Disc Image instead. Toast will > prompt you for the location to save the disc image, then dump the file > there. Drop the resulting .toast file into Toast's Disc Image > section and hit Mount, and the data from the disc image (and thus the > original .bin/.cue image) will be mounted on your Mac without burning > them to a CD or DVD first. It's a bit of a long way around, but it > works, and might save you a CD-R. Somewhere I read something that suggested this can also be done under Mac OS X without using third party tools like Toast but have not found anything to substantiate that claim. If anyone wants to do any more research, try searching for "virtual cd drive" as well. Ian -- Ian Gregory http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/
From: nsouza on 3 Apr 2006 01:21 Ok, thanks for the input.
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