Thank you for your time. Getting the same result with the WIP file indicated that unpacking with GUI Tar was probably the issue. The following extracts the .bz2 on Mac (presuming the file is in Downloads). In Terminal move to Download directory with
cd ~/Downloads
To extract
tar -jxvf testdisk-7 ...
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- 27 Mar 2019, 10:50
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: How do I extract the package prior to installing on Mac?
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- 26 Mar 2019, 11:13
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: How do I extract the package prior to installing on Mac?
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Re: How do I extract the package prior to installing on Mac?
Thanks for the reply. I downloaded a fresh WIP version, but get the same Terminal message: tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'testdisk-7.1-WIP.mac_intel.tar.bz2'
Unpacking with GUI Tar opensa an empty folder called testdisk-7.1-WIP.mac_intel
Unpacking with GUI Tar opensa an empty folder called testdisk-7.1-WIP.mac_intel
- 25 Mar 2019, 23:32
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: How do I extract the package prior to installing on Mac?
- Replies: 4
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How do I extract the package prior to installing on Mac?
Excuse if this question is a duplicate, I cannot at this point search through thousands of topics. Trying to install TestDisk stable version on Mac OS 10.11. TestDisk doc doesn’t include specific command line for extracting files on Mac, so used Linux command, which returns: tar: Error opening ...