No known solution or software for Mac OS X can handle Clone CD images. What I’d inadvertently downloaded is what is known as a Clone CD image. I had no idea Windows used the archaic Mac. Archive Utility just wanted to compress it further.įinally I was able to unpack it with IAarchiver, slowly but certainly.Īfter unpacking, I was offered a directory with three files in it:.I’d downloaded a 600 MB disk image to use with Parallels. I hope the rather detailed explanation below will help someone else deal with a Clone CD Image faster on his Mac.
Just ran into a time consuming hiccup trying to work with a Clone CD Image.
