awgphoto Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 Having installed Retrospect 6.1 for Mac, I find I am unable to read my previous Retrospect Express for Windows .RDB files. When I try to recreate the Catalog, I get the error message "Sorry, the file AA000000.rdb is not a catalog or is heavily damaged." How do I recreate the Catolog for my 2 Maxtor One-Touch backup drives last used before my Windows PC crashed big time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 RDB files are Windows files, not Macintosh files. The Mac can't read them http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=6008&p=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awgphoto Posted December 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 Briilliant. Thank you for the information. As an IT professional I find it astonishing that we still have incompatibilities even from a product from the same company designed to secure our data. The article contradicts itself stating that the Retrospect windows file system is compatible across multiple platforms. Therefore, why cannot the latest Mac version (6.1) not read ALL Retrospect files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 The Windows version support multiple file systems as sources during backup. The Macintosh version does not. Either way, Mac and Windows products can not read backup data from the other copy of Retrospect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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