How to open a .UIF File

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How to open a .UIF File

Hi, I have downloaded a demo of a band that my friend plays in, but it is a .uif file. I have been told that the only program that supports it is Magic ISO (which really goes against the "Universal Image Format" that the prefix stands for) which is Windows only. Is there anything in the mac universe that will also open this file?

thanks

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Posted on Dec 21, 2007 1:59 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 21, 2007 2:41 AM in response to Neil Whitten

A quick search in Google shows that this is a Universal Image Format file which in Windows needs Magic Disk but on Macs "on a Macintosh should be handled like a DMG file."

Double click?

Or if not, press Command + i to bring up the information panel and in the "Open With" section, choose, Disk Image Mounter.

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Answer 2

Dec 23, 2007 7:17 AM in response to Graham K. Rogers

I have tried this approach but I dont seem to be able to find this Disk Image Mounter. Ive tried searching for it but no sign??

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Answer 3

Dec 23, 2007 8:31 AM in response to alexanderwalsh

Try Disk Utility. You can open a dmg file that way.

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Answer 4

Dec 23, 2007 11:02 AM in response to Graham K. Rogers

thanks
I tried opening and then selecting disk utility when it asked me to choose an app but that does not work. I also tried going File, Open Image and that does not work... any other ideas?

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Answer 5

Dec 23, 2007 6:03 PM in response to alexanderwalsh

At this stage I would be reconsidering the source of these files and (if possible) asking there.

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Answer 6

Duane

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Dec 23, 2007 6:51 PM in response to Neil Whitten

Checkout http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=381703

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Answer 7

bensbits

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Dec 23, 2007 8:37 PM in response to Neil Whitten

Hi,

Have you tried to "Convert" the image into another format through Disk Utility..?

Regards,
Ben.

Message was edited by: bensbits

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Answer 8

Dec 25, 2007 9:59 PM in response to alexanderwalsh

As another thought on this, you might try to change the application that opens the file, using Command + i then use the "Open With" button.

I suggest that the "Archive Utility" might be more suitable than Disk Utility I suggested earlier. If it does not show in the list of Applications there, its location is in System>Library>CoreServices or you may try a Spotlight search.

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Answer 9

Neil Whitten Author

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Dec 28, 2007 3:37 PM in response to Graham K. Rogers

well i have tried all that (apart from installing darwine, tried that before and just didn't understand it, never mind the fact of windows .exe's running in OSX just freaks me out)

oh well, i guess that I will just have to realise that its a windows only thing!

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Answer 10

Dec 28, 2007 5:45 PM in response to Neil Whitten

Although Duane's post implied a Windows install (via BootCamp or one of the other alternatives), you might also consider Crossover. This is a somewhat flawed, though, possible route. And if you freak out at .exe installations (I understand totally), I had IE 6 running using this method -- just as a test, mind you.

If the worst comes to the worst, you could always ask someone with a PC to open the file and save it in another format.

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Answer 11

Oscar Au

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Dec 28, 2007 6:15 PM in response to Duane

holy... this is magnificent, outrageous, indispensable information... run pc programs inside osx without having to pay for parallels or vmware fusion and windows?! any idea whether i can run ms word with this technique?

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Answer 12

Dec 29, 2007 4:49 AM in response to Oscar Au

Apparently not, just at this time, although they seem to be gathering support to make Office 2003 work. Why not simply run an application like NeoOffice and be done with the whole MS thing?

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Answer 13

Oscar Au

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Dec 29, 2007 12:14 PM in response to Graham K. Rogers

wow, crossover is very exciting indeed, but it costs money, which probably means it will fall down on the development side. the first thing that comes into mind is virus infection. is this a passport for pc virus makers to infect the mac platform? unlike bootcamp, and even vmware fusion's unity, crossover-wine makes no distinction between the mac and the pc platform. under crossover, mac is pc! and i can't find anything about how viruses act under crossover anywhere in the website.

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Answer 14

Dec 29, 2007 6:17 PM in response to Oscar Au

You say, "+crossover is very exciting indeed, but it costs money+", but then so does much of the software we use/need.

However, if it does work for a particular example of software, it is considerably less than the Windows installation that is needed with the other two-systems installations (Boot Camp, VMWare Fusion and Parallels -- the last two also cost).

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Answer 15

Devo

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Feb 28, 2008 11:26 PM in response to bensbits

Disk Utility cannot convert or open the .uif image to .iso. OSX will not open this Windows image. It does not recognise .uif as an disk image.
Toast also does not open this image either.
There is a solution using Terminal.
See:
"There is a proprietary file format coming from the windows world. It’s a disk image similar to nrg, dmg and iso. On windows you would use MagicDisk/MagicISO to access the data. If you don’t have a windows PC available I found this little tool called “uif2iso” that converts the UIF image into a standard iso " on a MAC OSX.
See the discussion at
http://vafer.org/blog/20080124001224
http://freshmeat.net/projects/uif2iso/
Hope this helps, until a GUI comes along for this tool.

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