MacBook help with program files

[noeLAG]

I am fairly new to this forum and just bought my MacBook 2 days ago. Like the numerous stories found on this site, i was very knowledgable to windows and made that jump to apple. So for the past days I've trying to get familiar with my MAC and so far im loving it.

I have a couple questions. not sure if they are easy one liner answers but any help would be great.

Im trying to register a program on my mac. If i open the files on windows, the serial number starts with "._" and the name. so if i open it on my mac, it wont show. it is a rich text format and i renamed the file without the "._", but when i open it on the mac, it says it cannot be read. so how do i get the serial number out of that file?

my friend had given me office in an iso file. i downloaded iso and opened up a bash window. but the iso files still wont open. so im not too sure what to do


Thank you for any help.

[Makosuke]

It sounds an awful lot like you're trying to install pirated software, which may be why you haven't gotten any responses.

Presuming this is just a misunderstanding I don't have a specific answer, but the ._name files you're seeing are either resource fork or metadata files created by the MacOS on filesystems that do not support these features (which is to say Windows-standard FAT, unless you're using a network to transfer the files to an NTFS volume).

What this means is that the ._ file isn't the file--it's just filesystem extras, and in most cases contains nothing meaningful; renaming it won't make any difference. The actual file, which will not start with ._, is the one that is the file and will contain whatever info you're looking for.

[robbieduncan]

my friend had given me office in an iso file.

The only help we can give you is to suggest you go to a shop and buy a real, legal copy of Office. We cannot help you with your criminal endeavours.