app incorrectly appearing as Classic

[apple_iBoy]

Hi. I have a work-issued Intel iMac. It has a couple small apps that let me connect to certain departmental-wide shared drives. When I try to copy these apps onto my MacBook Pro, they refuse to run. Looking at the Info screen, they are both showing up as "Kind: Application (Classic)." They don't appear as Classic apps on the iMac.

Any suggestions?

 

[Teh Don Ditty]

Classic Apps are from OS 9 and earlier and they will not run on an Intel iMac running Leopard. Tiger was the last version that supported classic apps.

 

[apple_iBoy]

Classic Apps are from OS 9 and earlier and they will not run on an Intel iMac running Leopard. Tiger was the last version that supported classic apps.

I understand, Don. But as I said, these are apps that I copied over from a Intel iMac.

 

[Teh Don Ditty]

I understand, Don. But as I said, these are apps that I copied over from a Intel iMac.

Is the Intel iMac running Leopard or Tiger? What about the MBP?

 

[apple_iBoy]

Both are running the latest update to Leopard.

I could contact IT about it, but I suspect their "solution" would be to put a university OS-X image on my personal laptop.

 

[Mal]

When they were first put onto the work computer, did they require an installer? If so, you'd be better off using the installer rather than copying them over. If not, I'd simply try copying them again, it's possible you ran into an error in that process.

jW