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Title: File recovery
Post by: Candace on July 09, 2017, 02:07:07 PM

Hi. Yesterday I was recording my band's show from the soundboard feed. However, at the end of the show, the engineer simply unplugged the device and the files now show 0 kb. However, under Windows properties, it shows an appropriate amount of data. IS there any way to restore that in Windows? The only thread I could find talked about it on a Mac and Audacity. I do have Wavelab 8.5; when I try to import the wav file though from the SD card it won't let me.

Title: Re: File recovery
Post by: Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B) on July 09, 2017, 03:27:06 PM

There is a data recovery section to read here:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=117279.0

Title: Re: File recovery
Post by: buckster on July 09, 2017, 05:03:46 PM

I've had this happen periodically, the latest just last week.  This YouTube video walks you through the necessary steps; so far it's always worked for me, however, your results may vary. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw5zBkoWAg8

Title: Re: File recovery
Post by: rigpimp on July 09, 2017, 05:13:06 PM

I've have had mixed results but the earliest and best success was Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS.  I am unsure if it even exists anymore.  It showed me files (That had not been written over) that I had deleted 6 months prior that I did not know I had deleted.  More recently I used Recuva which was pretty simple to use and it recovered an entire directory that I accidentally deleted.

Google is your friend.  Good luck!

Title: Re: File recovery
Post by: voltronic on July 09, 2017, 08:19:52 PM

Quote from: Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B) on July 09, 2017, 03:27:06 PM

There is a data recovery section to read here:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=117279.0

Check out the WAV header file repair utility on that page.  The symptoms described sound like this could be a corrupt file header issue, which makes sense given what caused the problem.

Title: Re: File recovery
Post by: daspyknows on July 09, 2017, 08:51:49 PM

I followed instructions using audacity and it worked.

Title: Re: File recovery
Post by: Candace on July 09, 2017, 10:53:52 PM

Quote from: buckster on July 09, 2017, 05:03:46 PM

I've had this happen periodically, the latest just last week.  This YouTube video walks you through the necessary steps; so far it's always worked for me, however, your results may vary. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw5zBkoWAg8

Thanks this worked like a charm!!!