This past weekend, I *stealth*-recorded a short 75-minute show in NYC, of which no one else recorded of course--not even the band. 45 minutes into the recording, my batteries died. (The batteries were 2 year-old Energizer rechargables--2300 mAh). I did not notice the batteries died until about 15 minutes after it happened, when I looked at the recorder during the encore break. I immediately replaced the batteries with used Energizer Lithium Ions I had in my backpack. They powered the R-1 for the encore and for playback of the entire show on my trip home.
I am posting to find out how to rescue the .WAV file that is stuck on my compact flash card. The first file, R1_0001.WAV was finished when the batteries died. The second file, R1_0002.WAV was finished by me pressing STOP, so this file transferred perfectly via USB 2.0 I tried transferring the first file via USB 2.0 several times on my PC, then on my Mac. Each time, I received this error message:
Error Copying File or Folder
Cannot copy R1_0001: Cannot find the specified file.
Make sure you specify the correct path and file name.
The file plays back perfectly on my R-1, however. I wrote Frank at Cascade media, where I purchased my stock R-1, and he told me to transfer the audio via the optical output, or at least the analog line output. Another taper, who owns an R-1, told me to do the same, but to them run CHKDSK on the corrupted .WAV file. I did searching on google.com and found a program called Winhex used to fixed corrupted files on compact flash cards. I downoaded it, checked my two .WAV files on the CF card, but did not understand how to use it, however.
Please, if anyone knows of how to rescue or edit a corrupted .WAV file like this so that it can be transferred off the card, tell me how to do so.
Thank you,
Tom in NJ