Topic: Tascam DR-07 'file error' message

[skinnypaul]

Taping on Friday evening I noticed (an hour into the gig) that the rec button was flashing on my DR-07. The screen had a message that said something like 'file error - press play'. Pressing play didn't seem to do much. I restarted the recorder, tried again and got the same message. 

What caused this? Is it bad media?

I had a quick search of the board and can see other people making reference to the same problem on Tascam recorders but couldn't see a thread specifically explaining what causes this and how to avoid it.

Thanks in advance!

[F.O.Bean]

I bet its a bad card. What card are you using

[skinnypaul]

It's a 16Gb Sandisk card.

I *think* I used it once before (and of course testing it at home it seems to run fine!)

[skinnypaul]

Thanks for the reply BTW! 

I've emailed Tascam support - I'll see what they say.

[genesisoh]

Taping on Friday evening I noticed (an hour into the gig) that the rec button was flashing on my DR-07. The screen had a message that said something like 'file error - press play'. Pressing play didn't seem to do much. I restarted the recorder, tried again and got the same message. 

What caused this? Is it bad media?

Try doing a full (not quick) format of the card.  It should come back in about an hour with a successful format if the card is good.  My guess is that your card will either never come back or return with an error.  I have the DR-2D and had this exact problem.  

I had a quick search of the board and can see other people making reference to the same problem on Tascam recorders but couldn't see a thread specifically explaining what causes this and how to avoid it.

Thanks in advance!

[TimeBandit]

Before formatting try to rescue the recordings. insert the card at a reader on a PC and maybe usage of the WAV Header fixing tool (you find it here).

After that, full format of the card in the recorder.

[skinnypaul]

Too late!

I ran a full format on the card (took hours!) then hit record. Same problem about 90 mins in.

I'm not able to recreate the problem with the two 4Gb cards I have so I'm inclined just to right it off as a bad card.

Tascam suggesting running a system initialise (looking at the manual I think this just restored factory defaults) but as I'm running OK on the other cards I'm going to leave things as they are.

Thanks for the responses all.

[F.O.Bean]

Too late!

I ran a full format on the card (took hours!) then hit record. Same problem about 90 mins in.

I'm not able to recreate the problem with the two 4Gb cards I have so I'm inclined just to right it off as a bad card.

Tascam suggesting running a system initialise (looking at the manual I think this just restored factory defaults) but as I'm running OK on the other cards I'm going to leave things as they are.

Thanks for the responses all.

Yeah, like I said, I'd bet the farm its the card. Let us know what happens for future reference