Topic: Dropped R-09. Can I salvage the file?

[stlawrence]

I was taping my buddy Justin Burke's show here on Folly Beach Wednesday night, and at the end of the show I dropped my R-09. It was resting up in the rafters on a board where I had the mics hooked up.  Everything seems to still work fine, but the batteries popped out before I stopped the recording. Now I've got a 1.6 gb wav file that won't read in iTunes, Audacity, or Quicktime. Obviously whatever it does to 'finish' the recording never happened, but the info's still got to be there due to the size, right? I'm sure this has happened before - anyone know if there's a way to salvage the recording?
Thanks!! - Stratton

[drewloo]

try cdwave.  If that doesn't work you might have a corrupted header.

[flipp]

If it is a corrupted header, try pigiron's homegrown WAVE header repair utility, available at http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,72936.0.html

[Gutbucket]

Use the built-in file repair function on the recorder-

Press 'finder' to display the list of files.
Select the file by pressing 'rec'.
Scroll down past select, info, delete, rename, move, copy..  to repair (repair only appears for damaged files)
Press 'rec' to repair the file header.

[flipp]

Use the built-in file repair function on the recorder-

Press 'finder' to display the list of files.
Select the file by pressing 'rec'.
Scroll down past select, info, delete, rename, move, copy..  to repair (repair only appears for damaged files)
Press 'rec' to repair the file header.

I wish some other manufacturers offered that as a menu item.

[SmokinJoe]

If all else fails... and the R09 can play the file, do a digi-patch over to another recorder.

[Jeremy Lykins]

Use the built-in file repair function on the recorder-

Press 'finder' to display the list of files.
Select the file by pressing 'rec'.
Scroll down past select, info, delete, rename, move, copy..  to repair (repair only appears for damaged files)
Press 'rec' to repair the file header.

That's good to know.  Thank you. 

[stevetoney]

Please report back and let us know which suggestion, if any, worked for you.

[stlawrence]

Thanks for the help with this. I'm sure it was a corrupted header, since it never saved properly. I ran the repair function on the R-09 ( I had no idea it had that - awesome), and it made it into a playable 2:24:16 wav file - the length it should have been. (It was not playing on the R-09 before either). BUT... at 0:23:34 it clips this one 1.5 second section and then repeats that in a loop for the rest of the file. The first 23 minutes are great, crisp, awesome recording, then just this weird loop of some guy in the crowd yelling, the same thing for two hours...  So it's still lost, but I learned two things about the R-09 ... repair function, and even in a case, don't drop them!
Thanks!