Topic: file problems....done what i know, and still wont open.

[heyitsmejess]

recorded a show saturday night....3 bands, 3 files (r1 16 bit onto a CF card).

get home, go to pull the files off and the second track (only) shows 0 bytes.

ran chkdsk, and got it to where it recognizes the size of the file.  however, i still cant open it.

was going to try fixwave, but when i open it, the window immedietly closes.

any ideas what i can do to get it working?

thanks in advance!

[heyitsmejess]

FWIW ive tried transfering directly from the card (card reader), and through the USB on the r-1

[live2496]

One thing that I have done is to ftp the file from a pocket pc. Ftp may copy the file up to the error whereas a copy utility may fail.
If you can somehow setup an ftp access to the CF card an ftp client might be a way to get it transferred.

You might also try a program like BADCOPYPRO that can do recovery of files from media like that. It works on CD's and flash media. There may be some free tools that could do that but I'm not aware of them.

[Brian Skalinder]

I'm not following -- is the problem transferring from media to computer, or opening the file residing on your computer?

Have you tried opening with CD-Wave?  It's pretty good about ignoring screwy header data that may cause problems.

[bugg100]

Try to open the file as a raw file in a DAW, Soundforge works best for this....
then if you get open, save as......

[Brian Skalinder]

Try to open the file as a raw file in a DAW, Soundforge works best for this....
then if you get open, save as......

CEP / Audition will do this, too.  Not sure about SAM (or WaveLab or Audacity), haven't tried or looked into it yet.

[heyitsmejess]

thanks for the input folks!  i will report back my results!

(i know yall are waiting on the edge of your chairs....)

[heyitsmejess]

cdwav comes up with this.

error parsing command line : no fmt descriptor

soundforge says the file is an unsupported format.

adobe audition opens it as a blank file.

BUT wavalab 5 opened it.  comes up with a dialoge about "special file format".

thanks again for the assistance!  its definetly appreciated!

[bugg100]

In soundforge you should be opening a RAW file in the file type dropdown in the open file dialog box... You will be asked about the file from there... 16 bit or 24, etc....

[live2496]

In re-reading this... if the second track had problems and you had a third track it is possible that the sectors used by the second file were overwritten by the third one. That's not certain. It's possible that the clusters used by the second file were marked as being in use. Maybe the file will be ok, but you may have to revert to some media recovery tools.

You might also have to fixup the header but that's a secondary issue and easier to remedy. Step one is going to be getting all of the data for that file copied intact to your hard drive.