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Friday, October 5, 2018

Re: [Avid-L2] Desparate mac recovery question

ExFAT is not on Disk Warrior's supported file system list. Since you tried Disk Warrior, I assume you are on a Mac. You may need to move to PC to solve your problem. ExFAT is not well supported on Macs. However, since lost data on an ExFAT drive because I let Windows "repair" it… DON'T let Windows repair the disk. The Windows "repair" will make your data unusable.

FIRST! Because this is critical data, I recommend you clone your drive before doing anything else. You need to do a "sector-by-sector" or "block" or "raw" copy. I don't know if you can do this on a Mac anymore. Copies every bit on the drive, without regard to the file system, and even if that bit is marked as unused. Ideally you should clone to an identical physical drive, but this is not 100% necessarily.

Next, please consider the possibility that you haven't done what you think you did. Be 100% certain that you are looking at the right drive and that it should contain the data you want and that this data is not, in fact, elsewhere. Yes, I've seen people lose data because they thought it was corrupt when they, in fact, simply lost track of it.

Now you need software (like DiskWarrior) that is designed for ExFAT and will scan the entire drive and attempt to rebuild the directory according to the data it finds, or alternately, software that simply recovery files. It sounds like you don't actually need to rebuild the file structure. You could settle for just the intact video files.

I can't recommend specific software for this which is why you made a clone, so you can try more than once.

If this is truly critical data, considering going to a data recovery specialist. It's expensive, but sometimes it's worth it. I'd guess $500-1000.

Good Luck,

tod

On Oct 4, 2018, at 10:20 PM, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

This has not happened to me before and I'm at a loss.

An entire day's shoot on one CFast card appears to be lost. It's ProRes, recorded on BMD Ursa Mini. (Unfortunately, the person who set up the camera used ExFat, which I don't trust in Mac land.)

When swapping out the card for cloning, I failed to properly eject the previous card. Now this CF card has the PREVIOUS card's HFS+ directory, not the media I recorded on it already.

Disk Warrior does not see the old (correct) directory, simply wants to replace the directory with what's there.

Any clues/tips/special voodoo?

Of course, this is a brand new client and everything else was great. Ahrg. Seriously, this has never happened to us before.

gh

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