Fostex mr16 will not save songs

[bgsolo]

Hey.. I have a fostex mr16. Its been working fine until yesterday. When i try to save a new song, it overlaps and deletes the last song saved. I know i have tons of space on the drive for new recording but for some reason it just wont record a song now without deleting the last one. Please help

 

[bothee]

Hey.. I have a fostex mr16. Its been working fine until yesterday. When i try to save a new song, it overlaps and deletes the last song saved. I know i have tons of space on the drive for new recording but for some reason it just wont record a song now without deleting the last one. Please help

Sorry for resurrecting a 3+ year old post, but the same thing is happening to me---Does anybody know what would cause this/if there is a way to recover the overwritten song files? Can't find them as hidden folders or anything when looking at the drive Thanks

 

[Terfyn]

The tons of space? Were they created by "deleting" previous songs?
Have you re-formatted the disk and started from a genuinely empty disk?

I ask this because "deleting" a song does not remove the song from the disk, it only puts a delete flag on the file. The only way to free up disk space is to format the disk.

 

[bothee]

The tons of space? Were they created by "deleting" previous songs?
Have you re-formatted the disk and started from a genuinely empty disk?

I ask this because "deleting" a song does not remove the song from the disk, it only puts a delete flag on the file. The only way to free up disk space is to format the disk.

Thanks for the reply---Issue I'm having is that when I go to Song > Select Song > (New Song) it will create an empty new song but it overwrites the song in the slot I last used. For example pretend this is my list of songs:


S01: Song1
S02: Song2
S03: Song3
S04: Song4
S05: Song5
S06: Song6
---: (New Song)


If I last used S05:Song5, and then go to Song > Select Song > (New Song), it brings up the dialog prompting me to name the new song (as Song7). When I press enter to save, the new song is created, but when I go back to the select song menu, there's no record of the previous "Song5". "Song7" is now in its place and I can't locate the track files for "Song5" anywhere.


S01: Song1
S02: Song2
S03: Song3
S04: Song4
S05: Song7
S06: Song6
---: (New Song)


I'm running a data recovery tool on the drive now to see if it can locate the Song5 track files if they were deleted. Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

 

[bothee]

For anyone else experiencing this issue, a program called PhotoRec was able to recover my lost songs. Still havent figured out why the MR-16 continues to record over the same slot when trying to start a new song though.