Lost Audio.....Need Help

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dastrick

huh???
So here's the deal. I was recording a live show tonight. During the recording I opened the Presonus Universal Control (stupid, I know). When I opened it Cubase basically stopped recording. I closed the Universal Control and hit record on Cubase. It started back recording with no problem. The problem is that I lost all of the tracks up to the point that I started back recording. :mad:

I can't find the lost files anywhere on the hard drive. And they don't show up in Cubase's pool. It seems like these files should be somewhere on my hard drive, right? If they are, where would they be and/or how can I recover them?


Thanks,
D
 
What platform are you on? You might try a file recovery application. Most likely, those files are on the disk, but left 'open.' A recovery app should find them and 'close' them.
 
I'm using XP Pro. Any recommendations for a file recovery program?
 
Pandora Recovery gets a lot of good reviews on cnet. Ever used it?
 
Got home this morning and tried Pandora. It found the files, but their size was 0 kb. I recovered them and they're still 0 kb.

No luck.

Any more suggestions?
 
Sorry, I'm on a mac, so no good advice for XP. It's possible that when you restarted recording, it rewrote over the sectors that had the first batch of data, so it's just gone.

Wish I had some better advice!
 
I hope the band doesn't fire you for the mishap...:spank:
 
Here's a visual of what happened. Everything between the green lines should've been one file. When it stopped recording, I lost everything that's not there now. And what's weird is that around the 4 minute mark it just changes songs in the middle of another song like it merged the files somehow. :confused:

I'm hoping that it's not gone forever, but if it is, that's just life I guess. You live and learn. :o


Good thing it wasn't a paying gig. :D
 

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