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Christoffah
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I really need help, anything is appriciated. I'm working on a solo CD, 7 songs. I went to back them up earlier today. I dragged my main directory to another folder, which moved instead of copied. I naturally pressed cancel as soon as I could because this wasn't what I wanted to do (I wanted to COPY it). As a result, my huge project folder had been split into two different places. I pressed 'undo' to fix this, but the parameter for this situation was "undo copy" (which, if you don't know, simply deletes the item in question - in this case half of the folder I wanted to backup). So basically it had now deleted a part of my huge folder of project folders. Not to recycle bin though, as I am annoyingly fond of holding shift before pressing delete to bypass the recycle bin stage.
I have a piece of software called Recover My Files, which was brilliant and I now have my files back. After putting the pieces back together, 5 of my 7 songs are working, but the remaining 2 don't work because the CPR file is "invalid". Not sure why because it was recovered, could anyone tell me why it is saying this? (I'm guessing the 5 that work were pretty much untouched, because I cancelled the aforementioned operation as soon as I knew what it was doing)
I then thought, okay my last backup was on the 24th of July, annoying but I guess that's life. When I opened backups of my now 2 damaged songs, it says that there are lots of missing files - even though my 24 July backup has had nothing to do with my huge mistake earlier. Luckily, all of the files in the backups are still where they should be - but when locating them for Cubase, it tells me that they are invalid. This is incredibly irritatingly irrelevent of Cubase to say this, and the backups of the 5 songs that were untouched just happen to load without missing files.
Please could anyone help me. I'm really angry and upset about this, especially because of the fact I could have simply waited for the whole folder to move in the first place - but no, I wanted to save myself three minutes - little did I know it would turn into 4 hours and I'm still not at the end of it.
My advice... just be patient when copying stuff.
I have a piece of software called Recover My Files, which was brilliant and I now have my files back. After putting the pieces back together, 5 of my 7 songs are working, but the remaining 2 don't work because the CPR file is "invalid". Not sure why because it was recovered, could anyone tell me why it is saying this? (I'm guessing the 5 that work were pretty much untouched, because I cancelled the aforementioned operation as soon as I knew what it was doing)
I then thought, okay my last backup was on the 24th of July, annoying but I guess that's life. When I opened backups of my now 2 damaged songs, it says that there are lots of missing files - even though my 24 July backup has had nothing to do with my huge mistake earlier. Luckily, all of the files in the backups are still where they should be - but when locating them for Cubase, it tells me that they are invalid. This is incredibly irritatingly irrelevent of Cubase to say this, and the backups of the 5 songs that were untouched just happen to load without missing files.
Please could anyone help me. I'm really angry and upset about this, especially because of the fact I could have simply waited for the whole folder to move in the first place - but no, I wanted to save myself three minutes - little did I know it would turn into 4 hours and I'm still not at the end of it.
My advice... just be patient when copying stuff.
the other one has vocal takes out of time and I'm debating whether or not to fix this, as I only have till end of month to finish (going to university). My choices are, make the intro of the song (down tuned, depressing - how I preferred it after I recorded it) the whole track to mark a short interlude for the CD (first half is hard and fast, second half is slow and soft) and then record the song again, downtuned next year acoustically... ("full band" takes far too much time")........ or spend time now getting it all back to how it was, which will add a good few days to an already demanding schedule.
