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Capture File Missing
I’m wondering if anyone has any other ideas for locating missing media.
I have an hour long video captured off of a Hi8 camera (So there is no timecode for easy recapturing), I edited the entire video yesterday
and today, the file that was captured is gone. Without a trace.I captured using FCP 5.12 to an XRAID. I’ve searched all over, and it is just gone. I looked in the trash, and it’s not there, nor has the trash
been emptied in about a week.I have not altered the scratch disks at all. The only thing I did with the computer was shut it down end of day yesterday, and turn it on today.
I opened earlier versions of the project from the autosave valut, and they all link to the same missing file.Any help or ideas would be MUCH appreciated.
-Ross Hendrickson, Editor
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When you say you looked for it, do you mean you did a “find” in Finder?
Is the file referenced in the bin? Did you do a find for that exact file name,
selecting all available hard drives? Did you select “date Modified” in your drives?
If you did that and you can’t find it, it truly *is* gone (I think).
Ed -
yeah, i searched all drives, even used terminal to access the drive and check that folder.
I ended up recapturing and fidgeting with the timing and sync to make it work.
But how it went missing remains a mystery.
Any possibility that i may have a *gasp* virus or trojan horse kinda thing? I know us Mac heads don’t fathom the thought usually..
But I feel that I should look into getting the drives scanned for anything suspicious.-Ross
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