H4N Zoom missing files and wrong file names

[Ty Ford]

Hello John and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Hard to say, but did you format the SD card when you began the project?

Maybe old data on the card changed the order?

I’d reach out to Zoom if you’re in N. America.

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[John Brown]

Thank you, I’ll try formatting the card. Do I need to format it after every new project?

[Ty Ford]

John,

Different systems behave differently, but my pure guess, in this situation, is yes.

Remove any files you feel the need to keep and put them safely somewhere else, then reformat the drive for the new job, or use different SD cards and put a new one in and format it for the new job.

Please get back to us here to see if that solved your problem.

Regards,

Ty Ford
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[Brian Reynolds]

With the price of SD cards these days EVERY new job gets a NEW card…. 4 or 8 Gig cards are a good size, put in the recorder and format, after you get the material from them put them in storage and HOLD on to them for your atmos library.
The cost of the card / batteries should be absorbed as ‘consumables’ in any production.

A final word NEVER give the cards to the client, just like a photographer will never release the picture negatives / master files.

[Allen Cavedo]

Yes. I had a H4n for a few years. Always formatted the SD card before every new job (and set the clock). Never had any file problems. I sold it last year and replaced it with a TASCAM DR-100 mkII.

[Curt Needs]

Same thing has been happening to me. This week we’ve had two shoots. I reformatted the cards when I put them in the Zooms, and then recorded as normal. I watched the file number counting up in numerical order as we recorded. And then when I transferred them to my project files on the computer, the actual audio in each file does not correspond to the order in which we recorded them. Like the file labeled …-017.wav should actually be …-028.wav.

This is going to make sorting take almost as long as editing these videos!

I would love to hear if anyone figures out why this happens.

[John Brown]

So I haven’t figured out a fix yet, but I found the source. When you do a test, but then cancel it before you record, the next time to start up the recording, it skips the last number. Then at some point it fills in the blanks. Thad as far as I’ve gotten fam