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Projects Gone
Hello COWS
I post this forum under the most urgent situation
Last night I was trying to render, I went to bed, my LACIE froze (as its done) before… I powered down without ejecting (as I done before) because sometimes will not allow me to restart the computer b/c it says its in use (I have done this before) with no problems.
This time, I open my LACIE drive and ALL my project folders are GONE. The drive space is recovered to full. I am freaking OUT!
Where have my projects gone!? Please, please, please advice.
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3 Replies
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First off, your Project folders should never be stored on the external drives. Only the media files.
Turning off any hard drive while it’s in a frozen state is never a good thing. It has to be done sometimes, but what you describe is exactly what can happen. The fact that the drive has frozen in the past means you should have run Disc Warrior on that unit the first time it did it.
That should have also been a warning to you to back up your material on a regular basis to another drive. All hard drives will fail which is why you see so many of us tell users to run RAID 5 or if they run RAID 0, backup on a regular basis.
My only suggestion is to shut everything down. Start the Drive, Start the Mac. See if the LaCie re-sets itself. If not, download Disc Warrior and run that on the LaCie to see if it can recover the information.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[James Haefner] “my LACIE froze (as its done) before…”
I’m sorry? You’ve been having trouble with this drive, and you’ve continued to use it for critical work? That’s just asking for exactly this type of thing to happen.
You imply that your drive was acting up for some amount of time before this crash, and you did nothing to either fix it or replace it. Apple Disk Utility or Disk Warrior might have repaired the drive before it crashed.
Drives are cheap. Client goodwill and hours spent working are not. For $100-200 you could have had a backup.
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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Did you check your autosave folder?
(You DO have autosave turned on, don’t you)Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL
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