ProRes file reads Zero KB on Disk, but I know it’s there……

[Tim Jones]

Terminal is your friend here.

sudo ls -lRa /Volumes/THAT_REDACTED_VOLUME

See what the filesystem thinks is there versus Finder.

Tim
—
Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Jared Rogers]

Thanks Tim,

I should first admit I’m Terminal-ly ignorant 🙂

The result was hard for me to understand. The only reference to my file came at the end via:

-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 4294967295 nogroup 0 Jan 16 09:33 XXXX1-15-13_003_001.mov

The Xs are continuing the redacted text in the file name (for client privacy).

Does this mean anything?

[Tim Jones]

Unfortunately, it means that the file did not get written to the filesystem properly, even though the blocks were allocated. You could try a tool like Disk Warrior to reassemble the blocks (they are a linked list, so they connect to one another internally), but I wouldn’t hold out much hope.

Tim
—
Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Jared Rogers]

Thanks. Some people I’ve talked to think it may just be a missing footer on the file? This makes sense to me because it was sudden power loss that caused the corruption in the first place.

Is that something I can replace manually? I have a working file that shares the same specs.

I’ll also look into File Warrior.

[Tim Jones]

Nope, not quite that simple – you have to find the interconnected blocks first before you can place an appropriate close onto the file.

Tim
—
Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Jared Rogers]

Thanks for the help, Tim. I enlisted Treasured’s software/service (by Aero Quartet) and was able to recover everything.

For future Pix240 users who find corrupt files like this after a power failure, I recommend the following:

1.) Create .img file of entire CF card SSD (what have you)
2.) Use Treasured to run a “Deep Media Scan” of the entire thing.
3.) Use the handy slices in iPhoto to determine if your clip is there, and follow the steps Treasured recommends.

Overall cost was $299 which is I think their highest tier of service. Certainly worth it. Their tech support was also very quick when the first “repair kit” had the wrong frame rate output.

[Ken Butler]

Jared, I just contacted treasured. The empty file was not accepted
Was that your experience?
I’m hoping they will contact me with a solution.
I basically have an identical problem.
Ken

[Jared Rogers]

You need to do a “deep media scan” in their software. I remember that was the only way to find the footage.

They then work up a “repair kit” based on the clips you want to save. Spendy but worth it.

[Jibcam]

I too had the exact same problem yesterday. Lost about 65 gigs which was one long clip. First ran Prosoft’s Data Recovery and it was not found although it pulled out older QT’s that since have been erased. Just bought Disk Warrior on Sound Devices suggestion but it will not run on my MAC since it is a Windows formatted SSD drive.

Very upset with Sound Devices, I just found out last night that they just released 3.5 firmware on the 5th that can help prevent a loss but I they neglected to tell me of the available update!

Waiting to hear back from Disk Warrior as to a suggestion before I pull out even more cash.

[Nick Kontostavlakis]

hello,

I had quite a similar problem with my atomos ninja 2 record into an Evo SSD.

I mounted the drive to my Mac and it was empty.

I used Disk Drill, Ease Data Recovery, Found some files (unfortunately not the one’s I wanted) pro res, used Media Salvage to repair them .

I used terminal :

nikolaoss-imac:~ nikolaoskontostavlakis$ sudo ls -lRa /Volumes/Untitled
total 3072
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 22:35 $RECYCLE.BIN
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Jan 1 1980 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 9 root admin 306 Dec 8 11:43 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 15:10 .TemporaryItems
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .Trashes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 7 15:10 ._.TemporaryItems
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 7 10:29 ._.Trashes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 7 15:10 ._.apdisk
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 7 10:29 ._.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 308 Dec 7 15:10 .apdisk
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 10:29 .com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 8 01:09 .fseventsd
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 18:37 System Volume Information

/Volumes/Untitled/$RECYCLE.BIN:
total 768
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 22:35 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Jan 1 1980 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 129 Dec 7 22:35 desktop.ini

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100:
total 1280
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Jan 1 1980 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 Store-V1
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 Store-V2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 3996 Dec 7 10:29 VolumeConfiguration.plist

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1:
total 768
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 348 Dec 7 10:29 VolumeConfig.plist

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2:
total 768
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E:
total 18176
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 118784 Dec 8 11:43 .store.db
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 65536 Dec 7 16:40 0.directoryStoreFile
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 1088 Dec 7 16:40 0.directoryStoreFile.shadow
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 66240 Dec 7 16:40 0.indexArrays
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 8 Dec 7 16:40 0.indexCompactDirectory
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 2056 Dec 7 16:40 0.indexDirectory
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 2 Dec 8 00:43 0.indexGroups
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 8 00:43 0.indexHead
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 16 Dec 7 16:40 0.indexIds
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 8 Dec 7 16:40 0.indexPositions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 94 Dec 7 16:40 0.indexPostings
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 12 Dec 7 16:40 0.indexUpdates
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 2 Dec 8 00:43 0.shadowIndexGroups
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 8 00:43 0.shadowIndexHead
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 10:29 Cab.created
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 10:31 Cab.modified
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 10:29 Lion.created
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 28 Dec 8 01:42 indexState
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 420 Dec 8 11:44 journalAttr.11
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 10:29 journalExclusion
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.assisted_import_post
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.assisted_import_pre
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.health_check
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.live
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.live_priority
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.live_system
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.live_user
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.migration
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.migration_secondchance
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:31 journals.repair
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 journals.scan
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 65536 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.directoryStoreFile
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 1216 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.directoryStoreFile.shadow
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 69120 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.indexArrays
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 358 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.indexCompactDirectory
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 2056 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.indexDirectory
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 3277 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.indexGroups
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.indexHead
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 40 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.indexIds
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 58 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.indexPositions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 524 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.indexPostings
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.shadowIndexGroups
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 7 23:49 live.0.shadowIndexHead
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 65536 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.directoryStoreFile
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 1088 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.directoryStoreFile.shadow
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 65536 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.indexArrays
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 1024 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.indexCompactDirectory
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 8224 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.indexDirectory
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 3277 Dec 8 01:42 live.1.indexGroups
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 8 11:43 live.1.indexHead
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 32768 Dec 8 01:43 live.1.indexIds
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 8192 Dec 7 23:48 live.1.indexPositionTable
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 7 23:48 live.1.indexPositions
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.indexPostings
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 8192 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.indexTermIds
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 742 Dec 8 01:42 live.1.indexUpdates
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 65536 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.shadowIndexArrays
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 8 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.shadowIndexCompactDirectory
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 2056 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.shadowIndexDirectory
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 3 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.shadowIndexGroups
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.shadowIndexHead
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 23:48 live.1.shadowIndexPositionTable
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 400 Dec 8 00:43 live.1.shadowIndexTermIds
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 553 Dec 8 11:43 permStore
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 8192 Dec 8 00:55 psid.db
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 65536 Dec 8 00:43 reverseDirectoryStore
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 3264 Dec 7 23:49 reverseDirectoryStore.shadow
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 1 Dec 8 01:42 reverseStore.updates
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4 Dec 8 00:55 shutdown_time
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 118784 Dec 8 00:43 store.db
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 8 Dec 8 01:42 store.updates
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4 Dec 7 10:29 store_generation
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 10:29 tmp.Cab
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 10:29 tmp.Lion
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 10:29 tmp.SnowLeopard
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 10081 Dec 7 23:49 tmp.spotlight.loc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 8 11:43 tmp.spotlight.state

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.assisted_import_post:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.assisted_import_pre:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.health_check:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.live:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.live_priority:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.live_system:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.live_user:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.migration:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.migration_secondchance:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.repair:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:31 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/737F98E0-08C5-4938-BA31-57BE9BC5C62E/journals.scan:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 0 Dec 7 23:49 retire.7

/Volumes/Untitled/.TemporaryItems:
total 1024
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 15:10 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Jan 1 1980 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 4096 Dec 7 15:10 ._folders.501
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 15:10 folders.501

/Volumes/Untitled/.TemporaryItems/folders.501:
total 768
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 15:10 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 15:10 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 15:10 TemporaryItems

/Volumes/Untitled/.TemporaryItems/folders.501/TemporaryItems:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 15:10 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 15:10 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.Trashes:
total 512
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 10:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Jan 1 1980 ..

/Volumes/Untitled/.fseventsd:
total 768
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 8 01:09 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Jan 1 1980 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 36 Dec 8 11:43 fseventsd-uuid

/Volumes/Untitled/System Volume Information:
total 768
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Dec 7 18:37 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 131072 Jan 1 1980 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 _unknown _unknown 76 Dec 7 18:37 IndexerVolumeGuid

I don’t know anything about reading all these above.

any other suggestion?

thanks,
Nick