[Deborah Fryer]

Did that work? I am in the same boat as you were and wonder what the fix was. I tried Data Rescue. No dice. I’m running the Beta version now to see if that helps… I’ve seen recommendations for Disk Warrior, Data Rescuell and File Salvage, but haven’t tried any of them yet.., Please let me know if you found a workaround.

I kept the project files on my tower and just the media on the LaCie, so I guess worst case scenario is I could rebuild the project from scratch, and reingest all the media, but that doesn’t help me recreate all the stills, archival footage, and music that were on the drive as part of the various projects…

Thanks for your advice!
Deborah

[Deborah Fryer]

I have all my media on a LaCie 4-big 6T drive. It has been working fine for the past 9 months – and several projects. Yesterday, it wouldn’t mount. I have tried plugging it into different outlets, and it still won’t mount. I have tried plugging it into my laptop, and it still won’t mount. All the media is on a Raid 5, so there is redundant backup for a Hardware failure. I’m told by LaCie that what I’m seeing is a Software failure/corruption.

I ran Data Rescue – no luck. I’m running a beta version now of the next version of Data Rescue… holding my breath for the next 36 hours to see if that might work.

I have been told that the directory is corrupt, so that names of the source files are not recoverable. I might be able to recover the clips themselves, but the recovery software renames them 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. That’s not very helpful when final cut asks me to reconnect the media and all the source clip names are gone…

Any suggestions on how to get my media back? Any other data recovery apps to try?

I have a time machine running 24/7 backing up my tower, which is where the project file is. I had the 6T raid set up to store the media in 3 of the sectors and create a redundant backup in the 4th sector, so I thought I had my bases covered. What to do now?

Thanks in advance for your help and advice!

Deborah

[Deborah Fryer]

That is exactly how I was exporting — directly from the Timeline — File>Export>Using Quicktime Conversion. I had to go that way in order to de-interlace. Yes, the project is gfx heavy. Yes, I deleted the render cache.

The maddening this is that I have exported from this same timeline many times, including the day before when I exported a QT to take to the mix.

The way I ended up working around this for the final output to the web was using the video from the .mov I had taken to the mix the day before, since that was pix locked anyway, and then taking the stereo tracks from the mix, and putting those two things in a brand new timeline (so I ended up with 1 video track and 2 audio tracks instead of the 18 video tracks I had in the original timeline). That worked fine, although it still took 2 hours to compress a 16 minute clip.

Does HD just take a lot longer?