Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Wednesday 15.5.2024 / 12:07
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > general discussion > digital photography > help! .mov files suddenly corrupted!
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
HELP! .mov files suddenly corrupted!
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
seagrave
Member
_ 		21. October 2010 @ 22:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I bought a Canon SX130IS just before I went on vacation and I was very impressed with it... especially considering the problems I had with the older SX120IS. I shot about 18gigs of standard def video and they played fine from the SD cards. So to free the cards up I moved all the .mov files to an external drive and started to index them. The first ones played fine on VLC but I had problems with one freezing at the end. Then the rest would not play... even the first ones I updated VLC and QT and now get errors on all of them that the files are corrupted.

I tried one data recovery program on an SD card and those videos that were supposedly in fine shape don't play.

Any ideas?

BTW I exported using the card reader in my Vista PC... not using the Canon software. There's some .ctg file there in a CANONMSC folder... but it's too small to hold critical info for all 60 or so videos per card... right? I'm thinking of copying some back to the original card and trying the software.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
[ + quote]

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 21. October 2010 @ 22:17
seagrave
Member
_ 		21. October 2010 @ 23:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think my problem is bigger than I thought... or maybe not. I tried to run chkdsk on the external drive to find it's seen by Vista as a RAW drive instead of NTFS. Seems I was unfortunate enough to move these videos on to a drive that was about to croak. So I'm now looking at data recovery for what I hope are NOT corrupted files instead of fixing corrupted files. I've done data recovery before so I may be OK. Time will tell.
[ + quote]
seagrave
Member
_ 		22. October 2010 @ 22:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Whew! Yup, all the problems playing the files was because the external drive was dying. When today I was offered a chance to do a chkdsk the files played for a while then the playback problem started again. I shut it down and the second time I was only given an option to format the disk. Since the external was my old ATA drive from my old PC I installed it back in the old PC and used a data recovery program which was successful. Which is fortunate since I was NOT having any luck recovering usable files from the SD cards. For someone who usually has two backups of my files... a weekly system backup and a daily file backup, it was a stupidly careless act to not copy the files from the SD cards so there'd be redundancy.
[ + quote]
afterdawn.com > forums > general discussion > digital photography > help! .mov files suddenly corrupted!
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2024 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork