Citidisk, recording "one file" only. Recovery possible?

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Svirfneblin

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Today I was recording a documentary with lots of crew for one day. By the end of the day we discovered that we only had one clip, the last.

I found out on shining's FAQ that I probably have not used that "Quick Erase" enoung and reached some absurd naming limit of 900 so it doesnt makes all new clips with the same name. It has been working flawlessly untill now and I never suspected anything.

Is it possible to retrive the lost clips? It seemed to work properly, the hd-warning lit up after several hours of use so it seemed to be filling up with something.

Using File Recovery I recovered several large files with the weird extensions .gdi .gz .jls .sgi and some .txt

Is there anyone who knows how this works? Can I convert the weird files to some normal format and is there any hope that they are the ones from today?

This is surch a disaster for me and for the entire production... I really appreciate any information that could help.

Regards,
Robin Nilsson
 
Sorry to hear about your issues with the citidisk. I can't solve your problem but in the future you may want to consider many of the negative reviews of the citidisk as a recording device for the HVX200. Many of those reviews can be found here on this forum. It seems the general consensus is that it just is not reliable. You would be much better off using a firestore fs100 or renting some additional cards for future shoots.

I do, however, hope you find a way to save your files from your weekend shoot. It's no fun having to shoot things twice.

Jim
 
Thanks Jim,
Yes, I will definitely not use it again in any serious context. The reviews I found before I bought it was good (should have checked here aswell).

The budget is really tight though and a reshoot will probably not be possible.

There is a good chance that the .jls files I found on the disk with File Recovery are the shoots, they are indeed some form of 1080 movies. But I can't find a way to open them or any information on how to do it...

If i find a way I will post it. And again, any help is very much appreciated!

Robin Nilsson
 
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