Big CF card problem

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emiliobestevez

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I'm wondering if anyone can help me out with this. I put my cf card into the card reader and instead of all the newly shot footage, I got the same thumbnails of stuff from my other cf card. When I tried to open the files they wouldn't work, and then when I took it out and tried to see if it would playback in the camera a big question mark showed up saying "cannot playback movie". This is the first time it has happened and Im thankful that it didn't happen on any paid job, but I still would like to obtain the footage somehow. Any advice? Would I be able to take it to canon to retrieve the files?
 
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Are you using an Apple computer? If so, did you "eject" the old card before removing it from the reader? If not, it might be using the old alias instead of seeing the new files.

And no, I don't really know what I'm talking about here, I don't use Apple computers, but I've heard of this situation before and it sounds like it could apply.
 
Barry_Green said:
Are you using an Apple computer? If so, did you "eject" the old card before removing it from the reader? If not, it might be using the old alias instead of seeing the new files.

And no, I don't really know what I'm talking about here, I don't use Apple computers, but I've heard of this situation before and it sounds like it could apply.
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Sounds very possible. Just try a restart, with no CF card in the reader, and then put one in.

Oh, and Barry, the preferred term is "Macintosh." Saying an Apple computer makes it sound like it's the early 1980s again. :)
 
yeah thats what happened...I pulled the card out thinking my computer was off and it was just asleep....a restart didnt help....the damage was already done

right now I'm trying a sandisk card rescue program....so far its only finding the photos...I'm waiting and hoping it detects my footage
 
Just wanted to say be careful of this issue. Mac is largely based off of Unix and both Unix and Linux absolutely hate when you do not properly eject anything that is removable media. IE Flash drives, CF Cards, SD Cards and such. One easy way to fix this, assuming there is no actually file damage, is to put it in a card reader on a windows machine then try to open the footage and such and then properly eject it and try it again on your other OS's. I run into this all the time at work and on my own lol its easy to forget and it is about impossible to force mount removable media in any kind of **nix system.

If you cause damage to files the windows trick wont work, all the windows trick does is very brutally force mount it and then it will flag it as properly ejected and it should read fine. If there is file damage you need a recovery program and the good ones will cost money. Still not a bad investment if you running this stuff on a mac or Linux set up in case you forget the eject first rule (like I know I do lol).
 
Ben_B said:
Oh, and Barry, the preferred term is "Macintosh." Saying an Apple computer makes it sound like it's the early 1980s again. :)
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Yes, but I took a New Year's resolution to not use either that term, or the three-letter term for their editing program, throughout 2010. I believe that so far, I have held true to that.
 
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