Hi Greg,<br><br>I guess there is hope, put it depends on your digital skills.<br><br>First, I would transfer every and anything that is on the device to a computer HDD, even deleted and hidden files. Do not edit anything on the device itself; the file might be actually there (invisible) and zou might overwrite valuable information if you try to do anything on the device.<br>
<br>For recovering deleted files I personally like to use Back2life for the Total Commander file manager, <a href="http://grandutils.com/Back2Life4TC/">http://grandutils.com/Back2Life4TC/</a>, but there are other good tools around.<br>
<br>Then you have to figure out which is the file which was created but not properly saved during the recording. The date tag may help, but also file size. I am not sure that it is the file that reports to have the size of the device itself, because what failed was the battery, not storage capacity, right? But that depends on how your device starts a new file etc.<br>
<br>Once you have the file identified, and safely saved on a normal HDD, you probably will have to fix it.<br><br>I had once a broken WAV file which would not open nor play, although the content was there.<br>One possibility to fix sich a file is to change manually the header, where the lenght (time duration) is indicated. Probably it still says "0 sec", which is why the file does not work. Using a simple text editor (but probably you will havve to use a
different editor than Notepad, which does not open very large files), find the place in the header and change the value. There are several how-to manuals around in the internet, google terms such as "fix broken wave sound file header".<br>
<br>Actually, I remember I used Soundforge for fixing the file. I just had to change the options when opening the file -- instead of opening it as a plain WAV file (which is the default, but will fail due to the wrong duration tag in the header), I opened it as a RAW SOUND FILE, if I remember it correctly (else test other possible options) -- then the header will be ignored. Saving the file back as WAV produced a clean file which would also work with other devices.<br>
Possibly, after the proper recording the file still goes on and on with other information or just white noise -- use Soundforge (or Audacity or a similar tool) to delet that final part.<br><br>For future recordings, especially when you know the batteries may fail at some point, consider configuring your device to start automatically a new sound file each X (for instance, 5) minutes, so you will loose less if everything goes wrong. The litte extra work it will take you to join the files again to one large audio file (again, with Soundforge or similar) is certainly worth it.<br>
<br>Hope that helps, good luck,<br><br>Sebastian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/28 Greg Dickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:munanga@bigpond.com">munanga@bigpond.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
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Can anyone help me?<br>
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I was using my ZoomH2 to record a long language session yesterday. The batteries died after about an hour which I didn't think was a total disaster because I thought the Zoom would save the file before it completely shutdown. But now I'm panicking slightly because the file seems to be error-ridden and untransferable. It is using up storage space (~500MB) so there is *something* there, but it doesn't playback, upload or anything else. It doesn't give a duration either (it just has 00:00:00).<br>
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Is there anything I can do or is the recording lost forever??<br>
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Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">
Greg.<br>
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