File Recovery - overwritten files
Hello,
I have a project that was backed up to an external SSD drive mid-shoot and at the end of the project, the partial backup was saved over the full job inadvertently (thus overwriting the 2nd half of the shoot). Nothing was deleted. Working in capture one pro 16.4.5.29 on a MacBook pro and an external Lacie thunder drive. Shooting tethered with a Phase One IQ4.
I ran a file recovery software and was able to "recover" the whole session with additional images but the recovered session will not open (capture one shows a message that there are errors, with prompt to run repairs but the repairs fail) and even though the files are listed in finder as iiq file types with file sizes that seem appropriate, the remaining tags are blank and they will not open. I've tried to make a new session and import and this is not working either. They will also not open in Adobe Bridge.
Has anyone ever experienced this and been able to successfully open/recover their images or have any thoughts??
Thank you
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With a session, you have not lost a great deal if the session database file is unusable. The most important stuff - the images themselves, and your edits - are not stored in the session database. There's no real need even to "import' the files to the session - you can just navigate in the Library tool to the folders where they image files are, and if all is well you should see the image files.
But the question is whether the "recovered" files are truly intact. I wondered whether perhaps they weren't because you say that Adobe Bridge won't open them. However, I checked whether it would support IIQ files from the IQ4, and I see that their website says "**S14 and S14+ raw compression modes are unsupported." I don't know whether that applies to your files.
What happens you
- create a new empty session
- copy (outside of Capture One) a file or two from the recovered files into the Capture folder of the session.
Does the image show up there or not?
Ian
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I made this video a while ago that demonstrates how to recover a corrupt session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBQthXrw60
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Ian
thanks for the input,
We tried that with no success
We are going to try to take the drive to a recovery service because the received files look a little different than the original. It's almost like we need to reconnect some basic IQ info?
We used disk drill to recover the files and it found them all they just will not import.
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Even when recovery software identifies a file's storage info and the blocks on disk where the file's data was stored that doesn't guarantee that the data it finds there now is from that original file.
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