So my band recorded a few years ago at an awesome studio. After our final mix, it was brought to a great studio for mastering. I was told by the owner to back up all the data onto CDs (they were recorded onto a firewire drive). Are firewire drives unreliable? I tried to back the drive onto CDs but my computer says nothing is on the drive anymore! (this is on a pc) When I plugged the drive into my mac (with protools le installed) there is a digidesign databases folder... the only file I see inside is volume.ddb Any suggestions?
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Well I originally tried to back up the drive a few months after our CD was mastered. Nothing came up. I figured since I use protools now maybe I can play around with the files. Diskwarrior doesnt even pick the drive up. I'm assuming everything is gone... capacity is 80 gigs and there is 80 gigs available dang.
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And you weren't alarmed then???? The statements you are making give me the impression that you have no idea how this stuff works. Did you think once you had Protools the missing files would suddenly show up on the drive? I truly am sorry for your loss, but I feel like I feel worse about it than you do. Is your band a hobby or something you make a living from? If it's the latter, I'd be a little more concerned than "dang" indicates. There's another possibility - that the firewire case has gone bad. You could try putting it in a different case. But you aren't really giving us enough information to try and help.
allow me to ask a dumb and obvious but maybe pertinent question (how's that for a preamble)... are you sure that they gave you the right drive in the first place? all those years ago when you did not have pro tools, you still would have seen SOMETING on the drive. all the folders and the documents for the seesion even thought you would not have the icon for the pro tools sesssion. it would still say 'your band's kick ass mixes_v8.2' or whatever and look like a white/gray document.
Noone cared about the drive originally since everyone was more than happy with the final product. And yes, noone knew anything about how this stuff works (which is why it was recorded by a professional in the first place). Its by no mean a loss, its just a shame really. The band was just a hobby. We learn from our experiences
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