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Archived Files Problem

peterpi

peterpi

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I have saved some stuff off my T2 onto a 2 TB, NTFS, WD, HDD. I don't remember how I got them onto the HDD but I've ended up with what you see on the screen shot below, a number of folders with misc extensions. If I add up the size of all of the other files on the drive and subtract them from the capacity I end up with about 100 GB missing, which I assume are the files in the Humax Folder.

Any idea what's going on?
T2 Screen.jpg
 
The 4 items in your screen shot are the files that make up a single Humax recording, If the Humax finds a set of 4 files like this it would normally only display "Did the Mob Kill JFK" on a single line, the .ts file is the actual video file and the other 3 are small files used by the Humax to hold bookmarks, thumbnail picture etc., these 3 small files are not normally listed 'on-screen'. Your problem seems to be that the 4 Files are being displayed as folders and not as files, but I don't know why
 
Thanks both.

Three of the folders have nothing in them. The .thm folder has two folders, (with strange names!) both of which are empty.

I get similar results when I look at the drive on a PC, although for some strange reason when I looked at the folder on one occasion, I saw about thirty .TS files (I think they were audio stuff off radio 4 extra) with the VLC road cone next to them, but now they seem to have disappeared again.

Sorry about the photo quality, but its easier than doing a screen grab ETC. :)

humax 2.jpg
 
Looks to me like the filesystem is somewhat corrupt. As it's NTFS, can you attach it to a Windows PC and do a disk check (Chkdsk) on it?
 
prpr said:
Looks to me like the filesystem is somewhat corrupt. As it's NTFS, can you attach it to a Windows PC and do a disk check (Chkdsk) on it?
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Good call, I'll give that a try and report back. Its not the end of the world if the recordings has gone, as I'll have to live until I'm two hundred to watch all the video I've got, along with the new stuff I will add to it, as well as doing all the other things I do.
 
I ran chkdsk with both options checked. It took about twelve hours and returned no errors. I may be clutching at straws, but I'll have a look at it using Linux Mint OS and see if I get any different results. I wonder if there is any other software which might do a better job of recovering the files? I might try photorec and see what happens.
 
It seems to me you needn't bother trying to use Linux tools to perform detailed file system examinations on a NTFS drive - Microsoft never released the specification into the public domain, and read/write support in Linux is a relatively recent thing based on trial and error, so it is unlikely that if Microsoft tools can't fix it anything Linux-based will.
 
Black Hole said:
It seems to me you needn't bother trying to use Linux tools to perform detailed file system examinations on a NTFS drive - Microsoft never released the specification into the public domain, and read/write support in Linux is a relatively recent thing based on trial and error, so it is unlikely that if Microsoft tools can't fix it anything Linux-based will.
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Aye, i needed someone to bring me to my senses.:)

I've had a look at the drive in a cmd window but what should be files are showing up as directories. I abandon the recovery route as they are not lost really, just corrupted. I might delete on of the ,ts folders and see it I can recover it as a .ts file. Done a bit of Googling but so far to no avail.

In future I think I'll stick to a drive which is ext formatted like I have on the Foxsat HDR.
 
I've managed to recover the "missing" files. I deleted all the .TS folders and used some free software called Testdisk from here http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and searched for .TS files. It has started to find the files I'd lost/deleted and renamed them. The ones I've found so far have played, but I had more success than I'd anticipated, and ran out of space on the recovery drive. I've now started again with a 500 Gbyte drive.

Looking at my screen shot above I wonder if the mob rubbed them out?

OK, I'll get my coat.
 
peterpi said:
I've managed to recover the "missing" files. I deleted all the .TS folders and used some free software called Testdisk from here http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and searched for .TS files. It has started to find the files I'd lost/deleted and renamed them. The ones I've found so far have played, but I had more success than I'd anticipated, and ran out of space on the recovery drive. I've now started again with a 500 Gbyte drive.

Looking at my screen shot above I wonder if the mob rubbed them out?

OK, I'll get my coat.
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My optimism was a trifle premature I'm afraid.

I have, since the above post, had time to look at the files that had been recovered, and they are files which had been deleted off the drive at some other time. So unless I can change them from folders to files I'm going to have to write them off. :(

This must be something pretty unusual, as I seem to be the only one suffering.
 
This sort of problem, which is not Humax related has turned up on a WD MyCloud NAS. Media files have gone from about 30% of the folders. All that remains is the Thumbs.db files. The rest of the folders are OK. The only common factor, as far as I'm aware, is the .ext file system. The used space on the HDD is more than it should be if they were really gone. Any further ideas please.
 
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