Can I fix a corrupt Vegas file?

dirtynbl wrote on 1/14/2009, 11:22 PM
I accidentally dragged a folder into itself and somehow ended up overwriting a file with itself, but I'm not really sure how the file reverted to a version that was 6 months old.

I've "recovered" the other files in the directory. mp3s, wavs, avi's, etc. all recovered fine with my recovery program, but the veg and veg.bak of the project files did not.

Is there anything I can do?

Here are the veg and veg.bak zipped together if anyone wants to look:
http://www.bengarbe.com/corrupt.zip

Comments

kentwolf wrote on 1/15/2009, 4:07 AM
>>...ended up overwriting a file with itself...

If you overwrite something with that very something (itself), did anything really get overwritten? I do not think that is even possible.
Chienworks wrote on 1/15/2009, 4:31 AM
It should have either ended with an error and not overwritten, or should have made copies with names like "Copy of ..." in that same directory.
dirtynbl wrote on 1/15/2009, 12:36 PM
Right, I know...I have no idea what I managed to do.

Regardless, the only Vegas projects I have anywhere on my system are from almost a year ago and these corrupt files I have recovered through a Data Recovery suite.

Is there anyway to get corrupt vegas files, specifically the ones I linked above, to run?

Also, I should note that I have checked the autosave directory and there's two Vegas files in there, but neither is the project I've been working on.
dirtynbl wrote on 1/18/2009, 6:41 PM
anything?
rs170a wrote on 1/18/2009, 6:44 PM
Try contacting tech support (link is in the Support section at the top of this page) and see if they can help you out.

Mike
musicvid10 wrote on 1/18/2009, 7:22 PM
Yep, Mike is right.
The gurus at Sony have proven masterful, if not clairvoyant, at recovering corrupted .veg projects in the past. They are the "Harry Potter" of NLE.

Submit your problem with as much accurate background as you can provide.

One thing of which I am almost certain. If they cannot fix it, it can't be fixed.
Chienworks wrote on 1/18/2009, 7:43 PM
Well, considering that they wrote the spec for the .veg file format and the software that reads/writes those files, i would expect them to be the ones best capable of fixing them. ;)