Urgent DVDA overwrote my sub-folders

CClub wrote on 5/1/2008, 5:25 PM
I know this isn't the DVDA forum, but I posted there also. I just prepared a DVDA project to a sub-folder, and it wrote in the Audio-TS and Video-TS folders, but it erased about 10-12 other sub-folders and its files that I had in that folder also. Anyone ever hear of this?? Did it rename them or are they permanently gone? Is there any way of rescuing those folders/files? They're not in my Recycle Bin.

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PeterWright wrote on 5/1/2008, 6:27 PM
This may well be a deliberate feature, and if they were the only copies of the files they may be gone.
The feature allows you to use the same prepare folder over and over again as a project is tweaked or modified. If you had a folder of additional files specified in the DVDA Properties as "Extras Folder" then any re-prepare of the same project will also include those files.

If you added them after preparing, presumably you copied them from another location, which hopefully is still there.
musicvid10 wrote on 5/1/2008, 6:56 PM
You may be able to recover them with the trial version of Directory Snoop, if they haven't been overwritten.
CClub wrote on 5/1/2008, 7:33 PM
I was able to save all the files (well, 30,866 out of 30,871, which is quite good I'd say) with data recovery software. Lesson learned. I wasn't aware that DVDA would overwrite EVERYTHING ELSE in a sub-folder. I won't be doing that again.
UlfLaursen wrote on 5/2/2008, 12:00 PM
Hi

If you do not write too much to that drive for now, you could try http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

They have a free demo and with that you can analyze the disk where the stuff is gone from, and if you can se that the program will do any good, you can buy a license. I have used it a few times.

/Ulf