Heather,
Soundhack worked! I replaced the header, and then made a copy of the
file. The original would still not import into Protools, but the copy
did. So thank you very much for this advice.
Kind regards,
Andrew
> Try Tom Erbe's SoundHack. It's a free download, and has rescued many
> a file for me. You can use it to rewrite header info. It also does
> many other more festive things.
>
> Hope this helps, and you get your sounds back.
>
> - H
>
> Heather Perkins
> Sound Designer - Composer - Mad Scientist
> WaterDog Studio & Land-O-Newts! Records
>
> * "Little Humans" coming out December 2008 on Land-O-Newts Records *
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> On Nov 2, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Andrew Skeoch wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on recovering a corrupted aiff
> file?
> >
> > The file was being recorded to an external drive when it lost power.
> > I'm guessing, but the file may thus have a missing 'end of file'
> > flag? It shows up in the finder (mac), but without a preview. I have
> > tried to import the file into various apps, which all refused to
> open
> > it.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
>
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