lost data mystery!

[Monty Rakusen]

When I copied by ethernet from my laptop 92GB of data, all last weeks shoot into my Mac Pro, now I look in my Mac Pro to find there's only 85GB! I've checked the number of images and its excatly correct. Where did the difference go and why?
Monty Rakusen

[Dustbak]

Check some of my previous posts about this topic. I experience this more often. Copying via my network from my MacPro towards a Windows server I often loose files. I always have to check whether everything has come through.

Your post is the first I see that someone else is having this too. Thank god I am not crazy (though admittedly the one thing doesn't exclude the other).

No clue whatsoever is causing this unfortunately.

[mharvey65]

Hang on a second.

Monty specifically says that he is not 'loosing' any files... just that once transferred they are different sizes.

This is down to differential in drive type / drive formatting / OS.

This most frequently happens when transferring large amounts of data to NAS via ethernet.

The best way of securely transferring ANY data is to use Chronosync. It gives you a full report at the end of every transfer.

hth,

Michael

[Dustbak]

Right! Hmmm.. damn. That still means I could be crazy

[CleanLivin]

Well, I did my first test shots with my new 4D50 this afternoon.  Imported the files from CF card and there were 1 "B" file and 2 "C" prefix files in mixed with the A's.  Deleted the B and C files from within Phocus  and Phocus wiped out ALL files.

Repeated this twice so it's a bug in the code.

What worked was to move the files from CF card to a folder on the Mac desktop, then went in and deleted the C files, then imported into Phocus.