#MD5 ZERO BYTE FILE WINDOWS 10#
#MD5 ZERO BYTE FILE WINDOWS#

Then I used Rednet Control to switch off phantom power to the microphones.

I then told Reaper to close - also admirably quick. These actions were very quick, as they usually are. I also watched as Reaper saved the project. I was watching as I told Reaper to save the files recorded in that session. I have checked SMART and all drives report as OK. Thanks for your responses while we sleep here in Australia. Good luck and my condolences for the loss. Recovery techniques like reading the whole drive as data and sifting through for what looks like files would be the thing to try. It's either it was being cached somewhere else and never got copied at the end by the OS or the drive really did fail between powering it off that night and powering it on later. That means the recording and file would be intact up to the point of power failure, should that happen. Reaper writes an end of file mark with every block of data written to the drive.

#MD5 ZERO BYTE FILE WINDOWS#

(The scenario being that the file was complete and intact at the end of that night but suddenly not there when you next fired up that drive.)Д«ut this WAS mentioned as a recent Windows faux pas that bit someone else on this forum in the ass and lost them a live recording. It still could have a root cause of drive failure. My conclusion is that if your filesystem shows a file of 0 size, that file is really 0 size now. The cache for any external volume feature being turned on by default as other Windows users discovered would explain everything. Reaper saw the handshake for a successful write.

(It just means an unexpected wait for one of the hardware devices in the system.) The 'pinwheel of death' as people like to call it. If the drive were genuinely failing, you would get a write error or device not responding error. Were you watching it during while it would have been writing the files in question? It would be a transparent cache by the OS. Reaper wouldn't and shouldn't know about this. That would still follow if the OS were caching the files. I'm more inclined to believe some sort of failure in the drive's structure.

All nine files appear in the directory, along with the peaks files, and the file names include the relevant date and time information - it's just that the file size shows as zero, and on later opening of the project, Reaper reports those files as being off-line. Continuous flashing of the drive activity light suggests that there is continuous write activity to the external drive (as opposed to cashing the data elsewhere).ДЄt the end of the concert, Reaper asked if it should save all 9 files, reported no problems in doing this, then happily saved the Reaper project before I closed the application. Reaper continued to record the remainder of the concert successfully and continued to run throughout the concert without indicating any problem.ДЈ. Windows did not crash or exhibit any unusual behaviour (not that that is conclusive in itself).Дў. Thanks Serr, for your very prompt response, but I see 3 problems with your conclusion:ДЎ. I have replaced the USB drive, and will record to two drives from two laptops, but I would really like to know what happened last week. I have another, critical recording to make tomorrow. Has anyone come across this situation before? Maybe there is a problem with the drive. However, the first 3 files of the recording ended up with a size of zero, two from one track and one from the other. The concert recording ran for about 75 minutes, so a new file was created approximately every 31 minutes. As indicated above, the rehearsal recording was fine. There were no error messages, or any other indication that there was a problem.

#MD5 ZERO BYTE FILE WINDOWS 10#

In detail, I was recording two stereo tracks at 96k to an external USB drive from a Windows 10 laptop using Reaper v5.79/ењ†4 and Dante Virtual Sound Card, a configuration that has worked flawlessly for over 2 years. The rehearsal was perfect, but the start of the live show was lost. When I came to edit the show, I found some of the. I recorded the rehearsal (as I usually do for backup), then the live performance. Last week, I used Reaper to record a multi track concert performance. I've used Reaper happily for a few years now, but now I need help, or need to report a bug.

Md5 zero byte file