Recovering deleted R3D files

[C Barker]

Hi there,

I accidentally deleted a day's worth of footage from my HD thinking I had already backed it up.

Is there any way to recover the data - either from my HD or from the REDMAG itself?

Many thanks!

 

[Kemalettin Sert]

you can recover it from the REDMAG easily.i deleted redmag accidentally and next 25 mins i got everything back as %100.
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[Will Keir]

What if you start recording over the SSD after the acciental delete?

 

[C Barker]

I have subsequently recorded onto the card (another day's worth of footage since reformatting). From the Redundead manual I gather the software will not work in this case?

Do I have any hope of recovering the R3D files from my laptop's HD?

 

[Mike Lary]

What if you start recording over the SSD after the acciental delete?

If the accidental delete was a simple format operation (not a secure delete) Redundead will likely resurrect R3Ds from the previous generation or further back depending on how much of the card was overwritten.

 

[Tarsem Antil]

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[Will Keir]

How does that even work? On a 256GB card. If you delete then record to full 256GB again, how is there room for information stored from previous generations?

Do they lie to us?

If the accidental delete was a simple format operation (not a secure delete) Redundead will likely resurrect R3Ds from the previous generation or further back depending on how much of the card was overwritten.

 

[Mike Lary]

How does that even work? On a 256GB card. If you delete then record to full 256GB again, how is there room for information stored from previous generations?

Do they lie to us?

You missed the part where I said "depending on how much of the card has been overwritten". Most crews are in the very good habit of recording much less than full capacity. This is good bottleneck prevention. Also, on slower shoots data might get backed up more frequently (smaller amounts at one time) and the last mag of a shoot could have a minimal amount of data recorded.