REDUndead Help

[Brennan Robideaux]

Need a little help here...

I am using REDUndead and after going through "diskutil list" and finding out my REDmag is disk9, I type in this "redundead *SPACE* /dev/rdisk9 *SPACE* /Users/brennan/Desktop/REDUndead/ (REDUndead being the folder on my desktop).

After that, it immediately says "done!" There are no recovered files in the folder after that. Is there something I am doing wrong. There has been more footage put onto the cards, but I was hoping that the rumor that you could recover data even after formatting the card and shooting again would be true.

Any help would be appreciated!!

Brennan

 

[Dustin Cross]

Connect to the redmag via Firewire or usb.


Dusty

 

[Brennan Robideaux]

Was able to get the footage to begin extracting by using a "sudo" command. Now, my question is that it recovered footage from a shoot I did weeks ago but nothing from the shoot I need to recover from yesterday... Thoughts?

 

[Andre W.]

Due to changes in OS-X from now on you will need to use the 'sudo' command. Learned that a few days ago.

As long as you haven't done a secure erase, written zero's to it, or popped it in a microwave, REDundead should be able to grab clips. All a format does is erase the roadmap on how to get to the data, all the footage is still there. Once you run REDundead, I do not believe you can re-run it on the same card to try and pull more data, and it's always going to be a little bit of a gamble as to what and how much it will actually be able to pull back.

You are 100% positive that was the card that was shot on that needs recovered? When ever I use the program it always brings the most recent footage, unless I filled the card to almost full the time before, then it's a mix of footage.

 

[Brennan Robideaux]

I am 100% positive. I even tried it on my other card to try and make sure. It pulled files from weeks ago. Nothing came back from the shoot 2 days ago that I need.

 

[Ted Parkes]

I had the same issue.. it immediately posted "done". I haven't played with it since but saved the card I hope to get the footage from. I have an experienced DMT working with me tomorrow and he has experience and success so I am hoping he can retrieve the files. I will check in with you after he has a go at mine and share what I learn.
Ted

 

[Jordan Buck]

Can you expand on using the sudo command?
Cant seem to find anywhere online that explains this.

 

[Justin O'Neill]

You just type "sudo" (no quotation marks) with a space after it before the regular redundead command.

 

[Nick Pasquariello]

To elaborate, sudo was described to me (by a close friend with a programming degree) as "super user do". When you put it before a command, you're telling the computer "No, seriously, I know what's best for me." Often the computer will respond with a Password prompt.

There are absolutely things that you could do with sudo that would wreck your entire system. However, I can't think of any of them that would occur while trying to use RedUndead.