Tale of 3 Backups
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:34 pm
Hello,
This is a short synopsis of what happened over the course of a few years.
My secondary backup drive went belly up, and since this was the 5th or 6th external drive I had lost, I decided my secondary backup would be online. So, I did a backup of all my DP projects to the cloud using CrashPlan. I tested it to make sure I could recover projects, and I could. But one big error on my part was that I didn't test older projects that used SD2 files. I didn't even think of it.
A couple of years ago — A major hard drive crash that also blanked out my backup drive (The developer of CCC told me the drive crashed in such a way that CCC blanked the destination drive thinking the source drive was empty). Gut punch!
But hey, I had the backup on the cloud so no problem. I purchased 2 new drives, restored files from CrashsPlan, made a backup, and got back to work.
I get a call to update an older project. Cool. But DP won't open it. It's a project that has SD2 files and Mac OS 10.13.5 (what I use) no longer recognizes them.
The error I'm seeing is: "Resource file was not found (-193)"
I try to open other older projects. Nope. Any project with SD2 files won't open in DP. This is years of work that I can't get back into.
Kick in the balls!
The questions is, which Batch Converter can help me out of this? A Support Tech at MOTU suggested I try Audaptor, but it looks like that app has been abandoned. I can't find a valid download. I tried Sound Grinder but it didn't recognize any of the old SD2 files, so now I'm wondering if they're corrupt from the trip to the cloud and back. Maybe something else got stripped from the file structure.
Did you guys know this SD2 thing was coming? Did you get any warning from MOTU? I just don't remember seeing anything. I guess I needed to be more attentive and forward thinking.
Thanks.
This is a short synopsis of what happened over the course of a few years.
My secondary backup drive went belly up, and since this was the 5th or 6th external drive I had lost, I decided my secondary backup would be online. So, I did a backup of all my DP projects to the cloud using CrashPlan. I tested it to make sure I could recover projects, and I could. But one big error on my part was that I didn't test older projects that used SD2 files. I didn't even think of it.
A couple of years ago — A major hard drive crash that also blanked out my backup drive (The developer of CCC told me the drive crashed in such a way that CCC blanked the destination drive thinking the source drive was empty). Gut punch!
But hey, I had the backup on the cloud so no problem. I purchased 2 new drives, restored files from CrashsPlan, made a backup, and got back to work.
I get a call to update an older project. Cool. But DP won't open it. It's a project that has SD2 files and Mac OS 10.13.5 (what I use) no longer recognizes them.
The error I'm seeing is: "Resource file was not found (-193)"
I try to open other older projects. Nope. Any project with SD2 files won't open in DP. This is years of work that I can't get back into.
Kick in the balls!
The questions is, which Batch Converter can help me out of this? A Support Tech at MOTU suggested I try Audaptor, but it looks like that app has been abandoned. I can't find a valid download. I tried Sound Grinder but it didn't recognize any of the old SD2 files, so now I'm wondering if they're corrupt from the trip to the cloud and back. Maybe something else got stripped from the file structure.
Did you guys know this SD2 thing was coming? Did you get any warning from MOTU? I just don't remember seeing anything. I guess I needed to be more attentive and forward thinking.
Thanks.