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Mr Windle
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SoundHack woes or similar?
      #413347 - 29/01/07 03:01 PM
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Hello,

I have a whole bunch of Pro-Tools audio files that were originally recorded in OS9, moved to a FAT-32 external drive and now, in OS-X, seemed to have forgotten what they were! OS-X thinks the .L ones are text documents and the .R ones are graphics!
PT won't recognise or open them and I've tried simply re-naming them as .WAVS but the computer is having none of it so I think the resource fork is damaged in all the to-ing and fro-ing.
SoundHack sounded like the ideal thing to make them whole again but the latest version (SH893) doesn't seem to run on my G5 OSX.4.3 and just brings up Adobe Reader (?!) as the application name t the top of the screen without the ability to do anything other than Hide or Quit it.
Anyone have any experience with this or something that could do the job?

Many thanks.


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Re: SoundHack woes or similar? new [Re: Mr Windle]
      #413400 - 29/01/07 04:27 PM
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SoundHack works fine on an identical system at my work. Maybe try a reinstall. Good luck


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Re: SoundHack woes or similar? new [Re: Mr Windle]
      #413435 - 29/01/07 05:30 PM
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I downloaded it again and had the same problem - I took the SoundHack app and dropped it in my Applications folder.

And then, as if my magic, I had the idea of putting the SH893 folder into Applications and trying again. All that's in the folder is the App and a Read Me file.

And what do you know?

It worked!

Sadly, the PT files seem to be corrupted very badly (lots of nasty white noise) and you can only just about make out there is some music underneath it.

But SoundHack does at least let me open the files and try and salvage something. Clever thing!


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Re: SoundHack woes or similar? new [Re: Mr Windle]
      #413540 - 29/01/07 09:10 PM
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Great stuff!


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Re: SoundHack woes or similar? new [Re: Mr Windle]
      #413680 - 30/01/07 08:02 AM
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If they were recorded in os9 wouldnt they be SD2 files? Just a thought.


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Re: SoundHack woes or similar? new [Re: Boof 'ed]
      #413734 - 30/01/07 10:14 AM
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Yes, they probably would have been SDII files. I've tried those, AIFFS and WAVS, different bit rates and even different sample rates but all with a similar disappointing result.

Thanks for the inputs though chaps.


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