Thanks for this video, it worked to recover the audio. The sound engineer mentioned that they "paused" the recording on the X32 but did not "stop" before ejecting, so the file did not fully write the WAV file properly. To make an exact image clone of the flash drive before proceeding, I used a Windows utility called HDD Raw Copy Tool which is free and works on Windows 11. I then ran chkdsk /f on the flash drive and it recovered one "chunk". I was then able to use Audacity's "Import" function selecting "Raw Data" and importing 16-bit, default-endianness, stereo, 48khz and I have the audio. The resulting audio is full of pops and clicks... but I don't think this is a fault of the recovery process itself and is a result of something else going on with the audio setup at the time. The lesson here is to check the quality of the recording to USB during the sound check, and not just verify that it's recording.
Thank you very much for this tutorial! I was able to recover a 0 byte WAV file from a memory stick, just as you explained. We’ve had this problem before also, but then I didn’t know the solution to it. We don’t know why the sound recording stopped, as the sound technician did not hit STOP. Seems it might be a problem with Behringer X32, as we have had this happening with at least two different memory sticks (one was only a few months old).
God bless you, Rex. I just recovered a 2.3GB recording of the Good Friday service at my church. After the chkdsk command it asked my "convert lost chains to files? Y/N?" After saying yes it the created a FOUND.000 folder which placed the missing file in it and named it FILE0000.CHK. I used Audacity to convert it to a WAV and MP3. I have used VLC to save the audio too. Just wanted to share that in case others weren't sure. Thanks again for your help. **HUGE sigh of relief**
Rex Moncrief You replied just in time. I needed this again but couldn't remember the steps or where I learned it from the first time. Thanks again. Iwon't forget again though.
Thank you so much Rex. I am in charge of recording our church sermons and I switched off the X32 mixer before I stopped the recording. Result was zero bytes on that file, I was freaking out and had already apologized to church leadership. Now I can give them the good news. Thanks again, you're a legend!
A legend in my own mind .... but thanks! LOLOL I just put the information together in a video and released it after doing this for a client of mine several times. I'm so glad it helped you out!
YOU ROCK. Thanks. Recovered audio for one set from a x-32 recording. TWO parts... 1) from a power 'blink' / temporary loss. and 2) then after restart when power was restored, the board operator did NOT hit stop. Double trouble. If it could go wrong, it did. But.. I now have all I could ask for from the set. EXCELLENT tutorial.
Thank you for this! Today is 9-29-2024 and this solution worked for me. I powered the unit off before stopping the recording like I have never used any tech item in my life... We all make mistakes and thankfully this one was recoverable!
hey I'm having this exact same problem right now! I've done each step but, got stuck at the part where you chkdsk, windows says that it has already scanned and found no problems even through those 0 byte files are there Id greatly appreciate any help
Thanks, this worked to recover what was recorded. Sadly the recorder stopped on its own, so what was recorded wasn't of any use, but that's beyond the scope of this video. Can confirm it still works on the latest versions of macOS and Windows as of 2022
Thank you for saving my job! Well, not really but you saved me a lot of grief having to explain why there was no podcast audio from Sunday. Worked perfect in October 2019!
Just commenting to say your video helped me recover audio files from a live concert that I had filmed. I thought all was lost so I am very appreciative of your video and the informative way you explained everything.
Used this yesterday to recover a show recorded from the mixer. Very useful. One tip, on a PC, the FOUND folders didn't appear. Just did a search for .cdk files.
OH my gosh. Thank you so much. you saved my butt. We just had our new lead pastor set in at our church yesterday and i forgot the stop the recording so the file was corrupt. Our backup recording failed as well for a different issue. I went through your steps and recovered the file! Thank you so much. God bless!!!
Thank you for this video. You helped me recover a couple concerts I recorded. This method works and I'm very happy I found the video and the detailed explanation.
Amazing! I almost lost a wedding audio file from a Tascam DR-05 recorder after a fall, but with this explanation and method I could recover that file. And my soul returned to my body. Thanks a lot!
Wow, Rex you are a life saver! I shot a live, five camera concert yesterday and sure enough when I got home had the dreaded 0 byte on the usb flash drive. THANK YOU!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! We rent equipment and the dj who hired us wanted live mix recorded. First i forget my dongle for protools so then i used the recorder on the x32. When the gig ended i turned off the console without ejecting it. I would have lost a very good customer if i didnt get the file!! If your ever in chicago Luch is on me. Thanks
Thanks a lot for this great video. Just the solution I was teaching for after all recovery programs were not able to recover the files someone destroyed by shutting down the console...
Hello Rex, thank you for this video. It was very helpful. Another way to retrieve your files and which could maybe be easier, I scanned my USB stick through through an app call "Icare Data Recovery". It was much easier to get the lost files. Then I did as you did for converting it in VLC media player. And hooray!! I got my missing files :D
This is incredible. I can't tell you how many times I've had this happen and been totally lost on how to fix it. Thank you so much! I've been able to recover missing sermons for our church podcast!
Very useful trick to have in your back pocket! I know I've lost a few USB recordings due to power issues or forgetting to stop the recorder before powering down (of course, now I always use the Shutdown feature as of firmware v2.10).
Thank you so much! I used your technique on an mp3 recording that registered as o bytes on the USB drive. Do the same thing, and you helped me get my hour long music set back!
thank you SO MUCH. last night i switched the console off before stopping playback :) so this saved the day. conversion in vlc (to "CD") didnt quite work for me, but Reaper opened the recovered chk (renamed to wav) file perfectly :) THANK YOU
Thank you a lot mister! I almost lost a very valuable recording. I saved as "lossless" .ogg instead of mp3 to get the best possible quality. Then converted the .ogg to..wav. Sounds great.
Thanks a lot man! For me, convert with audacity not working, but I convert it to RAW file format, and I open it with Audacity, raw format again and then export to WAV file. ALSO: for ppl who don't have 'FOUND.xxx' folder, be sure you're activate 'Windows File Protection' in Folder settings
The Lord God bless you richly Rex. You just saved me a month's salary. 😭😭 And to think that this video was uploaded 8 years ago, but it's still relevant today, internet is the best thing that has happened to this generation. The Lord bless you abundantly.
Didn't work for me. chkdsk said my drive was fine and created no files. The Behringer X32 stopped recording on me (I didn't even have a chance to press the stop button.) So maybe my problem is deeper than most. Unfortunately I can't even figure out what steps to take to avoid this in the future.
thanks for this i need to dig up a broken file, and this was very useful.... however i wouldnt recommend saving as MP3 for any further editing, i would retain it as a .wav file or whatever the original format was, as there will be no 'compression' or any 're-encoding' later on. especially if the recovered file is a PCM file with no compression to begin with
Hi ! Thank you so much for this Video, I share the same problem like everyone here. When I run the dskchk on Windows I don't get any Found folders, Windows tells me everything is alright with the disk>. Any suggestions of what else I could try ? ?
Thanks for this video, it worked to recover the audio. The sound engineer mentioned that they "paused" the recording on the X32 but did not "stop" before ejecting, so the file did not fully write the WAV file properly. To make an exact image clone of the flash drive before proceeding, I used a Windows utility called HDD Raw Copy Tool which is free and works on Windows 11. I then ran chkdsk /f on the flash drive and it recovered one "chunk". I was then able to use Audacity's "Import" function selecting "Raw Data" and importing 16-bit, default-endianness, stereo, 48khz and I have the audio. The resulting audio is full of pops and clicks... but I don't think this is a fault of the recovery process itself and is a result of something else going on with the audio setup at the time. The lesson here is to check the quality of the recording to USB during the sound check, and not just verify that it's recording.
Glad to hear it helped - but also glad to see your response that may help others!
Thank you very much for this tutorial! I was able to recover a 0 byte WAV file from a memory stick, just as you explained. We’ve had this problem before also, but then I didn’t know the solution to it.
We don’t know why the sound recording stopped, as the sound technician did not hit STOP. Seems it might be a problem with Behringer X32, as we have had this happening with at least two different memory sticks (one was only a few months old).
Glad it helped. Yep - seems to be an ongoing issue with the X32.
God bless you, Rex. I just recovered a 2.3GB recording of the Good Friday service at my church. After the chkdsk command it asked my "convert lost chains to files? Y/N?" After saying yes it the created a FOUND.000 folder which placed the missing file in it and named it FILE0000.CHK. I used Audacity to convert it to a WAV and MP3. I have used VLC to save the audio too.
Just wanted to share that in case others weren't sure. Thanks again for your help. **HUGE sigh of relief**
Sorry I'm way late responding to this comment, but just saw it. Glad it helped you out last spring!
Rex Moncrief You replied just in time. I needed this again but couldn't remember the steps or where I learned it from the first time. Thanks again. Iwon't forget again though.
Thank you so much Rex. I am in charge of recording our church sermons and I switched off the X32 mixer before I stopped the recording. Result was zero bytes on that file, I was freaking out and had already apologized to church leadership. Now I can give them the good news. Thanks again, you're a legend!
A legend in my own mind .... but thanks! LOLOL I just put the information together in a video and released it after doing this for a client of mine several times. I'm so glad it helped you out!
Oh my goodness. This actually worked. Well explained and easy to follow procedure. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME. THANK YOU IMMENSELY
YOU ROCK.
Thanks. Recovered audio for one set from a x-32 recording. TWO parts... 1) from a power 'blink' / temporary loss. and 2) then after restart when power was restored, the board operator did NOT hit stop.
Double trouble. If it could go wrong, it did. But.. I now have all I could ask for from the set.
EXCELLENT tutorial.
Glad this old video continues to help folks!
ME TOO! Posted it on my FB page, and had a couple of 'thank you's also. Always new to someone, right? @@RexMoncrief
You are a hero! I've just recovered a file from yesterday's show, which made me (and the band) extremely happy :) Thank You so much!
I am shocked how many commentors here are about a church service cause this video just saved our Sunday recording too!!
That's why I have left this video up here for nearly a decade! I'm shocked too.
Thank you for this!
Today is 9-29-2024 and this solution worked for me.
I powered the unit off before stopping the recording like I have never used any tech item in my life... We all make mistakes and thankfully this one was recoverable!
Amazing, used this to recover a 0 byte .WAV from a Zoom H4N after a fall that catapulted the batteries! I'm glad to have those sounds back, thank you!
Excellent and glad it helped you!
hey I'm having this exact same problem right now!
I've done each step but, got stuck at the part where you chkdsk, windows says that it has already scanned and found no problems even through those 0 byte files are there
Id greatly appreciate any help
@@dylanyanes same here :(
I just used this process in 2019 on a USB drive and was able to recover the lost file from today as well as one from 6/2018 and 6/2017. Thank you.
You are a life saver! This is the ONLY tutorial (video or text) that helped me recover my zero bytes files. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Very glad it helped and you were able to recover your data!
Thanks, this worked to recover what was recorded. Sadly the recorder stopped on its own, so what was recorded wasn't of any use, but that's beyond the scope of this video. Can confirm it still works on the latest versions of macOS and Windows as of 2022
Thanks for commenting with an update. 🙂
Thank you for saving my job! Well, not really but you saved me a lot of grief having to explain why there was no podcast audio from Sunday. Worked perfect in October 2019!
Thanks!! Even after all these years and switching to Win11 Pro this process still works great. It saved our churches Christmas program.
Wow. Glad to know it still helps!
You are the BEST dude. Just recovered something very important because of your tutorial. Thank you SO much.
Wow man, thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. You saved me an hour and a half recording I did not want to lose.
You are welcome. Glad it worked for ya!
Just commenting to say your video helped me recover audio files from a live concert that I had filmed. I thought all was lost so I am very appreciative of your video and the informative way you explained everything.
Awesome , It worked ! Thanks you sooooo much , this past Sunday I lost a file and now I have it back . May God bless you Sir!!!
Awesome! Love to hear when the process works!
Thank you so much for this video! You helped me save several unwrapped files!!!! God Bless You!
Always glad it helped!
Used this yesterday to recover a show recorded from the mixer. Very useful.
One tip, on a PC, the FOUND folders didn't appear. Just did a search for .cdk files.
joe whibley glad it helped you out. Did you "show" the hidden folders and system files as shown around the 2:25 mark in my video?
OH my gosh. Thank you so much. you saved my butt. We just had our new lead pastor set in at our church yesterday and i forgot the stop the recording so the file was corrupt. Our backup recording failed as well for a different issue. I went through your steps and recovered the file! Thank you so much. God bless!!!
Works as advertised. Thank you so much. Still relevant 4 years later!
Thank you so much! It’s working! By the way, Cubase has read the renamed file successfully, so no VLC needed this time.
All the best!
Was praying and this video popped up 😭 Just wanna say thanks and God bless. It really works saved the audio file I thought I lost! :')
I am so glad your prayers were answered and this video was able to help you. 👍
Thank you for this video. You helped me recover a couple concerts I recorded. This method works and I'm very happy I found the video and the detailed explanation.
Thanks so much. Had 3 hours of worship to recover and this worked perfectly.
Thank you for taking the time to do this. I was able to recover a zero byte file from an Edirol Roland R-09 recorder.
Awesome! While it doesn't help every case, it does with most. Glad you recovered yours!
Amazing! I almost lost a wedding audio file from a Tascam DR-05 recorder after a fall, but with this explanation and method I could recover that file. And my soul returned to my body. Thanks a lot!
Wow - I never thought posting this tutorial would help so many folks! Glad you were able to recover the file.
Wow, Rex you are a life saver! I shot a live, five camera concert yesterday and sure enough when I got home had the dreaded 0 byte on the usb flash drive. THANK YOU!
Thanks - but I just made a video to follow. Glad it helped ya out!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! We rent equipment and the dj who hired us wanted live mix recorded. First i forget my dongle for protools so then i used the recorder on the x32. When the gig ended i turned off the console without ejecting it. I would have lost a very good customer if i didnt get the file!! If your ever in chicago Luch is on me. Thanks
So glad that this helped you out! If I'm in Chicago - I will take you up on that lunch! :-)
Thanks a lot for this great video. Just the solution I was teaching for after all recovery programs were not able to recover the files someone destroyed by shutting down the console...
Hello Rex, thank you for this video. It was very helpful. Another way to retrieve your files and which could maybe be easier, I scanned my USB stick through through an app call "Icare Data Recovery". It was much easier to get the lost files. Then I did as you did for converting it in VLC media player. And hooray!! I got my missing files :D
Hi J - sure, in some cases data recovery software may do the trick too. Thanks for the feedback and glad you recovered your files!
This is incredible. I can't tell you how many times I've had this happen and been totally lost on how to fix it. Thank you so much! I've been able to recover missing sermons for our church podcast!
Well I'm 2 yrs late responding but you are welcome!
GoD!!!! Bless THIS MAN!!!!! He just made The Bridge BP church and happy church!!!! THANK YOU SOOOoooo MuCH!!! HuuuuuuGE DEAL!!!!
You are welcome! Glad it worked out for y'all! 👍
This video saves my butt again. Many thanks!!
Glad to hear it!
Thanks so much! My Midas M32 creates corrupt files every now and then. I just followed your video and recovered what I needed!
Awesome! Glad it worked on the Midas too.
Thanks a lot for this video, it just saved my two-hours-long recording!
You are welcome! Glad it helped you!
Very useful trick to have in your back pocket! I know I've lost a few USB recordings due to power issues or forgetting to stop the recorder before powering down (of course, now I always use the Shutdown feature as of firmware v2.10).
Glad it could help you out. That's why I created the video based on the original forum post. :-)
Wow! This is very useful even in 2024! Thank you for this video!
Who knew that a 9 yr old video would be helping people today!
Because of you I was just able to save the very last performance of one of my bands! Amazing! Thank you sooo much man! Cheers from the Netherlands!
You are very welcome. Glad it could help you out!
Hey man, I know it's years later but you saved my hind end big time. Thank you.
No problem and thanks for the comment! Glad the technique was able to help you!
God Bless you Sir, this guide has saved very important recordings in my own home church as well and we are able to use them!!! Thank you!!
Awesome! Glad the video helped y'all out. :-)
Thank you so much! I used your technique on an mp3 recording that registered as o bytes on the USB drive. Do the same thing, and you helped me get my hour long music set back!
Awesome! Glad it helped you recover your music!
thank you SO MUCH. last night i switched the console off before stopping playback :) so this saved the day. conversion in vlc (to "CD") didnt quite work for me, but Reaper opened the recovered chk (renamed to wav) file perfectly :) THANK YOU
Thank you Rex. This just happened to me for our service. Second time. Going to recover it later with this method. Have a blessed day.
Thank you a lot mister! I almost lost a very valuable recording. I saved as "lossless" .ogg instead of mp3 to get the best possible quality. Then converted the .ogg to..wav. Sounds great.
Thank you so much, saved an hours worth of my fathers recordings!!!
Thank you so much. You helped me out a whole lot. Have a wonderful, amazing day. THANK YOU!!
What if no files are found but there is a still a file that had zero KB in the drive ?
This worked for me!!!! Thank you soooooooo much, you're a life saver!
You saved this year's Easter audio recording! 😃
Worked FLAWLESSLY !!
Thank You!
datflys Awesome - glad it helped 👍
Still a great working method and it's 2022 and I recovered on an MR32.
Excellent!
Thanks a lot man!
For me, convert with audacity not working, but I convert it to RAW file format, and I open it with Audacity, raw format again and then export to WAV file.
ALSO: for ppl who don't have 'FOUND.xxx' folder, be sure you're activate 'Windows File Protection' in Folder settings
Thanks! Exactly what I needed. You just saved the day for me!
Bryan James Awesome and glad it helped you out!
The Lord God bless you richly Rex. You just saved me a month's salary. 😭😭
And to think that this video was uploaded 8 years ago, but it's still relevant today, internet is the best thing that has happened to this generation. The Lord bless you abundantly.
Glad it helped you out! Yes - the intarwebs (and especially youtube) are very awesome!
Thank you so much man! I was able to recover some audio that I never thought I could get back.
Glad it helped you out! 😀
Just wanted to add to the gratitude. Thanks!
You are welcome. 25k views later this has helped quite a few folks. 👍
YES!!! thanks so much for the step by step instructions, it worked perfectly
Thank you sir, just saved an entire gig from last night :-D
+LayZeeSnake Trio Awesome! Glad it worked out and saved it!
Você acaba de salvar o meu show inteiro!! Muito Obrigado!
You're a lifesaver. Thank you.
excellent !! Thank God for your tutorial
And thank God for youtube and the intarwebs!
Worked out fine now on Windows 10! Thank you so much!
Brilliant thank you saved my Xair12 recording today.
Thanks. It worked perfectly after I powered down my Midas M32 before stopping the recording.
Awesome! I never imagined that this video would help so many people. :-)
Much gratitude, seriously!
Glad it helped you out!
I’m crying. Thank you. 😭
THANK YOU SO MUCH! BLESSINGS! - Colombia, South America
Thanks! Had some files that were corrupted because I forgot to stop the recording before powering off (which I feel like Behringer could address).
Saved my bacon! Thank you from 2022
excellent !! Thank God for your tutorial....excellent...thank you very much...
Saved my life!
Glad it helped you out!
god bless you and your family with health and happiness for life,
YOU SAVED MY LIFE!
Maaaaan!!! You're a hero!!
Thanks for the video
YOU'RE GOING STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN LIFESAER!!
YOU LIFE SAVER!
Saved my bacon, thanks! Got about 75% of what I lost, but that was way better than 0%! Just a hiccup on an M32...
You are a blessing 🙌🏽
Perfect! Thanky you very much!
Sir, you are my hero!
When ever you are in Germany feel free to come over and have beer and steak :-)
If I ever make it across the pond - I will take you up on the beer and steak! Thanks!
I can't thank you enough for saving our show recording! ^_^
And a year later I see your comment ... thank you for watching and glad it helped!
Muito obrigado pela ajuda. Sou do Brasil, deu muito certo a recuperação. Excelente explicação.
Você é muito bem-vindo! Que bom que ajudou!
Thank you so much for showing me this. I wish i had known this sooner
While this process doesn't help 100% of the time, it has definitely helped many folks. Thanks for commenting.
this trick has saved me many times, thank you!
You are welcome. Glad it worked for ya!
Thank you very much for this! helped a lot!
Didn't work for me. chkdsk said my drive was fine and created no files. The Behringer X32 stopped recording on me (I didn't even have a chance to press the stop button.) So maybe my problem is deeper than most. Unfortunately I can't even figure out what steps to take to avoid this in the future.
thanks for the video - lifesaver!
You can add me to the long list of successful audio saves due to your video. Many thanks!
Great! Glad it could help you out!
You saved my life bro!! It worked thanks so much!
+Carl Lynch Awesome! I really just took some posted information from taperssection.com/index.php?topic=161409.0 and put it to video. :-)
This works great! Thanks for the help.
thanks for this i need to dig up a broken file, and this was very useful....
however i wouldnt recommend saving as MP3 for any further editing, i would retain it as a .wav file or whatever the original format was, as there will be no 'compression' or any 're-encoding' later on. especially if the recovered file is a PCM file with no compression to begin with
DUDE!!!!! THIS IS AMAZING!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Thank you so much for this!
Thank you for making this!
You are welcome. Hope it helped you out.
Hi !
Thank you so much for this Video, I share the same problem like everyone here.
When I run the dskchk on Windows I don't get any Found folders, Windows tells me everything is alright with the disk>.
Any suggestions of what else I could try ? ?
i have the same problem...
I love you! hahahah
My audio was not totaly restored, but it was 70%... thanks!
And 2 years later UA-cam shows me you comment. So glad you got 70% restoration. That beats a total loss!
im very thankful :)
Thank you. This saved my bacon today.
Glad that it helped you out. We all love bacon. :-)