Voice Memo - Can see it on your iPhone - but does not show up in iTunes - long recording - how to retrieve the voice memo (for free)? - PC (Windows) User
Dont worry guys, your voice memo is not lost so long as you have actually recorded it successfully!
Here is what happened to me: I recorded 1hour 30mins on my Voice recorder on the iPhone. When I tried to play it back using my iPhone, it wouldnt work, yet I could see that there was "1hour 30mins" worth of data, but nothing would play. I was really stressed because the recording was extremely important to me.
If you have a similar problem, I suggest to follow the steps below. It is for free, it is simple, safe and QUICK:
1) Sync your iPhone with iTunes (and let it back it up)
2) Reincubate:
http://www.reincubate.com/labs/iphone-backup-extractor-how-extract-files-iphone- backup-windows/#/res/i/labs/iphonebe/3_wizard.png
Go to the above website, if the link doesnt work by copy and pasting it, then just search "reincubate iphone extractor" in google, the first hit should be the relevant one.
3) Download the extractor "iPhone Backup Extractor 1.0.0.12 (24th June 2009)
Changes:Now allows for restore of calendar to CSV"
4) Save it
5) Open the .exe - click on "extract".
6) Then Click on next until you come to the option to choose "manually" the files you want - clcik next
7) Now search down for media, and under media you should see "recordings" and tick the recording that was not working (it is fairly difficult to determine which recording it is if you have many, so might be a bit of a trial and error exercise)
8) it should save a file in your desktop - open your desktop and once you have chosen the correct file, you will be able to get your recording!
The weird thing about this all is that I found my "voice memo" through this process to actually be a .mov file. Perhaps this happens if you go over a certain time during recording. I pressed play and it played in quicktime!
Anyway I hope this helps. If you have any questions just reply and Ill try help!