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mgee1973 Author

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please help !!

Hi all first time on here !!

Ok I have loaded movies from my camcorder onto the mac then edited them in iMovie then used idvd to finalise them I think to burn to DVD (all is well at this point ).

Once i have burnt these to dvd I then dragged and dropped my dvdpro movie into my external hard rive.Then stupidly deleted the original file off of my MBP.

When I plug the hard rive back into my MBP and try and play the movie from the hard rive it says it cannot do this do I want to find the file !!!when I try and play the movie back on VLC it will play the movie but with no audio 😟.

Please can someone help me these are the only movies I have of my daughter and I need to make more dvd's to keep.

Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Dec 14, 2014 11:13 AM

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Old Toad

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Dec 15, 2014 9:52 AM in response to mgee1973

First how is the EHD formatted?

Next, what is the size of the file you're trying to open and play?

Does it have a small arrow in the lower left hand corner of its icon?

If it does then it's an alias of the original movie file.

Do you have a backup of your boot drive from before you moved the movie to the EHD? Recover the original movie from it.

If you don't have a backup you can use to recover the movie you'll have to use a file recovery application like SubrosaSoft FileSalvage to see if you can recover the movies. You can run it in demo mode to see if it can find the movies and recover them before you have to purchase it. Use the hard drive as little as possible to avoid overwriting the files on the HD.

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mgee1973 Author

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Dec 15, 2014 11:04 AM in response to Old Toad

Hi Old toad

It's just took me a bit to figure out what EHD meant ,as I said I am a total newbie.Ok answers to your questions :-

1, The EHD is Formatted mac os extended (journaled)

2, The file sizes vary from 950mb to 3gb

3, The is no arrow in the left hand corner of any of the movie (is the image the thumbnail?)

4, What is the boot drive ? I do use time machine if this helps ?

One more question If I use time machine to go back before I created the movie will I lose everything i have since then ?

Thanks for your help

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Old Toad

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Dec 15, 2014 11:17 AM in response to mgee1973

2, The file sizes vary from 950mb to 3gb

These looks like the correct size for video files. The lack of an arrow tells us they are not alias files.

The boot drive is your internal drive.

One more question If I use time machine to go back before I created the movie will I lose everything i have since then ?

No. Use TM to restore only those movie files. Once you get a movie file back on your boot drive check it to make sure it will play OK. Then copy it to the EHD and try opening from there. If it opens OK delete the one from the boot drive.

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mgee1973 Author

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Dec 15, 2014 11:19 AM in response to mgee1973

Hi again

If it helps when I highlight the file on the EHD then go to info then where it says /Volumes/Archives/Camcorder Movies and the name and extension says Cornwall 2013.dvdproj.It also say created 17th September 2013 13:12 and modified 13th December 2014 20:11.

When I go into my time capsule I can go back to 1 september 2014 or 13th may 2014.

What I don't understand is if I restore the computer back to these dates do I lose everything I have done since then ?

Also if I have created DVD's of my movies will I be able to use these dvd''s to copy back onto my MBP to make other copies or back up ?

Sorry for all these questions .

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mgee1973 Author

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Dec 15, 2014 11:21 AM in response to mgee1973

How do I use TM to restore only these movie files ? I really don't understand how to use TM 😟

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Dec 15, 2014 11:21 AM in response to mgee1973

I don't think Old Toad was suggesting to restore the entire computer. Time Machine allows you to restore individual files if need be. Look at these links and see if these help you out:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1165784/how_to_restore_data_from_time_machine.ht ml

Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support

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Old Toad

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Dec 15, 2014 12:19 PM in response to mgee1973

schaatsmaster is right. I'm only suggesting you restore selected movie files, not the entire hard drive. Go to the folder where the movies were located originally, enter Time Machine, go back in time till you find the most recent copy of the movie file(s), select them and click on the Restore button. They will be restored to the folder you started in.

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mgee1973 Author

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Dec 15, 2014 12:21 PM in response to schaafsmaster

Hi both of you,

I think it has worked I have found the files in time machine under iMovie events and restored that ,so all I have to do now is create the project again. Once I have moved the clips into iMovie projects ,then shared with media ,then open in idvd and create a new project ,can I then burn a new disk ?

Then what should I do with the file created in documents ? Drag and drop it to my EHD ?Then can I delete it from iMovie events and my documents?

Thanks you both so much for your help it really has restored my faith in OSX

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