I use GarageBand '11 version 6.0.3 to record an audio interview a few days ago. Simple stuff: I put my phone on speaker and just click record, using my MacBook's little microphone to record. I do this all the time.
When I went back to listen to the track to transcribe the interview, the first half of the interview was blank. The track is split into two pieces. The first looks empty (flat line) and says "file not found." It's silent when I play it back.
When I went to grab the individual files by clicking "show package contents," I see two files with seemingly identical file formats, although the icons they're displaying are different. They are both over 120MB in size, which is what they should be. The second one plays perfectly. The first one will not open up in iTunes — nothing happens. When I forced it to open in Quicktime it looks like it's well over an hour (it should only be about 20 minutes) and it makes a horrible clicking sound that's totally indecipherable. When I open up a new Garageband file and try to import the bad file back in, it says something about an "8 bit" file that it doesn't recognize. Again, it looks and sounds blank.
TL;DR: The first part of my interview looks blank, and the most I can get out of it is an obviously corrupted file. Is there any hope of saving it?
MacBook (13-inch), Mac OS X (10.7.5)
