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Okay thanks to this thread ans some help from support I have managed to successfully recover 150G of deleted video files from a 16G card (!)

If anyone else has this problem the working xml file should be :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FileTypeList version="2.0">
<FileType id="5627" group="Custom" description="Canon5DMKII HD Video" features="" extension="MOV">
<Begin combine="OR">
<Signature>\x00\x00\x00\x18\x66\x74\x79\x70\x71\x74\x20\x20\x20\x07\x09\x00</Signature>
</Begin>
<End combine="OR">
<Signature offset="17" from="end" count="1">\x56\x43\x61\x6E\x6F\x6E\x41\x56\x43\x30\x30\x30\x31\x00\x00\x00\x00</Signature>
</End>
</FileType>
</FileTypeList>

Load this as your user file type and you will be good to go.

Total lifesaver, thanks.

[quote="polio"] group=“Custom”
[/quote]
Looks like the quotes around Custom are not standard ". Maybe, you wrote the file in a word processor rather than a plain editor.

Hi there, this is just what I need but I am having problems

I am trying to use this code in my xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FileTypeList>
<!-- Search for Canon 5D Mk II -->

<FileType id="5627" group=“Custom” description="Canon5DMKII HD Video" features="MOV">

<Signature offset="0" from="begin" count="1">\x00\x00\x00\x18\x66\x74\x79\x70\x71\x74\x20\x20\x20\x07\x09\x00</Signature>

<Signature offset="17" from="end" count="1">\x56\x43\x61\x6E\x6F\x6E\x41\x56\x43\x30\x30\x30\x31\x32\x00\x00\x00\x00</Signature>

</FileType>
</FileTypeList>


I am getting a "Failed to load File Type Definitions" error, what am I doing wrong ?

Thanks in advance

Thank you for the quick reply :)

I was under the impression that the xml file of user settings was being load from the root of the program file based on the previous poster's experiences
and didn't realize that that there was an option under settings to point to the file

Once I did that I was in business
I used the <FileType id="5627" group="Custom" description="Canon5DMKII HD Video" extension="mov"> as suggested earlier
I referred to creating custom file types doc to verify that I was making the signatures correctly
([url]http://www.r-tt.com/Articles/Creating_Custom_File_Type_R-Studio/index.shtml[/url])
and only noted a minor change to the signature, where my end signature my files read "..x32\x00\x00\x00\x00" instead of "..x31\x00\x00\x00\x00"

Files are exporting now, the first two seem normal, no glitches (which I noted with the mp4)
The files are still about 10x larger than usual, but I am hoping a quick batch through Adobe media encoder will bring them back down to a manageable size.

yay!

1. R-Studio can find the beginning of a standard mp4 file and not its end. That's why the custom known file type description file is preferable.
2. Did you load the file on the Main panel of the [url=http://www.unformat-unerase.com/Unformat_Help/r_studio_settings.html]R-Studio settings[/url]?

Hello

I am trying this method of recovery on a 5D MKII CF card

When I attempt to recover the .mov footage
the files are recognized as a .mp4 and approximately 10x their normal size
I also do not see the "Custom" category created by the XML file
which I placed in "C:\Program Files (x86)\R-Studio" on Vista64

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
Chris

[quote="AA"]hey ive got an important question....
why couldnt i select the camera in the program?
theres no custom in the menu.....[/quote]
A camera is not a regular data storage device. Its data storage is not accessible at the level R-Studio requires to recover files.

hey ive got an important question....
why couldnt i select the camera in the program?
theres no custom in the menu.....

Yes, these code applies to all file systems.

i hope this won't sound ignorant but will this same xml code work for the mac version?