sevm Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 I used to think how much it would suck if they all went missing. If there was some kind of harddrive/computer failure or whatever. Well they're all gone now and it sucks more than i tought. It was a collection i've built from scratch over several years of playing and recording. Lead, rythm, clean, bass. There was quite a few. Despite always being very cautious for several years. Having them on an external drive, i managed to screw up and delete/replace them. I don't know exactly how but my guess is i accidentally replaced them whilst updating my backupfolder on my external drive with a folder without them in it. Or something like that... I have tried deep-scanning with several recovery softwares: Recuva, getdataback, stellar phoenix windows data recovery, and they're all great for finding files. However they seem to find everything except .hre files. I've even found old .l6t files on the drive, along with several other random old files, but no hd pro presets. I tought maybe they didn't show because they were overwritten? So i made some new presets and deleted them, then scanned, but not one single .hre showed up during the scan. Why is that? I also read about creating a restore point. But i have no system backup as it is so i guess it's impossible doing something like that. This post is my last desperate attempt at finding them again. I already know it's over and i gotta accept it i guess. But i figured i might just ask here before starting over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceatl Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 You could try a disk recovery service. Their tools are really low level and for a working drive, generally much cheaper...The important thing if you go that route is to stop using the drive ASAP...If the files are there and you write more data, they will get overwritten at some point...If you overwrote the folder during a bulk copy, then that might have happened already...Really hard to know. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevm Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 Just curious, what could a recovery service do that i wouldn't be able to do myself? Do they have superior recovery software or just know hows that might help? I'm not using the disk. They were all stored on a 2TB external drive. I had them on the D-drive on my PC as well. When changing the folder on the external from my PC, i guess they were overwritten. No drive failure. It's working well. What makes me not want to give up just yet is: no recovery software has shown me any .hre file whatsoever, so they might be there, only that particular file type don't get picked up. I don't know what software will tough, if any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_brown Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 If there's no hard drive failure than a Search in Windows File Explorer for *.hre should find them. I still don't understand what exactly happened. Sounds like you had them on your local drive AND an external backup drive. If that's the case then how in the hell did you blow away both copies ? What kind of crappy lollipop backup software would do that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 Also note that if the drive in question is an ssd, it's unlikely that any software can undelete accidentally or intentionally deleted files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceatl Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 A good DRS company has hardware, software and experience you probably do not have. Recovery software you buy on the internet is not the same tooling at all. Anyway, just a suggestion nothing more. Good luck to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_brown Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 Did you look in your C:\Users\<MyUserName>\AppData\Roaming\Line 6 folder ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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