Hey guys,
I'm getting a strange issue that I'm hoping someone could advise me on what to try. I use a canon 5d mark ii. I have multiple files on my CF card including a few 4GB files. When I transfer them to my computer (they all transfer fine) only ONE 4GB file gets an error code: "the finder can't complete operation because data can't be read or written. (error code-36)" It plays fine when I play the file but it doesn't want to transfer.

I tried: Copying/Moving files, Different harddrive, I tried PC (i use a mac), I tried renaming file. None seem to work.

Please if anyone has any ideas to save this file, please help. Its a ceremony wedding clip from one of our cameras (about 12min of footage), very important!!!

Thanks in advance!
David

There are several other threads about this very issue. The files are being corrupted when recorded to the card. I bet they are Sandisk cards aren't they?

If you search for the threads on this topic, you will find a company that can save the clips for you. You pay a per clip fee.

I don't have the link here, but you can find it in the threads.

Daniel Weber

David,

Usually the company that makes the card has a recover utility which you can use to recover the files in many cases. I have recovered many a "lost" file in this manner.

HTH
Harry

Daniel I have the Kingston Elite Pro 32GB cards... but I'm sure it could be the same issue. Do you think that I should replace the card all together or is it something that could happen to any card at any moment? Daniel I looked around and had no luck finding a thread with a similar issue. (had a lot of error-36 issues but mainly w/ harddrive formatting issues)

Harry thanks for the tip, I will look into that and hopefully find something. If anyone else has any ideas or thoughts or comments feel free to join in!

Thanks

I have the Kingston cards as well, but have switched to the Transcend cards. I had several Kingston cards fail when recording video.

Most of the problems that I have heard of with corrupted files has been on Sandisk cards on Canon 7D's. Canon just released a firmware update for the 7D that fixes the issue, but I have not heard of one for the 5D.

Here is the link to the company that was able to save my friends footage:

Fix corrupt video files. Recover footage from damaged disks and cards (http://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/repair.html)

Good luck,

Daniel Weber