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On Sunday, I flew my Mavic Air, taking a video (4k) for the first half of the flight, followed by a couple of panoramas. All seemed normal - as the recording was running, I could see the elapsed time counting on the Go4 display, so I assumed it was recording.
I had some videos on that SD card that were shot earlier in June, in addition to the 06/21/2020 videos. I did my usual copy of all the changed files on the SD card to a folder on my PC for storage, and all seemed OK.
Yesterday, I got around to looking at the videos, all were there EXCEPT for the ones from 06/21/2020! I thought maybe somehow they got recorded to the internal storage on the MA, but I checked, and that was not the case.
I scanned the SD card and internal storage with Rescuva undelete program, and there WERE deleted files on the SD card with sizes that I was expecting, and the prognosis for recovery were Excellent. I restored them all to a folder on my PC (nothing was written to the SD card since the flight on 06/21/2020).
Unfortunately, none of those video files were playable.
Has anyone encountered a situation like this? I looked at the flight record file with CSView, the camera data groups, and confirmed that recording was going on for the first half of the flight, followed by the panorama series. It would seem that the video file was correctly closed, since the recording was terminated normally, as opposed to letting the recording stop on its own when the drone shuts down.
Does anybody know of a better undelete program for Win10?
UPDATE
I tried another undelete program, Disk Drill, and I did a quick scan.
In the _DownloadCache_ folder, there are two very large files. They appear to be the correct size, and the date/time stamp has the date I took the video. They would be 4K MP4 files (actually they seem to be copies..there was only one video taken that day).
Does anyone understand how the the process that saves the videos works? Is this a temporary file?
Is tthere a way to determine what the filename would have been - i.e. what number would have been added?
How can I recover this into a valid MP4 file? The file name/path is: \DFS\_DownloadCache_\DFS_Shop_BL_V1_4_X_X_DT2019_03_13_17_5_01_.7z
Why would such a large file be in a \DFS\ directory?? Every time see video files, they are in \DCIM\100MEDIA
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