DeborahAnne

The wavs are user created instrumental tracks to create songs. Each song requires a certain amount of tracks for each instrument and for each person singing. One song could be made up with 100 tracks or more. Sometimes they made 20 different versions of the same song etc etc. Cubase software works directly with the computer, adaptors, the musical instruments, drums, mics via a sound board of some kind ( I am just a helper trying to get help for a band.) http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/cubase/why_cubase.html 8 entire songs were created but all divided into individual tracks totaling 3,000 or so wav files and were mistakenly deleted. Approximately 1,300 have not been able to be recovered. It had been discovered that the recycle bin was not large enough to hold all those wav files as they are so large which is why we decided to try Recuva.

All the recovered files are $I wavs except for 2 or 3 $R wavs

Augueaus, I opened two of those $ wavs in text editor and sure enough there were the original names of the files, totally different.. I also saw the directory. So, if I just rename the file to the original name will the wav play? or are you saying that the $ files and original name files are in two different places? (sorry, computer savvy I am not.)

Not sure Dennis, regarding your question about the wav files being or not being part of the installation. Will look into that. Regarding Augeaus post, we did think that the file names did have the $ in front but that may not be the case because of overall confusion of what was happening and panic about possibly losing important wavs, so we are not sure. Will try to open with text editor and find out and will get back to you.

In the beginning, we deleted 3000 files out of a folder on desktop (select all then delete) not realizing that the wav files were larger than what the recycle bin held..so approx. 1300 wavs were removed from recycle bin and then realized we needed some of the wavs back in order for Cubase to run properly...which are the ones we are trying to recover with Recuva. So now, the Recuva recovered files cannot be used with the Cubase 5 program nor played in the media players such as Windows Media player or Winamp. Ran the Recuva normal scan and we did nothing to rename the files; they seemed to have renamed themselves which is part of the problem I think and also thought perhaps these wav files might have been compressed in the process of recovering. Its almost as if the Recuva recovered files are no longer wav files..despite having files names that read as .wav files. For all practical purposes all 1300 were recovered except 133 wavs which were corrupted in some way) red circles..Just cannot get the good ones to work in the Cubase program which is where they were made in the first place. (If a track or sample was not good Cubase would put the wav file in a folder automatically;there would be samples per one drum track for example of over 100 files.) All the Cubase wav files that were deleted were named/ numbered by Cubase with the words Audio in front of the numbered/lettered files Now the Audio word is gone with the recovered files. So instead of lets say Audio$IB4309V.WAV it now says $IB4309V.WAV I know this sounds confusing, I am confused just trying to explain it.

The .wav files were files used for Cubase 5 program. After recovering the .wav files, the files appear to be renamed in such a way that the Cubase program does not recognize. Please help.......