Joel Taylor
Blackmagic Footage Won’t Open? Recovering BRAW and HyperDeck Recordings
There are two versions of this bad day. In one, you finish a shoot on an URSA or Pocket Cinema Camera, drop the card in your machine, and half of your BRAW clips show black thumbnails and won’t open in…
Atomos Recording Won’t Play? How to Recover Footage from a Ninja or Shogun
You were recording a concert on an Atomos Ninja in ProRes. About twenty minutes in, the unit quietly stopped recording — no error on screen — and wouldn’t start again. You powered it off and back on, and it offered…
Power Loss Mid-Recording? Your Unfinalized Video File Is Usually Still Recoverable
It is the call no production company wants to make. You were paid well to cover a concert, a conference keynote, a once-only live event — multiple cameras, a long continuous record, no second takes. The show ends, someone kills…
Video File Shows 0 Bytes on Your Mac? Your Footage Is Probably Still Recoverable
You plug in the external drive to grab a finished video — a wedding, a client shoot, a family trip — and the file is right where you left it. But the size column reads Zero KB. The thumbnail is…
The AI Storage Crunch Is Forcing Small Businesses to Run Servers Past Their Expiration Date
If you follow the markets at all, you already know the broad strokes of the storage story. Shares of the major hard-drive manufacturers have climbed several hundred percent over the past year. Western Digital has told investors its hard-drive production…
ZFS Data Recovery: Deleted Files, Faulted Pools, and Unmountable Arrays
ZFS earned its reputation for resilience: built-in checksums, redundant metadata, and copy-on-write writes that never overwrite live data in place. That same design is also what makes recovery possible after events that would be terminal on other filesystems. Whether a…
APFS Data Recovery: When a Mac Won’t Boot or a Drive Won’t Mount
You go to power on your Mac and instead of the usual login screen, you get a folder with a flashing question mark, or a circle with a slash through it. You plug in your external drive and macOS tells…
Ext4 Data Recovery: Deleted LUNs, Corrupted Superblocks, and the Limits of fsck
The call comes in from an admin who has just discovered something missing. Maybe the host’s VM directory is suddenly half empty — production qcow2 files that were there yesterday simply aren’t there today. Maybe an iSCSI target on a…
Btrfs Data Recovery: When the Volume Won’t Mount and the Server Is Down
The call usually comes in around the same time of day. The admin opened a ticket because something went wrong overnight — a power blip, a kernel panic, a host upgrade, a controller reset — and now the server or…