UPDATE: Using iPhone Backup Extractor I could find a .mov (why .mov you ask? I HAVE NO CLUE) inside an old backup from July 13, 2009 SO NEEDLESS TO SAY I'M THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD right now. It's 6:16a and it was a looooong night but definitively worth it. Thank you Teej!
Here's the thing. My dad passed away on July 2009. Before getting into coma I taped our very last conversation with him. Needless to say this is BY FAR the most important piece of data I would ever, EVER have.
I have no idea how this was corrupted, I really don't. I have time machine, I have iphone backups, and on every single piece of backup I have, the file is corrupted. The last time I listened to this record was 1 month after he passed away (August) and I decided not to play it up until today where I really needed to hear his voice — a year since he passed away.
Imagine my surprise when I got the generic audio icon, and iTunes wouldn't play it, my iPhone wouldn't play it, nor Quicktime or VLC.
I have NO idea what happened, I just need help to recover this file. Is there any way I can edit it with a HEX editor? Or a company that would offer m4a file recovery? I don't mind paying for it, I would really really like to hear my old man lasts words again.
Thank you and sorry for the "debbie-downer" tone.
Here's the file in case anyone would like to give it a shot:
http://teixidohq.com/sandbox/20090626 220255.m4a
Here's the thing. My dad passed away on July 2009. Before getting into coma I taped our very last conversation with him. Needless to say this is BY FAR the most important piece of data I would ever, EVER have.
I have no idea how this was corrupted, I really don't. I have time machine, I have iphone backups, and on every single piece of backup I have, the file is corrupted. The last time I listened to this record was 1 month after he passed away (August) and I decided not to play it up until today where I really needed to hear his voice — a year since he passed away.
Imagine my surprise when I got the generic audio icon, and iTunes wouldn't play it, my iPhone wouldn't play it, nor Quicktime or VLC.
I have NO idea what happened, I just need help to recover this file. Is there any way I can edit it with a HEX editor? Or a company that would offer m4a file recovery? I don't mind paying for it, I would really really like to hear my old man lasts words again.
Thank you and sorry for the "debbie-downer" tone.
Here's the file in case anyone would like to give it a shot:
http://teixidohq.com/sandbox/20090626 220255.m4a