Bob Olhsson wrote on Tue, 25 January 2011 13:26 |
I've been telling people to avoid SD2 like the plague for over a decade.
It has been a time bomb since Apple started threatening to pull the plug on supporting resource forks in system 8.
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No kidding, eh? Just think of all those feature films in the vaults with Hard Drives or Magneto Optical disks meant for Akai DD8 dubbers in ProTools 5 / SoundDesigner2 format.
Just that alone, makes me shudder... At least a decade of film, TV, and music archives that are potentially un-recoverable. Maybe it's just as well...
I see a business opportunity there, though... Go to all the record labels and film companies, and give them a quote on recovering, consolidating and transferring their audio masters into BWF files.
My Hard Drive closet alone, would be easily 7 or 8 months work for a diligent young lad, but at least there's minimal (if any) SD2 files to deal with.
But who's going to pay for it? So for now, it will fester...
Recipe for disaster? Client buys pre-formatted drive at Best Buy and transfers all their files over, to make space on their system. Client discovers after-the-fact that preformatted drive they bought is FAT32...