Recording Lost !
 

Friends,
I am totally :mad: as I am not able to trace a very important 40 mins recording (.wav) file on my Nokia N900. I have done zillions of recording using this phone but this time something strange has happened.

Below are the steps to reproduce the scenario -

Stack :
Laptop on Ubuntu 9.1 (for what it's worth)
Device : Nokia N900 connected to laptop on 'Mass Storage Mode'

1) Connect your N900 with the USB cable to the laptop
2) Start the recorder (I am not sure if this recorder came out of the box or I downloaded it) but it has a red color big dot as an icon
3) Recording starts - the voices are coming from the laptop speakers and we are talking over skyppe
4) When it's time to save the recording , I stop the recording and give it a file name but now N900 does not allow me to pick a location to save this file but remains at root directory (/) but saves the file there as while existing the recorder it does not ask 'Do you want ot save the file ?' so I am assuming that it has saved it.
5) Now I am not able to get the recording back - I am not sure where it has gone.

In all the earlier recordings I had never connected my device via USB and while saving the recording the voice recorder always allowed me to select a location to save the file but this time it did not. I could not figure out that this happens because of it is connected via USB to the laptop but realized it later.

I had to connect N900 via USB since it was running low on battery !

Please help as I have just lost a very important customer conversation (software requirements) and I don't have no way to get back to him and ask 'can we do it again?'

very very disappointed
rohit

Re: Recording Lost !
 

Have you tried this ...The important stuff in root is hidden (prefix '.') so anything that shows without doing ls -a is probably not supposed to be in /root. What's the output?

Next (if you haven't already), treat yourself to a decent file explorer (I like filebox). Much easier to move files around with a UI. Move anything that looks like you made it, from /root to /home/user/MyDocs . If your recoding(s) aren't in the top folder of /root, they might be is a sub-folder. However, because /root is only 256MB if the file was too long, it might have been culled or curtailed.

Oh and see if there's a config file, somewhere ,for the app so you can redirect the output to somewhere more accessible.

Re: Recording Lost !
 

Thanks for the reply , my answers are below

The important stuff in root is hidden (prefix '.') so anything that shows without doing ls -a is probably not supposed to be in /root. What's the output?


ANSWER >> I did try '$sudo gainroot' but it prompts back saying 'Enable RD mode if you want to break your device '
I have no idea what it means !


Next (if you haven't already), treat yourself to a decent file explorer (I like filebox). Much easier to move files around with a UI. Move anything that looks like you made it, from /root to /home/user/MyDocs . If your recoding(s) aren't in the top folder of /root, they might be is a sub-folder. However, because /root is only 256MB if the file was too long, it might have been culled or curtailed.

ANSWER>> I will try filebox soon. From root (/) I gave
find -name *.wav | more - but could not see the file i was looking for . . . :(

Oh and see if there's a config file, somewhere ,for the app so you can redirect the output to somewhere more accessible.

ANSWER >> yeah will do that

Re: Recording Lost !
 

You need to install rootsh or ssh to get root access by typing sudo gainroot (or root@localhost & p/wfor ssh). Although, "root" by itself might work - I can't remember.

*Beware*
Being "root" is akin to windows' administrator. The normal status is "user". In linux you have to actively become the root user and it turns off as soon as you close the termiinal. Being the "root" user gives you access to your whole device so be careful.

You cannot search all directories as "user", more are accessible as "root". But, it looks like you need a visual file browser. Much easier.
If you want to know which userspace you're in at any given moment, type "whoami".

ps. RD mode is BAD. I've written code on the device, have it OC'd etc,etc. And, there's been no need to go Red so far and I hope there never will be!