Missing audio files

Mac Pro Dual Core 2.266 Dual Core Intel Xeon osx 10.4.9 4 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 FB-DIMM Glyph 250 gig removable firewire drive PT - 7.3.1 HD3 I recorded several tracks of audio into a midi music session... mixed and bounced and closed the session. When i reopened the session all the recorded audio was missing. I searched the entire computer for them. No Audio files anywhere Disk utility showed no problems. Midi all ok Audio files i had imported are there and play ok HELP

I used Data Rescue 2 to recover the lost files... it worked! It found my audio files in a hidden folder on the drive named "CBR" in "CBR" there are 2 folders named "Audio" and "Misc" in "Misc" are 2 folders "ETC" and "RSRC" in "ETC" are files named "DS_Store-00001", "DS_Store-00002", "DS_Store-00003", "DS_Store-00004" in "RSRC" are files named "R-0001.rsrc", "R-0002.rsrc", "R-0003.rsrc" in the folder named "Audio" is a folder named "WAV" In the folder "WAV are all the recovered audio files. There are audio files from 3 different session that were all recorded on the same day. Since each session had some tracks with the same name like "LdVoc" there are duplicate files. I had to go through each one to determine which session they belonged to. Once al the files were in the right session's Audio Files Folder, the sesions opened properly. WHAT THE HECK CAUSED THIS? I've been using Protools since it was Sound Designer and I have never seen this occur.

Correction - Not all files were recovered.

We lost some audio files. It's strange: not only audio files are lost, but even on PT session we have no sign of audio regions related!! It's the same for you? But we have'nt see hidden folders or hidden files with these regions... I tried using FIND in FINDER, adding the tag "visibility=invisible". I found some things but not audio. Can you help me? Can Digidesign help us? Simone Corelli

Did you receive any error messages during the recording process or when reopening the session? If not - this could be an indicator of some kind of disk corruption and, unfortunately, there's not much that can be done other than trying a disk recovery tool or paying a service to recover the data for you.