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[allanuk]

The lovely meteor that I accidentally deleted today. It crossed my 6mm fov in the north facing camera just after 11pm on the 2nd Dec. Its path almost covered the entire frame from side to side. Quite bright and not too fast. Difficult to pinpoint the position or trajectory now that I've lost it, but I'd guess at somewhere between Oxford and Northampton travelling NNE to SSW.

I was attempting to re-analyse the avi to correct a slight error in the trajectory path and clicked the delete button by mistake.

Unfortunately for me, any files deleted from within UFO Analyser don't end up in the recycle bin. It seems they get deleted permanently. Such is my loss, it was a really good clip.

[stewartw]

Hi Allan,

I possibly caught the beginning of it on my SE facing camera (which is rotated 90 degrees within the CCTV housing and so what appears to be the bottom of the FOV is actually the left hand side) - timed at 20141202_230504 - does this sound about the right time?

It's an easy mistake to make and I've done the same myself ... I now always make a copy of the data and perform the analysis on the copy. Have you tried any file recovery software ... I've successfully used Recuva (see www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-free-recovery-software-1141256) ... check the options during the installtion so you don't get a load of unwanted utilities.

Best regards

William

[arp]

Hi Allan,

Another precaution against losing a valuable recording by accidental use of 'Delete a Clip' or 'Delete All' is to untick the 'Do Not Use Trash Box' option in the Operation tab in UFO Capture.

This (usually) ensures that even though the AVI clip - and its associated files - have been removed by UFO_C they can be found in the Windows Recycle Bin. Perhaps you have already set this.

Anyway, I also captured the meteor on my Leeds_SE camera.

Cheers,

Alex.

[allanuk]

Yes I would put money on both those captures being the same one I deleted. I'm gutted because I caught the whole trail across the frame and never got to finish analysing it. (and because I'm new to this and its exciting. )  I had only just activated the cam at 11pm when I saw the stars appearing from the clouds. This was only the 2nd meteor of the night.

I have the trashbox unchecked in UFO capture  and deleted clips do go in the recycle bin. The problem is when I deleted the clip from OFO Analyser. It doesn't go to the bin but just vanishes into the Ether.

I'll try a recovery app and see if I succeed.

Its good to know that we all have overlapping coverage.

[allanuk]

Interesting little recovery proggy William, but even with a deep scan it failed to find anything that was deleted with UFO Analyser. Twas a good try though.