Stuffit Standard compression (.sit) - am I screwed?

[cosiz]

I had hours worth of 5min video clips (around 1gig each) and having limited hard drive space, I packed 'em up -- 9 files in each folder and compressed them using Stuffit Standard 7.01.

Now, trying to unstuff them I get an damaged file error while still decompressing the first .mov in each compressed folder. Nothing salvagable as far as I can tell.

I thought Stuffit 7 was supposed to work okay with files over 2gig?

Did I completely screw myself?

What method should be used (if any) for archival compression of DV files?

Cheers,
Bryan

[WiseWeasel]

DV is a compression, albiet a pretty lousy one. Just keep them as .mov. If you need smaller files, try compressing to MPEG2 or something. As far as recovery goes, I think you're boned.

[tgpo]

I know of no other way to recover the files. Have you updated the Stuff It software? If so try to go back to the version you compressed with. As for the archival of DV mov files I'd say keep them as they are. Just burn them to disks or find a cheap hard drive to copy them to.

[cosiz]

Yeah, I didn't think there was any possible way to recover my files... Just goes to show -- It's Best to Test!

Still can't believe I just assumed compressing them would work without testing first! Oh well, perhaps this thread will save someone else's work.

Thanks for the replies!
Bryan