I'm curious if anyone here has experienced corrupted hard drive filesystem (file/folder tables) issues after copying/processing image sequences from the Chronos. I have shot exclusively DNG sequences on my 1.4. My workflow is:
1.) Copy the captured files/folders from the camera's SD card to an external hard drive (using either an internal or external card reader)
2.) Apply camera raw edits in Adobe Bridge
3.) Export DNG to JPG or TIFF sequence using Photoshop's image processor
4.) Debanding operation with Topaz that creates another jpg/tiff sequence in a separate folder
5.) Upscale operation that creates yet another jpg sequence.
Over the course of several years on two different Windows 10/11 computers with multiple external hard drives of various brands, I have been seeing file system corruptions very close in time to (or immediately after) this workflow, sometimes as soon as right after the initial file copy from the Chronos' SD card (as in when taking the initial look at the copied files in Adobe Bridge). As in, I view one folder, then another, then go back to the first one, and the first folder is just *gone*. Sometimes the entire *batch* of newly copied folders vanishes. From Bridge, File Explorer, everything. A couple of times it has happened right after I tried renaming one of the copied folders.
These corruptions result in entire directories and files vanishing from the disk. Occasionally everything saved after the date of the corrupting event (including unrelated folders/files like html web pages and other photo/video files) will be either gone or the files un-openable. A chkdsk scan has recovered everything in a few cases, but on several occasions the data was lost. Some of the chkdsk scans have failed with an error “stale information about crosslinks”. In all cases, the corruption did not impact any pre-existing files or folders.
I have been troubleshooting this issue for years now and have never been able to zero in on a cause, but there is a very strong correlation with copying/processing files from the Chronos. I'm not saying it is definitely related to the camera, it could be something in the workflow. I'm just curious if other Chronos users have seen this.
