Restoring quicktime to original length after "trim to selection" debacle.

After trimming a selection in Quicktime Pro, I accidentally saved the file, now I have a one-minute clip that is 9.7 GB on the hard drive. I'm using QTpro 7.1.5, how do I get my file back to the original length?
I have seen this issue post on this forum twice before, and have tried the replace "free" with "moov" fixes posted there. However, that solution was for a QT 7.0 file, and there are some discrepancies ("[free" is "fREe" and when I change it to "moov", I get an unopenable file).
A freind suggested dragging the whole thing into Final Cut, does anyone know if that will work?
Please help.

hi lown,
I had the same problem as you, accidentally saved an unwanted trim over my original quicktime file. I found a solution based on this discussion:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4136088&#4136088
Basically you need a Hex editor to search and replace "free" to "moov" in the quicktime file. You can use a Hex editor like this one called Hex Fiend,
http://www.ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
The thing is not to use "find and replace all" instead, only find the "free" that makes sense in a line, instead of the ones combined together with other characters (without spacing).
Hope it works for you. After you edited it, save it as a separate file.
Robin

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