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I guess the rosbag process didn't shut down cleanly at the end. After recording, it might need to write an index so it must shut down cleanly.

How did you start rosbag? If you were using roslaunch and the bag file is big, it might happen that roslaunch kills rosbag after 10 seconds.

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