Hello,

I shot about 130 jpegs last week and had to recover all of them with image recovery software. The problem is there's only about 30 of them that are usable. The rest are color banded, half gray, or just not recognizable.

I've got to figure this out pretty quick or schedule a reshoot.

Is there any reputable software anyone could recommend?

Thanks.

Here's a couple of the worst. Wow these are bad! Am I out of luck?

Attachment #1, (jpg file)
Attachment #2, (jpg file)

I've seen that happen to the odd image file in the past. I have not come across any solutions other than to re-shoot. Peter

You should definitely check out the memory card these were on. It looks like the images may not have been properly recorded.

Charlie...
stalking light

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Thank you for the replies.

I've tried some of the online software. They all recover images but none could repair.

I will have to re-shoot.

They looked good during the shoot. What happened was during the upload my computer completely froze. I had to power down and after this the card read empty.

I'd use a different card on the reshoot if I were you. Have you tried chkdsk (PC) or disk utility (mac) on the card to see if there are any errors on the media?

Charlie...
stalking light

Nikonians Team Member

>I had to power down
>and after this the card read empty.

Do you have your software set to erase the card during/after reading? I don't do that. Sometimes I even enable the write protection tab on the card. I then treat the card as a backup until I have made a backup some other way.

Peter

>>I had to power down
>>and after this the card read empty.
>
>Sometimes I even enable the write
>protection tab on the card.

Peter, that’s a darn good suggestion that never crossed my mind, thanks for posting it.

And Mike, I have also had my PC freeze on me when I was using Windows Explorer to transfer the images off the card. But before I powered down or soft-reset my PC I removed the reader from the USB port and never experienced what you have.

Perhaps you did do that, but just in case I thought I would mention it for future reference.

Peter

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I have a similar problem that I don't know how to fix either. I got all of the images off the card but when I went to open them every one of them were thumbnail size and I don't know how in the world I managed to save them that way but is there anyway to undo it? thanks!

>I went to open them every one of them were thumbnail size

A bit more information is needed to diagnose your issue.

What file type are you working with? What program are you trying to open them in?

For instance when I try to view an NEF with Windows Fax and Picture Viewer all it displays is the embedded thumbnail view being that it cannot read and rasterize the raw data.

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