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Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

02/04/2006 10:14:01 PM · #1

My aunt gave me a cd with old pictures of my family on it so I could repair them. For the life of me I cannot open the pictures. They are hudge bitmaps. What can I do? They also are read only. How can I open and save the pictures as jpegs?

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

02/04/2006 10:17:10 PM · #2

Copy them to a folder on your desktop.
Select all, right-click, check properties, un-select the Read-Only attributes.
Should be able to open them now in your photo editor.

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

02/04/2006 10:19:41 PM · #3

Save them in Photoshop or other lossless format while you work on them. Only save a final edited copy to JPEG.

Olyuzi

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7

Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH

02/04/2006 10:30:29 PM · #4

After unticking the "read only" box in properties, you could open them up in your photo editor if it supports .bmps and batch process them as a save in .jpeg to a new folder. If your photo editor doesn't support .bmp then use paint, which is supplied as part of Windows to save them as .jpeg. Only thing is you will have to do that for each individual photo, as I don't think it has a batch process.

02/04/2006 11:01:26 PM · #5

It isn't letting me copy them to a folder on my desktop. I will try to just copy one picture to a folder and see what happens.

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED

02/04/2006 11:02:36 PM · #6

they won't open in paint either!

nomad469

Nikon D700

02/04/2006 11:04:11 PM · #7

sounds like a bad cd

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

02/04/2006 11:08:33 PM · #8

This is what it says when I try to copy the pictures to my computer..

"Cannot copy Roe-Lecil0002: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)"

What does that mean?

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

02/04/2006 11:09:47 PM · #9

DOS promt and copy contents of the CD to a folder in your root drive?

COPY sourcefilepath\sourcefile(s) destinationfilepath\destionationfile(s)

For example, say you are in the D:\BITMAP directory, and you want to copy all of the BMP files from the D: drive to C:\FAMILY.

COPY D:\*.BMP C:\FAMILY

Olyuzi

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7

Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH

02/04/2006 11:14:51 PM · #10

It may also be that the CD was made with a CD burner that is incompatible with your current drive. In that case, see if you can bring it back to the source and read it from that drive. If you can, then save it to disk with the option for being able to be read on all drives. I know this option exists with the Adaptec software.

02/04/2006 11:15:14 PM · #11

I have no idea what you are talking about. Hick language please.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

02/04/2006 11:17:42 PM · #12

The cd did have three jpeg pictures and one tiff. I was able to open the jpeg ones so I think that the cd is ok. Would any of you be nice enough to let me email you the pictures? Maybe you could convert them to jpeg and email them back to me? Pretty please?

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

02/04/2006 11:19:51 PM · #13

You can e-mail 'em to me if you want...

R.

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

02/04/2006 11:19:59 PM · #14

The most common times you will see the cyclic redundancy check error message is when trying to read data from a damaged CD or DVD. Just before it appears, your CD/DVD drive will probably grind and whirl away - your PC may also become a little slugglish.

Less frequent causes are the result of system crashes, and buggy software (hello Microsoft), incomplete downloads (often identified by the misleading message 'This is not a valid Windows file', 'This is not a valid win32 application' or 'Corrupt Zip file'). If this problem happens frequently with downloads, try using a download manager like GetRight. If you have lots of zip files on your system and want to check they are still valid, get a copy of CD Checker - it's free.

If the discs are damaged, you'll probably need a recovery tool to get back your data. CDCheck 3 will work for CDs and DVDs. First it will check the media, and then you have the option to recover the files. It's free for personal use and has saved many people heartache when it comes to recovering lost digital images and videos from damaged CDs.