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07/15/2009 03:36:58 AM · #1 |
Has anybody successfully recovered files that were corrupted during the initial write from the camera?
My co-worker recently discovered lots and lots of photos were corrupted at some point in the process, not sure if it was during transfer from the camera to computer or if the original on the card is kaputt. I don't have the card at my disposal yet, so I can't attempt to recover directly from that as of yet, but these are what I've dredged up so far (all were originally completely unreadable).
Any way to repair stuff like this?
Thanks a lot for any and all help.
Message edited by author 2009-07-15 03:37:24. |
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07/15/2009 08:38:13 AM · #2 |
Good luck with that. We've had probably hundreds corrupted over the past 6-7 years since we first started seeing corrupt ones turn up on the hard drive. We were never able to find a fix to repair the corrupt ones, so I'd be very interested to know if someone has found a fix.
NONE of ours was ever corrupt from the write, or the download. They all became corrupt later. I occasionally will still have a few turn up suddenly corrupted on the hard drive.
We were able to recover most originals from the CF cards, and later, after we started immediately burning to CD, we were able to recover some originals from the CDs.
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07/15/2009 08:44:57 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by LindaLee:
Good luck with that. We've had probably hundreds corrupted over the past 6-7 years since we first started seeing corrupt ones turn up on the hard drive. We were never able to find a fix to repair the corrupt ones, so I'd be very interested to know if someone has found a fix.
NONE of ours was ever corrupt from the write, or the download. They all became corrupt later. I occasionally will still have a few turn up suddenly corrupted on the hard drive.
We were able to recover most originals from the CF cards, and later, after we started immediately burning to CD, we were able to recover some originals from the CDs. |
Yeah, I was reading your posts. I'm not sure where in the process the corruption occurred, which is part of the problem. I'm HOPING it isn't like your scenario and it was due to corrupted file transfer. There's a link to support for RescuePro that says you can send it to them.
Per the RescuePro FAQ:
"I ran the scan, and there are images that show only half of a picture, is there a way to recover the other half of the picture?
Those images are broken on the card, and not recoverable with RescuePRO®. It is possible that the images could be manually recovered. Please contact support@lc-tech.com for details. "
The problem I'm facing here is I have no clue where the corruption was introduced so I'm not really sure what to recommend...the files have been deleted from the card, so that's why I'm approaching things with Rescue in the first place.
I also found a site where a guy was accepting corrupted files because he had figured out some way to do the reconstruct manually but it was time consuming and varied from picture to picture, and he had stopped accepting them.
BTW: the corrupted files were from an ext. HDD, but this was the first time the person had viewed the files other than on the camera.
Message edited by author 2009-07-15 08:46:33. |
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07/15/2009 08:14:12 PM · #4 |
I've been wondering if optimizing files on an external drive caused JPEGs to get corrupted, so I stopped doing it.
I've used GraphicConverter (Mac) to open partial files that nothing else would.
Something to look into: If you open your image in a text editor, you can see the code behind it. I understand sometimes the header gets corrupted and if fixed, can restore the image. I have no idea how to proceed beyond this clue, though!
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07/15/2009 08:41:04 PM · #5 |
When we intially had problems, it was always on a local drive. Later, when I added externals, we saw it there too. Occasionally, we saw the corrupt files upon seeing them right after download; but more often, all the downloaded files were just fine, then when I went back to them days, weeks, months, and even years later - they were corrupted - some would literally corrupt right in front of my eyes!
At first it happened A LOT, then gradually over the years, we have seen less and less of them. We rarely see it on photos taken in the last 2 years. Nearly all of the corruption has occurred in the older files. Hard to say if cameras are an issue because since 2002, we've gone through 7 cameras, and we could never narrow it down to being the fault of a camera.
It's still a mystery. |
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07/15/2009 09:29:24 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by plugsnpixels:
I've been wondering if optimizing files on an external drive caused JPEGs to get corrupted, so I stopped doing it.
I've used GraphicConverter (Mac) to open partial files that nothing else would.
Something to look into: If you open your image in a text editor, you can see the code behind it. I understand sometimes the header gets corrupted and if fixed, can restore the image. I have no idea how to proceed beyond this clue, though! |
Yeah, I looked into that but hex editors are a bit beyond my current knowledge and doing this for 600+ files wasn't too appealing.
 LindaLee, did you have any other file designations corrupt? IE, non-jpeg? |
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