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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Lee_D on February 12, 2007, 19:11:22

Title: Image recovery.
Post by: Lee_D on February 12, 2007, 19:11:22: I have about three folders of images which have somehow become corrupted. The images will not open, Don't appear as thumbnails when viewing in directories and even my backup's appear the same. No problems with thousands of others. The only other backup's I have are now on my website and far smaller than the actual pictures.
Can any one help! [-o<
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: DarrenG on February 12, 2007, 19:38:11: Couldn't be something as simple as the wrong or missing file extension could it?
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: AbyssDJ on February 12, 2007, 19:56:14: what are the file sizes of the images that wont open? average, like...
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: DarrenG on February 12, 2007, 20:02:27: If you wish, email me one of the problem image files and I can take a look an tell you if it corruption or something simple :) darrenATpocketgpsworld.com .
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: Lee_D on February 14, 2007, 18:25:32: Quote from: "DarrenG"
If you wish, email me one of the problem image files and I can take a look an tell you if it corruption or something simple :) darrenATpocketgpsworld.com .

YHM :)
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: Lee_D on February 14, 2007, 18:26:43: Quote from: "abyssdj"
what are the file sizes of the images that wont open? average, like...

picked one at random 340k , still show on properties as a JPEG image but none of my software is having any, tried renaming too to no avail.
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: DarrenG on February 14, 2007, 19:15:27: Bad news I'm afraid. All three of those files have been wiped, although they are nominally the right size they just contain zeroes and so are unrecoverable :(

What AV do you use?
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: Lee_D on February 14, 2007, 20:34:46: Sorry Darren I'm uncertain of the question, they were taken on a Kodak digital camera and have only been read by some image resizing program by digital dutch other than Windows picture viewer.

Lee
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: DarrenG on February 14, 2007, 20:42:02: I meant what Anti-Virus software you have. It's worrying that something has zeroed all the .jpg files somehow :?
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: Lee_D on February 14, 2007, 23:28:24: Ahh McAfee... sorry totally missed that one.

More interesting when I went to a backup on a DVD they also were corrupt which means they have been corrupt for a long time, prior to my last image backup at least. :cry:

Lee
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: Loncbt on February 14, 2007, 23:43:58: Lee, there is a program out there called Dont Panic, that recovers photos....it does take a while to do it but is really good!

PM me for more info!!!!
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: Lee_D on February 14, 2007, 23:50:28: Yebbut... your image in your sig is unavailable :shock: ....PANIC! :lol:
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: tomarse on February 15, 2007, 01:02:00: I got given a laptop to fix this week on which many of the photos and mp3's had been corrupted somehow so that i couldnt get them off.

I'd suggest perhaps some sort of data recovery software. I've not personally used any but my colleague bought some software a few months back which he used to get some data back off a drive that had got knackered. It got a lot back. I'll check with him what it was called (I think it cost us about Ã‚Â£50 to buy). Someone here might have some recommendations. In your case it might not help if they got corrupted a long time ago, data recovery often only helps when things are deleted or moved about recently.

Have you tried the simple things like running scandisk on the drive? that can often return lost files.
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: DarrenG on February 15, 2007, 07:55:52: The corrupted images (if the rest are the same as the samples I was sent) are unrecoverable. The files are completely empty so no recovery application would be able to repair them as there's nothing to work with!
Title: Image recovery.
Post by: Loncbt on February 20, 2007, 23:39:56: Quote from: "Lee_D"
Yebbut... your image in your sig is unavailable :shock: ....PANIC! :lol:

Thats cos Photobox is a big pile of dog poo!!!!!

and i cant be bothered to sort it out!!!!