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So I had my shoot today with a model for headshots. I brought my 512 and 128 cf cards. I was using my 512 card and we were going ok. I shoot about 30 pictures and reviewed them with her along the way. When I shoot a couple more, I got an Err 2 which I know is CF related. So I took out the CF and put it back in. Camera says "no image" on it and gives me 80 shots left (which is what is started with). So I need help recovering those files!

I have a mac and tried to use norton, but it didn't even recognize the card. I tried to repair permissions on it - didn't seem to help. Any other suggestions? All the pictures are in raw. I was able to get 17 more shots with my 128 card...but I would love to have the ones off the 512 card. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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My little test site for right now:
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roiegat said:
So I had my shoot today with a model for headshots. I brought my
512 and 128 cf cards. I was using my 512 card and we were going
ok. I shoot about 30 pictures and reviewed them with her along the
way. When I shoot a couple more, I got an Err 2 which I know is CF
related. So I took out the CF and put it back in. Camera says "no
image" on it and gives me 80 shots left (which is what is started
with). So I need help recovering those files!

I have a mac and tried to use norton, but it didn't even recognize
the card. I tried to repair permissions on it - didn't seem to
help. Any other suggestions? All the pictures are in raw. I was
able to get 17 more shots with my 128 card...but I would love to
have the ones off the 512 card. Any help would be greatly
appreciated! Thanks.
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Hi,

the fastest solution I can think of is to find an access to a PC that has a CF card reader and use a software such as Davory ( http://www.x-ways.net/davory/index-m.html ) or winex ( http://www.winhex.com/ ).
Hope this help.

Jean-Luc
 
Download Data Rescue and try it. If it can see the files on the card (which is in your card reader, I presume), then pay for the software.

I've got the Mac OS X version of their complete Data Safety Suite sitting here unopened. I figured I'd install it one day :-)

Shirley
roiegat said:
So I had my shoot today with a model for headshots. I brought my
512 and 128 cf cards. I was using my 512 card and we were going
ok. I shoot about 30 pictures and reviewed them with her along the
way. When I shoot a couple more, I got an Err 2 which I know is CF
related. So I took out the CF and put it back in. Camera says "no
image" on it and gives me 80 shots left (which is what is started
with). So I need help recovering those files!

I have a mac and tried to use norton, but it didn't even recognize
the card. I tried to repair permissions on it - didn't seem to
help. Any other suggestions? All the pictures are in raw. I was
able to get 17 more shots with my 128 card...but I would love to
have the ones off the 512 card. Any help would be greatly
appreciated! Thanks.

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My little test site for right now:
http://homepage.mac.com/roiegat/Misc/PhotoAlbum71.html
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I have quite a few image recovery progreams, but all unfortunately for the PC. Very good ones are Digital Image Recovery and PC Inspector. The latter of these is freeware, so if you have a friend with a PC and a card reader, this might be the answer. I would avoid at all costs putting it back in the camera till you recover the files.
roiegat said:
So I had my shoot today with a model for headshots. I brought my
512 and 128 cf cards. I was using my 512 card and we were going
ok. I shoot about 30 pictures and reviewed them with her along the
way. When I shoot a couple more, I got an Err 2 which I know is CF
related. So I took out the CF and put it back in. Camera says "no
image" on it and gives me 80 shots left (which is what is started
with). So I need help recovering those files!

I have a mac and tried to use norton, but it didn't even recognize
the card. I tried to repair permissions on it - didn't seem to
help. Any other suggestions? All the pictures are in raw. I was
able to get 17 more shots with my 128 card...but I would love to
have the ones off the 512 card. Any help would be greatly
appreciated! Thanks.

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My little test site for right now:
http://homepage.mac.com/roiegat/Misc/PhotoAlbum71.html
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Bill.
 
thanks Shirley. I found an app called Media Recover on the OSX download page. It seems to have found most of the pictures. I'll defintly buy it if it can recover them.

So should I stop using the CF all together after this or should I just zero the data and use it?
ShirleyKat said:
Download Data Rescue and try it. If it can see the files on the
card (which is in your card reader, I presume), then pay for the
software.

I've got the Mac OS X version of their complete Data Safety Suite
sitting here unopened. I figured I'd install it one day :-)
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My little test site for right now:
http://homepage.mac.com/roiegat/Misc/PhotoAlbum71.html
 
I got a recovery program that seems to be getting the picture back. It's finding some jpegs (small) and the CRW raw files. Shouldn't there be thm file as well? Is the CRW file all I need to recover?
 
roiegat said:
I got a recovery program that seems to be getting the picture back.
It's finding some jpegs (small) and the CRW raw files. Shouldn't
there be thm file as well? Is the CRW file all I need to recover?
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Yes, if you have the CRW files recovered and if you know you only took raw file on that card just before you got the error, then it should be ok.

It is possible that the software you use recovered previous jpeg images that were previously deleted (just removed from the file allocation table of the flash card) but still present is the free space, that had not been overwritten with fresh data.

Good to hear that you got your pictures back!

Jean-Luc
 
Good to hear. Now how do I convert them? I can't seem to get C1 to read them. When I open them in photoshop it doesn't recognize the type. I'm fairly new to C1, so I might now be doing it right...for photoshop I just tried to open it.

The file sizes are about 5 megs. So that seems about right.

any suggstions...

Thanks for all your help guys.
 
Lexar includes a good recovery program with each high speed card it sells. OS X and Windows versions. You need a 1 gig card anyway, right? :)

$189 at Tiger Direct. Just an idea, if you're not pressed for time (or funds).
 
roiegat said:
Good to hear. Now how do I convert them? I can't seem to get C1
to read them. When I open them in photoshop it doesn't recognize
the type. I'm fairly new to C1, so I might now be doing it
right...for photoshop I just tried to open it.

The file sizes are about 5 megs. So that seems about right.

any suggstions...

Thanks for all your help guys.
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You are doing nothing wrong!
It is simply that the software didn't extracted the files correctly.
Can you post a link to the software you used?

If it is a shareware version, then maybe it filled with zeros the files, but just showed you that they could be extracted from the CF.

a CRW file always start with the following sequence of bytes:
49491A00000048454150434344520200

Try to zip one of the extracted file, and send it to my email jeanluc at free.fr, I will try to edit it in a hexadecimal editor and see if I can open it on a pc, or see what went wrong in the extraction.

Jean-Luc
 
The THM file is just a jpeg - if you change the extension it can be rerad as one. Your recovery program has probably recognised them as jpegs and named them as such.
JeanLuc said:
roiegat said:
I got a recovery program that seems to be getting the picture back.
It's finding some jpegs (small) and the CRW raw files. Shouldn't
there be thm file as well? Is the CRW file all I need to recover?
Click to expand...
Yes, if you have the CRW files recovered and if you know you only
took raw file on that card just before you got the error, then it
should be ok.
It is possible that the software you use recovered previous jpeg
images that were previously deleted (just removed from the file
allocation table of the flash card) but still present is the free
space, that had not been overwritten with fresh data.

Good to hear that you got your pictures back!

Jean-Luc
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Bill.
 
Your right...all the jpeg's are the small jpes (I have the hack installed).

Let me change them to THM and see if that gets them read. If not, I'll email them to jeanluc!
Bill McKelvie said:
JeanLuc said:
roiegat said:
I got a recovery program that seems to be getting the picture back.
It's finding some jpegs (small) and the CRW raw files. Shouldn't
there be thm file as well? Is the CRW file all I need to recover?
Click to expand...
Yes, if you have the CRW files recovered and if you know you only
took raw file on that card just before you got the error, then it
should be ok.
It is possible that the software you use recovered previous jpeg
images that were previously deleted (just removed from the file
allocation table of the flash card) but still present is the free
space, that had not been overwritten with fresh data.

Good to hear that you got your pictures back!

Jean-Luc
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Bill.
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My little test site for right now:
http://homepage.mac.com/roiegat/Misc/PhotoAlbum71.html
 
The software is:
http://www.mediarecover.com/support.html

Seemed to find jpeg's very well. So next time I'll shoot RAW+Large just in case. I'll try to email you one of the smaller ones Jeanluc...thanks!
JeanLuc said:
roiegat said:
Good to hear. Now how do I convert them? I can't seem to get C1
to read them. When I open them in photoshop it doesn't recognize
the type. I'm fairly new to C1, so I might now be doing it
right...for photoshop I just tried to open it.

The file sizes are about 5 megs. So that seems about right.

any suggstions...

Thanks for all your help guys.
Click to expand...
You are doing nothing wrong!
It is simply that the software didn't extracted the files correctly.
Can you post a link to the software you used?
If it is a shareware version, then maybe it filled with zeros the
files, but just showed you that they could be extracted from the CF.

a CRW file always start with the following sequence of bytes:
49491A00000048454150434344520200

Try to zip one of the extracted file, and send it to my email
jeanluc at free.fr, I will try to edit it in a hexadecimal editor
and see if I can open it on a pc, or see what went wrong in the
extraction.

Jean-Luc
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My little test site for right now:
http://homepage.mac.com/roiegat/Misc/PhotoAlbum71.html
 
Since I'm on a mac, not too many zip compressors (although I can extract them easily). So going the "what would steve jobs do?" route...I put one of the files on my imac website. You can find it and download it at:

http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=roiegat&templatefn=FileSharing101.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.101.xml&sitefn=TKSite.4.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en

I'm currently working on the 17 pictures that did come out ok. Some of those are great in themselves. I'll post the results later.
 
FYI, if your mac is running a newer version of OS X, you can make .zips by simply right-clicking on the file and choosing "create archive." (or ctrl-click if you don't have a two button mouse).

Good luck with the recovery!
Shaun
roiegat said:
Since I'm on a mac, not too many zip compressors (although I can
extract them easily). So going the "what would steve jobs do?"
route...I put one of the files on my imac website. You can find it
and download it at:

http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=roiegat&templatefn=FileSharing101.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.101.xml&sitefn=TKSite.4.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US?=en

I'm currently working on the 17 pictures that did come out ok.
Some of those are great in themselves. I'll post the results later.
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Did you rename it when you put it on your dot-mac site? It should be CRW_.CRW.

Photoshop CS doesn't recognize it here either. Maybe the software you're using can't deal with raw files? Check out http://www.prosofteng.com . They have a picture rescue application that looks really good from the copy on the web site. If that's what you need to get the raw files, it might be worth the $59. The free demo copy will show you a list. You can select and recover one file per session.

Shirley

roiegat wrote:
I put one of the files on my imac website. You can find it
roiegat said:
and download it at:

http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=roiegat&templatefn=FileSharing101.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.101.xml&sitefn=TKSite.4.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en

I'm currently working on the 17 pictures that did come out ok.
Some of those are great in themselves. I'll post the results later.
Click to expand...
 
Shirley,

I just downloaded that program and will test it out. I didn't rename the pictures, mediarecover did. I tried adding the CRW in the beginning, but that didn't help. I'm not sure if the naming convention has anything to do with it since C1 since to rename them as well when it imports them.

Overall I think today was a learning experience I wont soon forget. I will be getting a lexar 512 card next month to have as backup to my current 512 and 128. I did a zero data on the 512 card and will test it out in the next several weeks. I'm hoping the full reformat will do the trick. Once I do get the lexar card I will probably use that as a primary card.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their quick help. As a teaser I'm attaching one picture from the 17 I took on my 128 megs card, I'll post more later:

 
Remember you have two jpegs - the thmbnail and the embedded one. The hack changes the size of the embedded one, not the thumbnail. I think your program has more likely found ther thumbnails.
roiegat said:
Let me change them to THM and see if that gets them read. If not,
I'll email them to jeanluc!
Bill McKelvie said:
JeanLuc said:
roiegat said:
I got a recovery program that seems to be getting the picture back.
It's finding some jpegs (small) and the CRW raw files. Shouldn't
there be thm file as well? Is the CRW file all I need to recover?
Click to expand...
Yes, if you have the CRW files recovered and if you know you only
took raw file on that card just before you got the error, then it
should be ok.
It is possible that the software you use recovered previous jpeg
images that were previously deleted (just removed from the file
allocation table of the flash card) but still present is the free
space, that had not been overwritten with fresh data.

Good to hear that you got your pictures back!

Jean-Luc
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Bill.
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My little test site for right now:
http://homepage.mac.com/roiegat/Misc/PhotoAlbum71.html
Click to expand...
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Bill.
 
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