Serious problem Lion, LR3. Help me SOS!

[yvawoo]

I am working on LR3 to edit some of the pictures I took before with Canon 5dMKII, and found that more and more pictures are turning into this horrible mass. I upgraded OS X to Lion a few months ago, and before that none of these was happening. Just to see if the original is intact, I opened some pictures from cannon Image Browser, and they were okay, however on the OS X lion finder, the same destructed images are seen on the thumb nail. I exported images with standard method as JPEG from LR3. As time goes by more pictures are getting affected. It started in one picture, and now many of them are showing these defects. I deleted some of affected pictures and re-imported from camera and some of the pictures are continuously getting affected. Please help me ASAS!

















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[Bob Rockefeller]

Create a virtual copy of one of them and see if that looks OK.

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[Robert Peters]

I suggest you start by testing your hardware. This does not sound like a Lightroom problem.

 

[pprior]

Agree- looks like you've got a corruption problem. Get a backup of all assets immediately and not a time machine one, an actual hard drive backup.

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[yvawoo]

Thank you for the answers.

I am transferring the files now to a different hard drive. I hope the damage is not too big.
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[graybalanced]

I agree with everyone. This looks like a problem with data transfer of some kind. It could be a bad drive, a bad cable, a bad interface chip on the motherboard, bad RAM... If you transfer to another drive and it still happens, try another cable. If it still happens after that, do additional process-of-elimination troubleshooting.

Last time I saw this was on the last shots on a specific card. That card was going bad.

 

[TheChefs]

Like mentioned, you are having hardware issues. It could be your memory card too.

After you copy your data, the easiest thing to check is to scan hard disk for any bad bocks. If you are getting too many of them on the hard drive, It means the hard disk is on the way out and you should replace it ASAP.

The next thing you can test is ram. Run memtest86+ or memtestosx (google search) overnight and see if it finds corrupted memory.

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