2000 pictures ruined, please help!

Something Else · 8 Jul 2012 at 19:15

just got back from the F1 at silverstone and ive taken the pictures off my camera and put them onto my computer and pretty much every single picture has been turned into a grey tile showing a tiny portion of the image at the top

here is what has happened.

has my hard drive screwed these up some how?

Paul11 · 8 Jul 2012 at 19:17

put the card back in your camera and see if you can view the pictures on it

Something Else · 8 Jul 2012 at 19:24

ill give it a go but the thing is i didnt copy them over as the card was full, ive just cut and pasted them into my folder on the hdd.

Something Else · 8 Jul 2012 at 19:27

its not allowing me to put them back on the card, ffs, im gonna have a fiddle with some stuff

famous last words...

andrewdodd13 · 8 Jul 2012 at 19:33

Those files are way too small to contain 24MP images. It looks to me like there was an issue copying them off the SD card? You might be able to use something like Recuva on the SD card itself as long as you don't write any new data to it.

Something Else · 8 Jul 2012 at 19:42

andrewdodd13 said:
Those files are way too small to contain 24MP images. It looks to me like there was an issue copying them off the SD card? You might be able to use something like Recuva on the SD card itself as long as you don't write any new data to it.

your right mate,

the messed up ones are about 130kb but the proper ones that work (which is about 50% of the total pics taken) are around 10mb

im angry and upset atm but i did receive a free version of some recovery software with my sandisk card so ill give it a go

cokecan · 8 Jul 2012 at 20:03

First thing to do is flick your card into read only mode...just in case. As above, I believe there should be a chance you can retrieve the originals

PistolPete · 9 Jul 2012 at 13:48

Also try the standard answer for deleted photos from SD cards - Recuva

http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download

Paul11 · 9 Jul 2012 at 17:11

and never cut and paste

always. copy and paste so you still have a copy of them on the card until your sure they copied correctly

then format the card in the camera

/not much help , i know, but good practice for future

A.N.Other · 9 Jul 2012 at 17:33

See what Recuva can get off the card. You *should* be able to get them back if nothings been written over the top.

dav3evans · 10 Jul 2012 at 18:13

Recuva is awesome. When I used it on a card I actually got some shots from 3 shoots ago. Definitely worth trying. Takes a while though.

Something Else · 10 Jul 2012 at 23:24

the card reader in my computer is really playing up, ever since i re managed the cables it hasnt worked properly it keeps disconnecting mid tranfer which is what caused this issue in the first place, also it has stopped readin the sandisk extreme at constant 40-50mbs and instead barely does 7mbs

cheers for the help though but looks like ill have to get a usb card reader before trying to fix anything

Gaffer · 10 Jul 2012 at 23:50

Paul11 said:
and never cut and paste

Maybe.

There is an issue with copying too. It happens when you make a mistake. You intend to copy all the images but you make an error and only copy "most" of them. This can happen through a selection failure (you intend to select all, but don't scroll far enough). It can happen through an i/o error - you get a message but it ends up hidden or erroniously dismissed. It can happen because your photo ID number rolls past 9999 and Canon puts the rest of the images into a new directory, which you overlook.

In all these cases. if you copy then format, you may well end up deleting pictures you wanted to save.

I move (not copy) off the drive. All successfully transferred images are immediately deleted from the card. Anything I miss due to error or failure remains.

Oh, and I use the best cards... In my case, operator error is much more likely than card failure.

Andrew

PS: I actualy use a shell script to do the move, rather than mouse clicking, but that's just the way I roll.

GSXRMovistar · 11 Jul 2012 at 13:09

I never delete anything wanted unless I know there are two other copies elsewhere. Memory cards get zapped once the files are on my mac and backed up on home server.

Seen so many people lose important/valuable info/pics due to lack of backup strategy

NealR · 11 Jul 2012 at 13:19

GSXRMovistar said:
I never delete anything wanted unless I know there are two other copies elsewhere. Memory cards get zapped once the files are on my mac and backed up on home server.

Seen so many people lose important/valuable info/pics due to lack of backup strategy

Hence a copy on my laptop, copy on my PC, automatic live online backup(recognises changes in the selected DIR's and backups automatically if it detects a change/addition) and I have a random SATA HDD that I use to store just the photo's on as another backup

Probably overkil, but better to safe than sorry

dav3evans · 11 Jul 2012 at 13:27

NealR said:
Hence a copy on my laptop, copy on my PC, automatic live online backup(recognises changes in the selected DIR's and backups automatically if it detects a change/addition) and I have a random SATA HDD that I use to store just the photo's on as another backup

Probably overkil, but better to safe than sorry

Agreed. I've got copies on PC, mirrored raid, NAS drive and Dropbox anything that is really important.