Are all my RAWs fubar'd?

Irish_Tom · 18 Oct 2007 at 18:35

Lo all,

Just tried to process some RAW files from a shoot I did a while back and Photoshop refused to open them. Just installed Rawshooter to check them and they all look like this:

It's not just this folder that's ruined either, pretty much 95% of my RAW's are like that. I have no idea what happened. Everything was working fine yesterday. :confused:

Panzer

Irish_Tom · 18 Oct 2007 at 19:14

I'm guessing the people that have read and haven't replied don't want to tell me the horrible truth that I know already.

Luckily I've got most of them processed and saved as .tiff so I won't lose them for ever but it's nice having the RAW's all the same. It's not looking good for the two folders that I hadn't started processing though. I've got to almost totally clear them.

Panzer

robertgilbert86 · 18 Oct 2007 at 19:19

Have you tried them in Lightroom 1.2? Download the trial

Irish_Tom · 18 Oct 2007 at 19:24

Nah not tried LR but I've just cleared them all now. Going to stick with the ones that are still in tact.

Panzer

ChroniC · 18 Oct 2007 at 23:48

Is this off the memory card or from file?
I ask because you can solve this simply. Use another computer if its off memory and its the same, then they are corrupt (buggered card) if its file, then send to someone else to see if you have comp issues. Elementary my dear watson.

Irish_Tom · 19 Oct 2007 at 08:20

ChroniC said:
Is this off the memory card or from file?
I ask because you can solve this simply. Use another computer if its off memory and its the same, then they are corrupt (buggered card) if its file, then send to someone else to see if you have comp issues. Elementary my dear watson.

Thanks for the solution.

It's all from file so I shall try on another computer. I wouldn't be surprised if it was yet another fault with my computer.

Panzer

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 19 Oct 2007 at 09:30

looks like file errors to me. Looks like the cards failed to write the image but do try them downloaded from different devices. there should be no problem if the images preview fine on the camera.

Irish_Tom · 19 Oct 2007 at 14:13

Fstop11 said:
looks like file errors to me. Looks like the cards failed to write the image but do try them downloaded from different devices. there should be no problem if the images preview fine on the camera.

The thing is it was nothing to do with the memory card, it's all my archived RAWs. Some of them have been sitting on my computer for years, I did a little bit of organising (simply drag-and-drop to new folders within my My Pictures folder and then the above happened.

Panzer

benneh · 19 Oct 2007 at 18:38

Are they from a 30d by any chance?. Rawshooter's a bit arsey. It (essentials iirc) doesn't support 30d .CR2's, and a few others. I would download lightroom and try that tbh, certainly before deleting anything.