First disaster since going digital! Accidentally formatted a nearly full 1 GB CF card. Tried restoring the images with the Rescue Pro software which came with the Sandisk Extreme 111 card, but to no avail. It seems to have recovered 130 pictures, but I am unable to open any of them.
Does this mean they are unrecoverable? Is there any other software out there that may help? Any help much appreciated! Thanks!
Sometimes when you recover images they come up with a strange code i.e instead of CR2 for a raw it may show something else, If you rename it CR2 it will open
Try Dave's suggestion in his 2nd post - often the recovery software will find the files and will use something like .tif instead of .crw or .cr2 (or .nef if you're a Nikon user) - or even .jpg if you're not shooting RAW. (The first part of the filename isn't important, and the file numbers can be recovered using Downloader Pro or Breezebrowser's rename file functions.)
Photorescue is a decent recovery program with a few powerfull options - it has sometimes managed to find more than the bundled Sandisk rescue program..
If using Windoze, the use Windows Explorer to browse to the file(s), right-click over the file and select "rename". Then delete the .tif bit at the end of the filename, and replace it with .cr2 .
If you've a lot of lost files and don't want to do this individually for each file, then shout up.
Thanks, Nick, but that`s what I`ve been trying to do (in Windows). The files are just named `Raw 00001` etc. There is no .tif suffix visible. If I change the file name to `Raw 00001.CR2`, the file is still a TIF file, and will not open. I just get a `No preview available` message.
Knew I should have paid attention in Computer Studies lessons at school, instead of playing cards.
Any ideas (in simple language!).
Hi Jeremy. Don't panic. Follow the instructions below:
1. Open 'My Documents' folder.
2. Click on Tools
3. From the drop down menu, click on 'Folder Options...' - A pop-up dialogue will then appear
4. Click on the 'View' tab at the top.
5. Scroll down the list of check boxes until you find "Hide extensions for known file types"
6. Uncheck the checkbox
7. Click 'OK'
You may have to log off/restart windows for the action to take effect. When you do, the icons should now appear with their file extensions revealed.
Micro$haft decided in their great wisdom to make Windoze easier for idiots to use and that they would hide a lot of "unneccesary" stuff that people don't really need to use or know about - one of those things is the 3 letter filename "extension".
The following assumes you're using Windows XP.
Although you can't see it, it is still there and you need to change a setting in Windows Explorer to make them appear. Start Windows Explorer, browse to the folder you have your piccies in. Once you can see the files, then select the menu "Tools->Folder Options". When the folder options window appears choose the tab that says "View". On the "View" tab you'll then see a scrollable list with check boxes against each option - find the one (usually under "Files and Folders") that says "Hide extensions for know file types" and remove the tick against it.
Now you have a couple of options - you can either just enable the option for this folder (click the "Apply" button), or you can apply it to all folders (Click the "Apply to all folders" button), and then click "OK" to get rid of the dialogue box.
Hopefully you should now see the .tif bit on each file, and more importantly you can actually change it. What you where doing before, when the extension was hidden, was changing "file0001.tif" to "file0001.cr2.tif".
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10 repliesDoes this mean they are unrecoverable? Is there any other software out there that may help? Any help much appreciated! Thanks!
Try PC Inspector from www.convar.com should be a fee download
Try Dave's suggestion in his 2nd post - often the recovery software will find the files and will use something like .tif instead of .crw or .cr2 (or .nef if you're a Nikon user) - or even .jpg if you're not shooting RAW. (The first part of the filename isn't important, and the file numbers can be recovered using Downloader Pro or Breezebrowser's rename file functions.)
Photorescue is a decent recovery program with a few powerfull options - it has sometimes managed to find more than the bundled Sandisk rescue program..
Good luck.
If using Windoze, the use Windows Explorer to browse to the file(s), right-click over the file and select "rename". Then delete the .tif bit at the end of the filename, and replace it with .cr2 .
If you've a lot of lost files and don't want to do this individually for each file, then shout up.
Knew I should have paid attention in Computer Studies lessons at school, instead of playing cards.
Any ideas (in simple language!).
1. Open 'My Documents' folder.
2. Click on Tools
3. From the drop down menu, click on 'Folder Options...' - A pop-up dialogue will then appear
4. Click on the 'View' tab at the top.
5. Scroll down the list of check boxes until you find "Hide extensions for known file types"
6. Uncheck the checkbox
7. Click 'OK'
You may have to log off/restart windows for the action to take effect. When you do, the icons should now appear with their file extensions revealed.
Micro$haft decided in their great wisdom to make Windoze easier for idiots to use and that they would hide a lot of "unneccesary" stuff that people don't really need to use or know about
The following assumes you're using Windows XP.
Although you can't see it, it is still there and you need to change a setting in Windows Explorer to make them appear. Start Windows Explorer, browse to the folder you have your piccies in. Once you can see the files, then select the menu "Tools->Folder Options". When the folder options window appears choose the tab that says "View". On the "View" tab you'll then see a scrollable list with check boxes against each option - find the one (usually under "Files and Folders") that says "Hide extensions for know file types" and remove the tick against it.
Now you have a couple of options - you can either just enable the option for this folder (click the "Apply" button), or you can apply it to all folders (Click the "Apply to all folders" button), and then click "OK" to get rid of the dialogue box.
Hopefully you should now see the .tif bit on each file, and more importantly you can actually change it. What you where doing before, when the extension was hidden, was changing "file0001.tif" to "file0001.cr2.tif".
Aint Micro$haft wonderfull and helpfull
Hope that helps