[AT] Computer HELP!! Lost Photos

[Dan Glass]

Charlie, I am sure they are all lost and you have to go back and reshoot 
them.   The only other thing that comes to mind is that they may be 
saved (and locked up) by the CD writing program.  Maybe you could check 
and see if the CD program has it saved and will let you write it to the 
CD.  I don't know what program you are using, but most tell you when the 
CD is overloaded and you have to delete some for that files to make it 
fit.  Good luck.

charlie hill wrote:

>Ok I find myself needing to borrow the expertise of the computer pros on the 
>list once again.
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>In March I put  several hundred vacation pictures from Hawaii in a file on 
>my desktop (computer desktop).  My intent was to edit some of them and later 
>load them to CD.  I've been in the file many times and looked at the pics 
>and all was well.   Last night I tried to open some of the pics and they 
>won't open.  I get a message saying the file is "broken and not in usable 
>format".  The computer still recognizes them as .JPG files.  The file names 
>are still just as the camera named them.  The file sizes seem to be roughly 
>the right size.
>There are also a few video clips in the file and they have the same problem.
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>Does anyone know a way I can recover them?  If someone knows how to get 
>inside and look at the files maybe I could send you a couple of them.   I 
>still  have about half of them intact on a camera media chip so I have 
>something to compare them to is someone knows how to do it.
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>Here is what I think might have happened.  All of the files show to have 
>been modified on Oct 31.  It was about that time that I started out to load 
>them to CDR.   I thought all of them would fit on one CD and that if they 
>didn't the computer would promt me to load another CD.  When I tried to load 
>them the computer told me they wouldn't all fit and wanted me to make a 
>change.  At the time I couldn't figure out how to handle and had to leave. 
>I don't remember ever going back and addressing the issue.  However, I think 
>I have looked at some of the photos since then and they were ok.  The only 
>other issue I can think of is that this computer is dangerously close to 
>being out of disk drive space and I have yet to remove some stuff that would 
>help solve that problem.
>
>The photos that are missing are every photo I took on the island of Maui 
>including the road to Hanna or Hana or whatever that town is and a whale 
>watching trip.  Fortunately I e-mailed part of the whale pictures to a 
>friend so I have those in my sent e-mail file but that still leaves me with 
>several hundred priceless photos gone.
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>Thanks
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>Charlie 
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