[AT] Computer HELP!! Lost Photos

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Tue Dec 11 09:12:09 PST 2007


Larry I think you might be right about the space.  I'm pretty sure I've 
looked at the photos since 10/31.  However, I downloaded a couple of pieces 
of software in the last couple of days.  Space might be ther problem.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Computer HELP!! Lost Photos


> Look at the properties of your hard drive and check the percentage of 
> space
> available.  It's possible that you don't have enough cache left to open
> them.  For some strange reason, this is often a percentage value of the
> total storage space available rather than an absolute value.  When the
> amount of free space falls below 20% very strange things like you are
> describing start occurring.  On a laptop that I used to own, I got this 
> sort
> of flaky response to big files (like photos) and I would have to delete
> unused programs and files in order to get free space and get things back 
> to
> normal again.
>
> This "unwritten" rule goes back to the early days of microcomputing.  I
> first heard it at a corporate seminar sponsored by IBM in Chicago back
> around 1983.  You would have thought that would have changed by now, but 
> my
> experience has shown otherwise.  The disk image of the CD for writing the
> material may still be on your hard drive.  It may help to simply run the
> disk cleanup routines.
>
> YMMV.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:39 AM
> Subject: [AT] Computer HELP!! Lost Photos
>
>
>> Ok I find myself needing to borrow the expertise of the computer pros on
>> the
>> list once again.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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