[AT] Computer HELP!! Lost Photos

[charlie hill]

Dan I would tend to agree with you except that the data is still there and 
the computer still recognizes them as Jpeg files.  It just says it can't 
open them.  I think you are correct about the instruction by the CD utility 
to delete some files.  That is where I got stopped and had to leave before I 
figured out how to handle the situation.  However, usually when something 
like that happens the computer keeps prompting that there are files that 
need to be written.  I have more than one program that writes CD's I'll 
check them all.  Maybe they are still in a cache somewhere.

Thanks

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Glass" <dglass at mail.newnanutilities.org>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Computer HELP!! Lost Photos


> 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.
>>
>>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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