What happened to my pictures? :(

<p>About 30 minutes ago I looked through the pictures I took today on my Nikon D80. I went and did some cleaning, then came back to put them on my computer, but when I tried looking for them using photoshop, they were not there. I thought maybe it was just photoshop being dumb, but I went to My Computer and the drive that my memory card is, and found that the pictures were still not there. I even took my memory card out of my laptop and put it back in my camera, but they are gone. What's <strong>really </strong>strange is that only the photos I took today are gone, all of the thousand or so that I took on other days are still on there. Please help me out, I don't understand how they can be gone if I JUST looked at them.</p>

<p>By some odd chance, did you manage to have a second directory on your SD card? [i've not used a D80 for a couple of months...maybe the camera cannot make a second directory for images to be stored in as you take your images.] And is your copy of Photoshop equal to reading .NEF files?</p>

<p>And you may consider getting a copy of IrfanView (cost = zero) for your computer. It may make reading files easier.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure my copy of photoshop can read .NEF files, but even if it can't, I can no longer even see the pictures on my camera like I did only an hour ago.</p>

<p>The key to the puzzle could be in your statement:<br>

<em>" I went and did some cleaning, then"</em><br>

What exactly did you do ?</p>

<p>@Frank Skomial <br /><br />Haha, I just did some dusting around the house. I left my camera in my room and cleaned, returned to put the pictures on my computer to find that they were gone.</p>

<p>Is it possible you reached the cards capacity, and never actually got the pictures in the first place? Otherwise, perhaps there's a problem with the card.</p>

<p>Try running one of the recovery tools on your card before you do anything else with it. SanDisk and Lexar both offer free trail versions of their recovery tools. </p>

<p>It is possible that you checked the always do this action on windows... </p>

<p>Dave</p>

 

<p>check your recycle bin on windows or trash on a mac with the card in the reader to see if they are there.</p>

<p>"...all of the thousand or so that I took on other days are still on there."</p>

<p>One more question....what size SD card are you using in your D80? If, somehow, you have a thousand or so (.NEF) files, you are not in the 1Gb to 2Gb SD card range. It's possible that you have a SDHC card with a larger capacity, but the D80 does not know it can write and write image to the SDHC card. This would result in *lost* images....</p>

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<p>Do you have some software on your computer that imports photos when it detects a card? If so, it's possible it imported them and then deleted the originals from the card, in which case they will be somewhere on your hard drive (in the directory that the import software is defaulted to). I personally don't use any kind of 'Delete originals after import' option, but I know it does exist on some software.</p>

<p>I suspect you won't find this helpful, but why are you keeping "a thousand or so" images on a card? I could see it if it were all one day's shooting, but if these are from previous shoots it's just clutter, and clutter can lead to unforeseen consequences in terms of file systems.</p>

<p>Check out the idea that a new subdirectory (in Macspeak, "folder") was automatically opened at some count or such. Mount the card on the desktop and look at it with the normal OS file tools, and maybe it will be there inside another folder?</p>

<p>Good luck in any case.</p>

<p>I have a similar problem i wonder if anybody can help,<br /> I took a load of photos today and they showed up on my camera after i took them, yet when i transferred them onto my compuer the last 150 images were "corrupted" :( any ideas why or if i can recover them?<br /> Theyre not showing on my camera anymore either, just showing a red box with a red cross in it.<br /> Would it be down to the SD card? Would formatting the SD card prevent this from happening again?<br>

Its a 32 GB SD card by the way so theres more than enough space on it</p>

<p>My SC cards do not always make 100% contact with connectors when I push the card into my Camera or Reader.. Often I just have to eject the card and push it in again and all is well..<br>

Also if my iPod is plugged into the card reader neither works at the same time.. </p>