How to?

[bill_harris1]

I ran Lexar rescue...I have over 120 photos I recovered but, so far

I have not found a way to open these files..Can anyone help out?

[david_h._hartman]

You should be able to access the memory card as a drive on

your computer whether it is a MAC or PC. You need to give more

details. Did your rescue program save the files? If so where? Did

you try to save the files after the Lexar program found them?

What kind of file did the Lexar program save them as if the

rescue program saved them? Can you tell what the file extension

is if you have a PC? If you are running Windows 2000 or XP you

should set the computer so Windows shows the file extension. If

nothing else this helps you avoid clicking on a Trojan Horse in

your e-mail.<br>

<br>

DO NOT use that memory card in your camera or write to it until

your photo files are safely saved to your computers hard

drive!<br>

<br>

Ive used SanDisk RescuePRO 2.0.0.9 and it worked well. Im

sure the Lexar program does too. Please give more details and Im

sure someone will walk you through the process.<br>

<br>

Dave Hartman.

[bill_harris1]

David

Maybe this information will help..I am running XP on a Pc..I saved these to Lexar drive..copied to a disk..P/S and Arc Soft will not open them because they do not recognize the file extension...It runs something like this..JPG 000,001,002, etc, At the moment I have them on a cd..I am at a loss how to open them...Maybe some Good Samaritan will see this and help out..

[Prof-K]

I'm not an expert on this...but have you tried manually changing the extensions (after you copy them to your harddrive), and then try it again?

[david_h._hartman]

Do you know if you were shooting *.JPG, *.NEF or Both? I they

are on your hard drive and if you have a free program called

IrfanView 3.95 along with the extra plugins you can just rename

them to *.JPG and IrfanView will open it and warn you if it has

the wrong extension. IrfanView will ask if you would like to

correct the file extension. Im pretty sure it will not try

to open a file with no extension.<br>

<br>

OK, it looks like IrfanView will misidentify an *.NEF file as a

*.TIF because there is an imbedded TIF thumbnail. In that case

you can press the F6 KEY and enter an extension of NEF in the

dialogue box provided. IrfanView will then reopen it as a Nikon

NEF file. The way you can tell if IrfanView is misidentifying the

file is the image opened will be very low resolution image with

big block pixels.<br>

<br>

Some cameras will save files as *.TIF files. It they are *.TIF

then the image will open with good resolution. You can easily go

through all the files in a folder by pressing <Enter> once

you have one file open in IrfanView to use full screen mode. Then

you can press <Page UP> or <Page Down> or right click

and left click on your mouse, no need to point at anything in

full screen mode, and the files will change like the remote on a

slide projector.<br>

<br>

Here is a link to Two Cows...<br>

<br>

<a href="http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html" target="_new"><u>http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html</u></a>

<br>

<br>

...look for License: <u>Freeware</u> and...<br>

<br>

Also Available:<br>

* <u>Irfan View Plug-ins</u><br>

<br>

Download both, install both. The install asks if you want to

change the default program that opens various files. I assign *.JPG

to IrfanView and leave everything else as is. Ive had no

problems with this IrfanView. Ive used it for several years.

It just keeps getting better and better.<br>

<br>

Hope this makes sense, hope this helps,<br>

<br>

Dave Hartman.

[johnw63]

If you know how the files were saved on the memory card, jpg, raw, tiff...ect. All you should need to do is change the three letter extension to the proper type, like jpg. I often do this quickest in a DOS prompt by using the rename command:

 

rename ( old name ) ( new name )

 

example:

rename file.tif file.jpg

 

Windows wants to forget those pesky file extensions and doesn't let you control them very well.