wendyholden Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I am in a panic. One section of photos are missing from my wedding images from last Saturdays wedding. I saw the images Saturday night but didn't try to back them up until I got home on Monday. I know... stupid stupid stupid. They seem to have disappeared. I have run two recovery programs (from seperate disks--not from my hard drive) but I don't see the pictures anywhere. Any ideas? They are not critical to the wedding, and are a small portion overall of the pictures I took but, I am sick over it. I am too Type A to chalk this up as a hard lesson learned (yet). The files are NEF and jpgs and my system is XP.Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
press_photog Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Are they still on one or more of the memory cards? Are you missing a memory card? Did you try a search of your hard disks (*.jpg)? Did you check your recycle bin? I also have software that allows me to look at deleted files in any directory, and recover them as well. How did you transfer them from camera to hard disk? Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_degroot Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 go to www.ztree.com download ztree ver 1.49 works with xp after 30 days it should be registered. pay kim henkel his $$$ L (log f2 f2) c ( no : required) logs the entire drive then F *.jpg ( sets filespec for just jpg or jpeg ( type the right fileending ). and you will see the whole drive and ALL jpegs ( be sure you use the right suffix for the files) you can also make it full screen by the config in the shortcut NOT in the program . you can sort by date or anything. alt s ( then hit) D ( date) try it , it's free for 30 days and makes NO REGISTRY entries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_squire Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 <P>Wendy,</BR> If the pictures are still on the flash cards, or if you have formatted them and not used them since. You can use chkdsk from the cmd prompt </P><P> chkdsk /F [Card/Camera Drive Letter]: </BR><P> this will resserect any pictures as .chk, you can then rename them to *.jpg(or whatever they are) </BR><P> This is a last resort but its worth a shot, I've recovered no end of peoples pics with this. </BR> Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedding-photography-denver Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Another thought, did you reformat and use a card inadvertently and therefore over wrote the missing shots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belledeux diana Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Wendy, Do you have a program for the NEF files? My NEF files used to come up easily enough in PhotoShopCS, but now they seem to be set to come through another program...a tryout my mother put on the computer...XP....down the tryout is over, because when the NEF files try to come up there, it no longer works.... So you might think if you added another program or not since your last download..... I haven't solved my own little problem yet.....so I can't offer help there.....I just know I have that problem......the files are not gone....just bringing them up has gotten a little tangled...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyholden Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 Belle, I think you might be on to something. I added a few programs that might be messing me up. Unfortunately, after a variety of search attempts, I still can't find anything. No luck in the Recycle Bin either. I still have my memory cards but the one that I used for these images has been written over already. I used Nikon View to transfer the files. I am not giving up. I will try the ztree solution next. The more I work on this, the more obsessed I am becoming. I can see every useless picture that I have ever taken so, it does not make sense that not one of this image group is showing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 There is a lesson in this for all of us: Never reformat and over write a CF card before you KNOW you have the images in 2 places other than the card itself. When I used to shoot Nikon I had all kinds of screw-ups and conflicts with the Nikon software. So did all of the Art Directors that used it to process my images. I once lost Nikon shots like you are experiencing, and eventually found them in the trash when I inserted the CF card and opened the trash file. They did not show up on the Cameras LCD review, nor on the computer screen until I inserted the card in a reader and opened the computer's trash. No one anywhere was able to figure out what happened. Programs and computers aren't perfect any more than the folks using them. We eventually removed the Nikon softwear from our computers, and just used the PS 7 RAW plug-in, and eventually the PhotoShop CS RAW developer. Never had a problem after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afs760bf Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Maybe there's another lesson. There must be something to this film thing. Just a thought :>) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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