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<p>Dear Mike,<br>

The problem of how your photo shop recovered the photos is that you lost all the goodness of the RAW format, while the method I used, although more complicated, kept the files as RAW and allowed me to process them later on.<br>

We all need to be really careful when using the Nikon software to open other camera's files and make sure the cameras are supported.<br>

Anyways, thanks for the response.</p>

<p>Hello, Richard. Thanks for your compliment.</p>

<p>I have published the whole story, including a link to the batch file I created, here: <a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/felipe/archive/2010/07/12/140879.aspx">http://geekswithblogs.net/felipe/archive/2010/07/12/140879.aspx</a></p>

<p>I hope this helps other people with the same problem. I would like to thank you all for giving it a shot and also Phil Harvey for his wonderful ExifTool.</p>

<p>Hello all.</p>

<p>Thank you very much for all the replies, I have now solved the issue. Unfortunately I could not convert the files to DNG, that was one of the first things I tried, but after investigating the file itself for a while I found out that the problem lays on its metadata, as I first suspected, since only the auto-rotated portrait photos had a problem.</p>

<p>Removing all metadata from a RAW file is an error, the file still can't be opened that way because some metadata is necessary to interpret how the photo was taken by the camera. I also could not pinpoint what exact item of metadata had the problem, because it seemed to be one of Nikon's specific ones with binary information.</p>

<p>What actually worked was to take another portrait-oriented photo with the D5000, of a white wall (or of a gray card), save the original metadata of the problem file to an XMP file, overwrite all metadata of the problem file with the gray card photo, then restore only the non-Nikon-specific metadata to the problem file. That saved my files.<br>

I have written a script that uses exiftool to do all this, so let me know if anybody needs that and I will send it.</p>

<p>The interesting thing was that I contacted Nikon about the problem and I told them what I did to solve the problem, but I still asked them what was the metadata that caused the problem so I could perhaps write another script that was more specific to the problem, but they were not able to (or wouldn't) tell me. Anyways, my photos have all been corrected now.</p>

<p>Thanks again for your help.</p>

<p>Kind regards,<br />Felipe. </p>

Thanks for all the replies. This whole thing actually happened a while ago so the card has long being reused. It would

be a matter of really working with the files we have now...

<p>William,<br>

Thanks for your reply, and downloading and backing up, then deleting is my normal practice, but it wasn't what was done this time, unfortunately. The file has been downloaded from the SD card using Nikon's software, and deleted from the card.<br>

I have obviously learned from this episode and won't be doing that anymore, but I would still like to recover these files, if possible.</p>

<p>Picture Project opens the file and shows it correctly, although when it is displaying the image it shows a message under it saying "Unknown Error". The option to rotate the image is enabled, I can rotate it in Picture Project but still I can't open it anywhere else.<br>

Also, these files are not in the camera or SD card anymore, they have been downloaded to my computer and deleted from the SD card.</p>

<p>Dear all,<br /> I have a Nikon D40, and my computer has the software that came with it installed: Nikon PictureProject 1.7.<br /> A friend of mine was visiting and he has a Nikon D5000. We used my software to download his RAW files from his camera, and I have the "Rotate image automatically" option on.<br /> Now all the photos that were in portrait orientation have been somewhat corrupted and no software I have opens them, I've tried PictureProject, Photoshop CS4, Lightroom 2, Windows Photo Gallery, Picasa... The photo info seems to be there but I can't retrieve it.<br /> Any ideas?<br /> If needed I can send the NEF file.</p>

<p>Thanks!<br /> Felipe.</p>