[DigiCam] Re: recovering corrupt digital film images

[Loren Smedberg]

From: Loren <lorensmedberg at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: "Digital Camera List" <DigiCam at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Subject: [DigiCam] Re: recovering corrupt digital film images
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003

Hope it's not contagious, I just had the same thing happen to  a 32 mb 
SmartMedia Card  (Memorex) 1 yr old.
I only had a few photos stored on it . I have a Microtech Card Reader and 
previously as I tried to get it on to the desk top I would get the  message 
"CARD ERROR" , finally if I try to get it recognized it crashes my Mac. (733 
G4 - 9.2) Fuji MX700 shuts it self down with card installed . It 's been 
working fine untill I tried to down load pictures today.



>From: ShirleyK <ShirleyKat at cox.net>
>Reply-To: "Digital Camera List" <DigiCam at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>To: "Digital Camera List" <DigiCam at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: [DigiCam] Re: recovering corrupt digital film images
>Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:34:49 -0700
>
>So, have you been able to format the card and rescue it for future use?
>
>Shirley
>
>
>
>On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 09:36  AM, Nathan Lim wrote:
>
>>When I first ran across the corruption on the card, I had not yet  written 
>>or
>>deleted any files/images using the computer. The card was working well
>>before the corruption.
>>
>>I tried Data Rescue's PhotoRescue, but I was not able to recover the
>>corrupted images in the short time I played with it.
>>
>>http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/
>>
>>
>>- Nate
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------- -
>>
>>Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:42:36 -0700
>>Subject: [DigiCam] Re: recovering corrupt digital film images
>>From: ShirleyK <ShirleyKat at cox.net>
>>Message-Id: <50A49E24-9889-11D7-BD98-000A9575988A at cox.net>
>>
>>It shouldn't make any difference which operating system READS the card.
>>Did you WRITE to it or delete any images from it using a computer
>>instead of the camera? I guess things are more relaxed these days and
>>you can do that, but since it was a big no-no with my first digital
>>camera, I've always let the camera do all of the writing and deleting.
>>
>>If you can't get any computer (or printer) to recognize the card, I'm
>>afraid you will have to try to format it (with the camera). It will
>>destroy the pictures, of course, but since they already appear to be
>>destroyed, you are now trying to salvage the card. It sounds to me as
>>if it was already corrupted before it got to the PC.
>>
>>Had the card been working well before this last problem? A friend had a
>>similar problem with a compact flash card, but it was the first time he
>>used it, so it had to be replaced.
>>
>>Shirley
>>
>>
>>On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 08:39  PM, Nathan Lim wrote:
>>
>>>I thought I remembered seeing a discussion about recovering images  from
>>>digital film some time ago, but at the time I did not have any corrupt
>>>media, so it was not of interest to me.
>>>
>>>Well, as you might have guessed, I now have a 128 MB SmartMedia card
>>>that
>>>has corrupt images on them. The card claims to have no images on it,
>>>but it
>>>only has a few MB free and we know we took pictures that we have not
>>>downloaded. Anyone know how to recover these images?
>>>
>>>At one point we, ahem, put the card in a SanDisk card reader on an XP
>>>machine (I know, I know, my first mistake) and the volume mounted
>>>showing
>>>many folders (presumably one for each image) with gibberish for
>>>filenames.
>>>Taking the card out we could read/preview the images on the camera,
>>>but when
>>>we took some more pictures and downloaded those, the first set
>>>"disappeared". We can no longer preview the images in the camera and
>>>the
>>>folders do not appear when mounted from the SanDisk media reader.
>>>However,
>>>the card still has some already allocated space (i.e. the corrupted
>>>images).
>>>
>>>Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>>- Nate Lim
>>
>>
>>
>>
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