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Corrupted NEFs

  • 14-03-2011 4:25pm
    #1
    quicklickpaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭


    I was away for the weekend and took about 300 pictures and now at least half (and pretty much all the good ones) just won't open in any software I have... I have a plugin for Windows Media Player, View NX2, Picasa and Creative Suite 5 and one way or another they all say they can't read the files (even though they say NEF and are about the size they should be.

    Some of the files that will open are badly corrupted - for example half of one image is just yellow and black blocks and others you can only see about 10% of the image because the rest is blocked by black and grey blocks

    Has anybody experienced this before? And if so have you been able to fix it??

    Thanks in advance

    EDIT: Oh I should probably mention that I got a 16gb memory card from China very cheap so that could well be the issue and might make it easier to figure out how to recover the files!


Comments

  • #2
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,185 ✭✭✭nilhg


    How do they look on playback in the camera?

    TBH, I'd say you've answered your own question, cheapo card from China is more than likely to be your problem, if the files were corrupted writing to the card it's unlikely you'll recover them.


  • #3
    quicklickpaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭quicklickpaddy


    No, the playback was grand for the whole weekend. I put them into View NX2 and they were alright for a while, then I tagged the ones I wanted and when I tried to export them they just wouldn't work. So the only thing I can think of is that View NX2 did something to them? Because when I put the card back in the camera now it says it can't read those photo's, even though it could before


  • #4
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,185 ✭✭✭nilhg


    Did you copy them off the card before working on them?

    It seems that view NX2 has tried to write come info back to the files on the card and this has resulted in some corruption?

    I don't use View NX2 so don't really know where you could go next, some of the Nikon guys might have an idea.


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