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recovering photos from external drive

  • 23-12-2018 11:55PM
    #1
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,891 ✭✭✭


    So I used Recuva to recover lost photos . However I cannot open the photos as it says that they don't support the file format ( which is JPG )


    Anyone know how I can view/save photos ?


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  • #2
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭mordeith


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    So I used Recuva to recover lost photos . However I cannot open the photos as it says that they don't support the file format ( which is JPG )


    Anyone know how I can view/save photos ?

    Where did you recover them to? What are you using to try and open the images?


  • #3
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,891 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    mordeith wrote: »
    allthedoyles wrote: »
    So I used Recuva to recover lost photos . However I cannot open the photos as it says that they don't support the file format ( which is JPG )


    Anyone know how I can view/save photos ?

    Where did you recover them to? What are you using to try and open the images?
    I recovered them to a separate folder in Dropbox drive and Microsoft photo to open.
    Having no joy.


  • #4
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭mordeith


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    I recovered them to a separate folder in Dropbox drive and Microsoft photo to open.
    Having no joy.

    Is the Dropbox drive on your laptop /pc or cloud based?


  • #5
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,891 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    mordeith wrote: »
    Is the Dropbox drive on your laptop /pc or cloud based?
    Sorry that was typo error . I used the D drive on PC . I downloaded Recuva and Wondershare recoverit . But neither works


  • #6
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭mordeith


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    Sorry that was typo error . I used the D drive on PC . I downloaded Recuva and Wondershare recoverit . But neither works

    What size are the recovered files? Recuva may be able to recover them completely


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  • #7
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,359 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Chances are that the data (or parts of it) has been overwritten, even tho recovery software may seem to recover data there is no guarantee that said data is what it should be
    Try opening them with something like http://www.faststone.org/ or https://www.irfanview.com/ and if that doesn't work then they are cyber dust

    And in future have an auto cloud backup in place


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