photophile Posted June 4, 2010 Share #1 Posted June 4, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) 30,000 plus images on my M8 - today shot a critical series ( I have M6 back-up images ) and for some bizaare reason...the card failed to register 21 sequential images. They were there when I chimped. I used a sandisk recover program - not there. I tried to have the camera find them...not there. Just disappeared. Any suggestions to what happened - and what can be done to get them back. BTW - the counter on card showed no loss of the 21...but the camera info sequence jumps 21 images ahead between picture 706 and 707. Thanks. Coos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ho_co Posted June 4, 2010 Share #2 Posted June 4, 2010 The fact that the "files available" count didn't drop is not good, because it means the space isn't used. First, don't do anything more with the card. Best bet is probably to lock it. Probably then copy it or (better, if you're on a Mac), make a disk image of it; and then work on the copy. Second, I don't know what they are, but there are better image recovery programs than the SanDisk one. Someone will pop up with suggestions. Third, they may be recoverable, but your best bet in the interim is to reconcile yourself with the fact that they're probably gone. Sorry for the problem. Really scary that the camera would skip any, but especially so if it skips a batch that big. ... the camera info sequence jumps 21 images ahead... Just to be sure--your "Unique Image ID" skips that number, or the file names increment by that many, or both? My M8 sometimes skips a couple file numbers, but the "Unique Image ID" increments only by one between images. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
photophile Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted June 4, 2010 Howard - thank you. I will wait for suggestions on other recovery software. The problem is now whether to trust the camera with another card..or if the problem is camera related. So far, it has never acted up...and although I have some film images just to ensure something " in case"..the primary shots in character and in quantity - were with the digital rig. Best. C Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted June 4, 2010 Share #4 Posted June 4, 2010 the card failed to register 21 sequential images. They were there when I chimped. I used a sandisk recover program - not there. I tried to have the camera find them...not there. Just disappeared. Any suggestions to what happened - and what can be done to get them back. My guess would be that the card file structure index (or whatever it is called) had corrupted somehow. As the files were there when you chimped but had later disappeared I'd suggest that it is possible the later image files may well have overwritten them, which would make sense if the camera could no longer 'see' them and recovery doesn't work. My own course of action would be to run additional image recovery software on the card (just in case) - try googling alternatives - and then to no longer use that card. If it hasn't happened before in 30,000 exposures then I'd personally suspect that its more likely to be a card problem. Every time that I have had an image problem it seems to have been card or card reader related. I'm now using 2 x Sandisk II 16Gb cards which have proven very trouble free so far but I have a collection of smaller cards which I rate with varying degrees of reliability. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
photophile Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted June 4, 2010 Thanks Paul - am still working on it..but suspect these files are now part of the "ether".... Best. Coos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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