File Recovery Question

Hello, I am completely at my wits end with a file recovery issue that I
have been dealing with as of late, and I wanted to see if anyone out
there has experienced this problem and has had some luck with
troubleshooting it.

Being the absent-minded person I am in the mornings, I was uploading
pictures of my newborn from my Nikon digital camera to my laptop.
Thinking I would be smart and efficient, I selected the pictures to be
automatically deleted from the camera as they were uploading to my
laptop's hard drive. Our camera's memory card was full at the time of
pictures that are already on our laptop, so in my moment of brilliance,
I moved the majority of the pictures (without looking at them) over to
the recycle bin, then immediately turned around and deleted them from
the bin. I assumed the pictures I was deleting were some of the older
photos we already uploaded previously, and not the newer ones I was
looking to keep...

Turns out I deleted many of the pictures I wanted to keep, so I then
downloaded several file recovery programs to try and get those JPG
pictures back. The good news is I was able to locate and "recover" the
JPG files in question. The bad news is that I am unable to open the
files.

The error message I get from the files I try to open is "couldn't
display 'xxx.jpg' because a suitable graphics importer could not be
found". I've tried opening these pictures using the default quicktime
program, as well as MS paint, photoviewer, and every web browser
imaginable. Nothing is working.

Since it appears I have recovered the actual JPG's, does anyone know
how to remedy this graphics importer problem I seem to be experiencing?


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nbkdk6q

 

wrote:
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>
> Hello, I am completely at my wits end with a file recovery issue that I
> have been dealing with as of late, and I wanted to see if anyone out
> there has experienced this problem and has had some luck with
> troubleshooting it.
>
> Being the absent-minded person I am in the mornings, I was uploading
> pictures of my newborn from my Nikon digital camera to my laptop.
> Thinking I would be smart and efficient, I selected the pictures to be
> automatically deleted from the camera as they were uploading to my
> laptop's hard drive. Our camera's memory card was full at the time of
> pictures that are already on our laptop, so in my moment of brilliance,
> I moved the majority of the pictures (without looking at them) over to
> the recycle bin, then immediately turned around and deleted them from
> the bin. I assumed the pictures I was deleting were some of the older
> photos we already uploaded previously, and not the newer ones I was
> looking to keep...
>
> Turns out I deleted many of the pictures I wanted to keep, so I then
> downloaded several file recovery programs to try and get those JPG
> pictures back. The good news is I was able to locate and "recover" the
> JPG files in question. The bad news is that I am unable to open the
> files.
>
> The error message I get from the files I try to open is "couldn't
> display 'xxx.jpg' because a suitable graphics importer could not be
> found". I've tried opening these pictures using the default quicktime
> program, as well as MS paint, photoviewer, and every web browser
> imaginable. Nothing is working.
>
> Since it appears I have recovered the actual JPG's, does anyone know
> how to remedy this graphics importer problem I seem to be experiencing?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

I'm sorry to tell you this but in all probability the files you recovered are
corrupted. This is why you can't open them as .jpg is a standard file format
that should be easily opened by various programs.

If you still have the camera card, you may be able to retrieve them with
data recovery software. Or, since the pictures are of your newborn baby and
hence Very Important, contact a professional data recovery company. I use
Drive Savers () but there are others. Professional data
recovery is expensive, but only you can decide what the value of your files
is. At the least, you could call the data recovery company to see what the
cost would be.

If professional data recovery is out of the question, you might try Recuva
or even Photo Rescue 3 from .

And now you know not to automatically delete anything like that again
without having a backup burned to DVD.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

 

On 9/23/09, the entity Malke wrote this:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> wrote:<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro--><!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>>
>> Hello, I am completely at my wits end with a file recovery issue that I
>> have been dealing with as of late, and I wanted to see if anyone out
>> there has experienced this problem and has had some luck with
>> troubleshooting it.
>>
>> Being the absent-minded person I am in the mornings, I was uploading
>> pictures of my newborn from my Nikon digital camera to my laptop.
>> Thinking I would be smart and efficient, I selected the pictures to be
>> automatically deleted from the camera as they were uploading to my
>> laptop's hard drive. Our camera's memory card was full at the time of
>> pictures that are already on our laptop, so in my moment of brilliance,
>> I moved the majority of the pictures (without looking at them) over to
>> the recycle bin, then immediately turned around and deleted them from
>> the bin. I assumed the pictures I was deleting were some of the older
>> photos we already uploaded previously, and not the newer ones I was
>> looking to keep...
>>
>> Turns out I deleted many of the pictures I wanted to keep, so I then
>> downloaded several file recovery programs to try and get those JPG
>> pictures back. The good news is I was able to locate and "recover" the
>> JPG files in question. The bad news is that I am unable to open the
>> files.
>>
>> The error message I get from the files I try to open is "couldn't
>> display 'xxx.jpg' because a suitable graphics importer could not be
>> found". I've tried opening these pictures using the default quicktime
>> program, as well as MS paint, photoviewer, and every web browser
>> imaginable. Nothing is working.
>>
>> Since it appears I have recovered the actual JPG's, does anyone know
>> how to remedy this graphics importer problem I seem to be experiencing?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> I'm sorry to tell you this but in all probability the files you recovered are
> corrupted. This is why you can't open them as .jpg is a standard file format
> that should be easily opened by various programs.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> If you still have the camera card, you may be able to retrieve them with
> data recovery software. Or, since the pictures are of your newborn baby and
> hence Very Important, contact a professional data recovery company. I use
> Drive Savers () but there are others. Professional data
> recovery is expensive, but only you can decide what the value of your files
> is. At the least, you could call the data recovery company to see what the
> cost would be. <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> If professional data recovery is out of the question, you might try Recuva
> or even Photo Rescue 3 from .<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> And now you know not to automatically delete anything like that again
> without having a backup burned to DVD.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> Malke<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

OTOH, if the OP lacks appropriate software to read jpegs (that's not
what it sounds like, but...), he could download IrfanView and try to
open the files from inside that program.

I also wonder if the file recovery was done on the hard-drive files, or
on the flash memory card. I know there is software than can (or claims
to) recover files from flash memory cards...which might work better
than trying to recover files on the computer's hard drive, given the
likely disk activity in Windows.

And to the OP: I hope you can get them back. Best of luck.

--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com

 

"undisclosed" wrote in message news:016b902eb8e8955f6c9c019d4fb7ceda@nntp-gateway.com...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
>
> Hello, I am completely at my wits end with a file recovery issue that I
> have been dealing with as of late, and I wanted to see if anyone out
> there has experienced this problem and has had some luck with
> troubleshooting it.
>
> Being the absent-minded person I am in the mornings, I was uploading
> pictures of my newborn from my Nikon digital camera to my laptop.
> Thinking I would be smart and efficient, I selected the pictures to be
> automatically deleted from the camera as they were uploading to my
> laptop's hard drive. Our camera's memory card was full at the time of
> pictures that are already on our laptop, so in my moment of brilliance,
> I moved the majority of the pictures (without looking at them) over to
> the recycle bin, then immediately turned around and deleted them from
> the bin. I assumed the pictures I was deleting were some of the older
> photos we already uploaded previously, and not the newer ones I was
> looking to keep...
>
> Turns out I deleted many of the pictures I wanted to keep, so I then
> downloaded several file recovery programs to try and get those JPG
> pictures back. The good news is I was able to locate and "recover" the
> JPG files in question. The bad news is that I am unable to open the
> files.
>
> The error message I get from the files I try to open is "couldn't
> display 'xxx.jpg' because a suitable graphics importer could not be
> found". I've tried opening these pictures using the default quicktime
> program, as well as MS paint, photoviewer, and every web browser
> imaginable. Nothing is working.
>
> Since it appears I have recovered the actual JPG's, does anyone know
> how to remedy this graphics importer problem I seem to be experiencing?
>
>
> --
> nbkdk6q<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

The files may be in jpeg2000 format:


Try Irfanview to open them:

 

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:44:54 +0100, undisclosed wrote:
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> Hello, I am completely at my wits end with a file recovery issue that I
> have been dealing with as of late, and I wanted to see if anyone out
> there has experienced this problem and has had some luck with
> troubleshooting it.
>
> Being the absent-minded person I am in the mornings, I was uploading
> pictures of my newborn from my Nikon digital camera to my laptop.
> Thinking I would be smart and efficient, I selected the pictures to be
> automatically deleted from the camera as they were uploading to my
> laptop's hard drive. Our camera's memory card was full at the time of
> pictures that are already on our laptop, so in my moment of brilliance,
> I moved the majority of the pictures (without looking at them) over to
> the recycle bin, then immediately turned around and deleted them from
> the bin. I assumed the pictures I was deleting were some of the older
> photos we already uploaded previously, and not the newer ones I was
> looking to keep...
>
> Turns out I deleted many of the pictures I wanted to keep, so I then
> downloaded several file recovery programs to try and get those JPG
> pictures back. The good news is I was able to locate and "recover" the
> JPG files in question. The bad news is that I am unable to open the
> files.
>
> The error message I get from the files I try to open is "couldn't
> display 'xxx.jpg' because a suitable graphics importer could not be
> found". I've tried opening these pictures using the default quicktime
> program, as well as MS paint, photoviewer, and every web browser
> imaginable. Nothing is working.
>
> Since it appears I have recovered the actual JPG's, does anyone know how
> to remedy this graphics importer problem I seem to be experiencing?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

It's a little unclear exactly what you did - but you should certainly be
able to recover the files from the camera memory card if you've not done
any additional mucking with it. Recovery from the computer is much more
problematic because portions of the photos may already have been
overwritten.


For future reference, it's much better to reformat the camera card - in
the camera - after you've downloaded all the photos than to delete and
save. Although you probably won't have problems if you delete all the
pictures, if you delete some of them and then save new images, the card
can become corrupted. It seems some cameras do not deal well with the
ensuing fragmentation - reformatting will fix that.

 

I think you need a photo recovery software for your deleted photo's. You
can search on net for photo recovery software. I had very good
experience with stellar data recovery but I haven't used photo recovery
software of this company. But It works ...

cheers...


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jakati