The Worst That Could Happen

10 May

To get a fucking _err CF_ just after 6gb of non-stop shooting.

Losing 811 files is one thing; teaching yourself a crash course in computer forensics for image recovery at internet cafes in India at Rs25/hr and 50.2kbps, is another.

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  • managed to retrieve most of it except for the last folder of pictures (which was a pity; i thought some best shots were in there). decided that i would just format the card anyway, to continue using it, instead of being upset about it and spoiling my big trip (i get mortally _upset_ - not just regular upset - when computers and cameras don't work the way they should, and sometimes i can't sleep until i solve it :P ).

    have a pretty fast 1gb card as a well, that i'm sure is a better option right now compared to my big-ass (and big time slow) CF, but that goes into the point and shoot for stupid pictures and videos of myself drinking lassi.

    oh well.

    what a nightmare.
  • Night
    This is sad.. but dont worry I've been in your shoes before. Im so lucky to recover most of the pics but not all in full. Some of it corrupted.

    Same advice as Colin. DONT use (writes on) the card anymore unless you have recovered all your files.
  • oh dear.. hope u get them back! hugs!
  • i have a jpegrecover tool (its something I whipped up in C, on a taxi ride back at about 5am in the morning), and it will run on OSX/Linux just fine. it recovered all my jpg's (I didn't shoot raw back then... but i'd imagine its still fairly easy to change the header matching)

    do you want/need it? drop me some mail...

    btw, 6gb card? there's a reason I carry several 1gb cards :P i find that to be safer

    the important thing now is, till you've recovered the images, don't overwrite the card. keep it in a safe place till you get 6gb of data back (which you generally will, don't worry)

    [-(byte@serena)-(ttyp1)-(06:26P:11/05/2006)-]
    [-(~)> ls -alF code |grep jpeg
    -rw-r--r-- 1 byte byte 1375 Oct 30 2005 jpeg_recover.c

    yup, still have it sitting here. phew :-)
  • Oh boy.

    Any luck with the recovery?
  • ouch... hope dat cf card comes back to life. otherwise.. there are ways to restore the pics i think
  • Wen
    OMG I hope u get them back!
  • Ack. Sorry that happened...Good luck with the recovery. Fingers crossed.
  • e
    Gosh, i know how that feels. Good luck!
  • w.
    Ouch. Hope you recover them.
  • Bir
    Hi Adri !

    two things.
    Hope you get all yr pics back. Cant help you technically i am not a mac guy ! Anyway, hope bombay gives u a nice welcome, dont try the trains at 8:30 and 5:30. Dont miss the wada pao !

    Second, in your previous post you mentioned about the "chick" irony. I guess it is also there in one of my comments on yr section with the "tandoori vagina" ... as passing thought mah !

    have fun ~

    bir
  • ow nooo.. hope you manage to recover the photos, there are quite plenty of utilities to recover files out there.
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