Re: OT: corrupted .NEF files
You could try the ufraw utility. Its intended use is a gimp plugin for reading raw data. There is a stand-alone ufraw utility that will run on windows. http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/index.html a list of cameras it will work with is here: http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html Installation details are here: http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html the windows information is at the bottom of the page. You would likely be most interested in the |ufraw-0.10-setup.exe| <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ufraw/ufraw-0.10-setup.exe?download> To use ufraw you must first install the GTK+ toolkit available here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html I've never used it so I don't know if it will work Gord Keith Gerling wrote: >I've recently returned from Turkey, where I was fortunate enough to see >great places, meet wonderful people, and eat fabulous food. This was my >first trip where I relied totally upon digital capture methods, and I >traveled with a thoroughly tested 20 GB hard drive backup. Said drive >started acting suspect as soon as I started storing my precious shots, and I >became very concerned. Fortunately, a very patient Loris Medici humored my >paranoia by allowing me frequent inspections of my drive by using his >laptop. My files were indeed present, although we could not see the .NEF >files, an anomaly I attributed to a missing Photoshop plugin (or whatever). >I switched over to taking mostly .jpeg files, figuring that would lesson the >load on the drive. However, I did continue to shoot .NEF for those >"important" shots. > >Cut to the chase: I return home to find a hardrive in total disarray. Some >files OK. many showing gibberish for names. After a day or so of panic and >stupidity, I find an application, PC Inspector, which over the course of 16 >hours rescues most of my files. Whew! The first files I had uploaded to >the drive, mostly Nikon raw files (.NEF) were fine. 90% of the .jpegs are >fine. But the later .NEF files (the aforementioned "important" ones, while >recovered by PC Inspector, still will not open in Photoshop (unexpected EOF) >or with Nikon Capture (non-supported file). On many of them I see a >thumbnail. Looking at the Hexcode of the file I can see that there IS some >kind of data in man of them, while some of them are totally empty. > >I'm hoping that somebody here might know of a low-level viewer that might >open these files by "brute force". I suspect that they mught be damaged >(obviously), but I'd much rather have a truncated file or one missing a >channel or two than the alternative: nothing at all. > >Thanks! > > > > > > > >
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