Hi guys,

my mom just came back from vacation with her new digital camera proud to show me her picture but… coze there is often a but :D
the files seems to be corrupted since she can only get 40 pictures out of 200. How ever, when i got it the “album” file ( in the mmc) to see the index i can see all of her picruer but with a 12ko resolution… it sucks !!!

When i look in the file where the 40 “good” pictures are, i find a bounch of files with weird names and weird size. According to windows there a more or less 3go each… since it s only a 256mb card it s kinda strange…
Any idea?! did you guys already have that prob with a camera?
DO you know any good digital camera forum where i could post that despered message?
BTW: we have a caisio exilim c 40

thanks very much :!:  :wink:

in english, it’s “kb” for “kilobyte” instead of “ko” for “kilo-octets”, keep that in mind or you will confuse a lot of people (I only know of the “kilo-octets” because I’m french, others don’t)

Concerning your problem: sorry, but the filesystem on your memory card is corrupted. there’s not much you can do against it, it’s broken. reformat the memory card and if it hasn’t any hardware failure you can use it normally again, but the existing data is lost (apart from the photos you still can get down).

i would probably be able to get most of your photos if not all from your memory card, but you have no such possibility, sorry :(

thanks french buddy,

Few questions, first sorry for the Ko/Kb thing :oops:  and thanks for the correction..

How did that happen? The camera is brand new so is the memory card (SD) never been used.

How would you do to get all those picture back? Some kind of magic power you don t want us to know about :wink:
Come on.. won t tell anybody about you being a wizard..
seriously if you thing you can save the mmc i can have it shipped to germany…

thanks man !!! I think i found all my pictures…. at least i hope it s not the little thumbs size that i had in the index…

anyway, could some one give me the full version, a crack or a serial… pleassseeeeeeeeee :D
thanks so much

by the way i like the new “winter cover” over the board

Is $29 too much to pay to get your pictures?  I bought the software even before I needed it so that I would have it in case of emergencies.

It’s saved my ass more than once.

Just spend the $29 bucks.  Geez.

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Few questions, first sorry for the Ko/Kb thing :oops:  and thanks for the correction..

Looks like you found the solution of your problem, but I will answer you anyway

How did that happen? The camera is brand new so is the memory card (SD) never been used.

Why that did happen, frankly, I have no idea. It could be a bug in the camera software (ominous, isn’t it) or a minor hardware glitch anywhere…

But how and what happened, that seems pretty clear: Your memory card has a filesystem on it (something like e.g. FAT, NTFS, ext2…), otherwise you wouldn’t have the concept of “files” and “directories” on it. Somehow, your filesystem metadata got corrupted. With some bad luck, even a single wrong bit can cause some bad corruptions. In your case, it seems that a bit more got f*ed up.

How would you do to get all those picture back? Some kind of magic power you don t want us to know about :wink:

No, there isn’t ANY magic about computers And the principle is kind of simple, too:

First, I would just assume that your camera places your pictures onto the media without any great fragmentation. You said camera and media were brand new, so it’s a pretty safe bet.

Then, I would look at the media itself. Note that I wouldn’t mount it, or see it as a filesystem, I would look at it in a very raw manner. Think of your memory card as if it were a really big file in which there is a filesystem, which creates the concept of files and directories. Well, I don’t care about the filesystem meta structure (because it’s obviously gone FUBAR) and just look at that huge stream.

Your camera saves pictures in JPEG? Well, in that case, I search for everything which looks like a JPEG header in this big stream. Since I still assume that no or almost no fragmentation occured within your filesystem, I just lookup the size of the following image in the JPEG header (there are fields which give the resolution and similar things) and rip it out.

That’s it, basically. But as you see, it isn’t something which you do on your normal home use windows installation in 10 minutes. You really don’t have to be a very good programmer at all, but it helps a lot to be a real programmer, at least a little bit. You just have to understand filesystems and file formats in general in a bit-by-bit manner.

Come on.. won t tell anybody about you being a wizard..
seriously if you thing you can save the mmc i can have it shipped to germany…

Well, I would have had no problem with that But fortunately, you saved your pictures yourself.

Hi frodo,

thanks for that great answer. So, i m willing to buy photo rescue. My mom wants her pictures really bad :wink:

But how can i be sure that photorescue found the “real” pictures and not the small thumb size ones (the ones of the index) When i look up to the deatails of each pictures it seems that they are “big” enough to be the real one…

Can i be sure?
tks

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But how can i be sure that photorescue found the “real” pictures and not the small thumb size ones (the ones of the index) When i look up to the deatails of each pictures it seems that they are “big” enough to be the real one…

Can i be sure?

do the details also give you a resolution? if the resolution is at least something along 1280x960, then don’t worry, it’s pretty sure that you have the right ones - yes. file size is another indicator.

you can’t be really really sure, but it’s a pretty safe bet.

Yo need some more help

on average i get smth like a file size of 1081344 but it doesn t say more. No resolution. What do you think ?
does it sound right ?

[quote author=“Thom”]Yo need some more help

on average i get smth like a file size of 1081344 but it doesn t say more. No resolution. What do you think ?
does it sound right ?

that sounds very right. go for it!

Thanks very much for you help guys !!!!!!!

I bought the photorescue and got all my pictures back…. don t know how but i don t care… why mom is :D :D :D now

thanks, and i have heard all of their programs are very good so if you ever have probs with rescuing date… you know da place :wink:

BTW: i noticed on the website that dataresue is a belgian company, one more good thing about belgium

PS: when did i become a “Ultimate Fn Combo Master” ? With the 150th post ??

Great! Glad you could recover all photos

A colleague of mine is also from Belgium. He’s a very good programmer and a really nice person - so I can agree, there are a lot of good things from Belgium