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- meok
So I was sorting a bunch of pictures from a shoot, picked all the winners and drag them into the "chosen" folder. At that moment an error message comes up and says it its unable to move the files due to some error. Hhmm, ok. So I go back to the original forder, interesting, the files are not there. hmmm.. ok, maybe there in that chosen folder after all... nope.
fuck.
Did a search of the whole system, theyre nowhere to be seen.Anybody knows what to do in this situation? Theres no way we can afford to reshoot.
:(
- lvl_130
that has been happening to me a lot! and it fucking sucks!
were they on a server, or more importantly, were they on a server that gets backed up on a timed basis?
i'm assuming that both the answers are no, but who knows. that sucks :\
i'm assuming they are not still on the camera or anything?
- Jaline0
This happened to me once and I never recovered the files. I searched all over too.
Hopefully my problem isn't the same as yours and you can find the pictures.
:(
- Rand0
note to self: always copy, rather than move files
- meok0
Unfortunatly, no to all of those. I shoot directly to an external HD. Havent backed it up yet.. oh boy.
- emptyempty0
note to self: always copy, rather than move files
Rand
(Feb 9 07, 09:25)Not sure if this is true... a friend of mine said if you keeping copy the files (e.g images/photos) the quality of the files will get worse... is this true?
I think he is talking baws!
- emptyempty0
and... sorry to hear about that meok, hope you will find the pictures dude.
- material-10
sorry but burning a backup dvd or some other media is the first thing you should do on a photo shoot. from the camera card to hard drive to backup.
Most workflow software will do this automatically if set to.
- Point50
fuck... that dilemma makes me sick to my stomach.
- harlequino0
Not sure if this is true... a friend of mine said if you keeping copy the files (e.g images/photos) the quality of the files will get worse... is this true?
I think he is talking baws!
emptyempty
(Feb 9 07, 09:29)That's photocopying.
You know...that thing on paper.
- bolus0
Not sure if this is true... a friend of mine said if you keeping copy the files (e.g images/photos) the quality of the files will get worse... is this true?
I think he is talking baws!
emptyempty
(Feb 9 07, 09:29)he is
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and meok, good luck, i hop you can recover them, although i wouldn't know why
(and thank god i still shoot film)
- gramme0
ouch. sorry bud. Can you afford to re-shoot gratis?
- Jaline0
:.(
- Rand0
precious moments that can never be regained
- harlequino0
Yeah this is awful, wish i had a solution. Can you reshoot for free on your own time, or are there outside costs?
*starts backing shit up out of paranoia.
- Jaline0
empty, your friend is wrong.
- hiatus0
I've had it happen to while working on files in a program....I get a cant save message and can't save so I forcve qwuit and go back to at least start out with the original file that I was working on to simply re-do the changes, but can even find the files roig. file.
very scary!!!:-[ :-/ very upsetting.!!!
please if any one has advice besides the make a dup of the orig. and also make a copy not just drag to a new file.
very helpful!
- pye0
I saw this happen to a few people back in my tech support days. If you're willing to drop some cash, data recovery places like http://www.ontrack.com/ are often able to recover deleted files. For now, don't write anything new to the disk (you don't want to overwrite the blocks on the HDD where the pics were previously located)
- emptyempty0
That's photocopying.
You know...that thing on paper.
harlequino
(Feb 9 07, 09:30)Haha! I know but does jpegs etc are the same? even though it's not noticeable?
- emptyempty0
thanks jaline :-)
- tomkat0
sorry to hear : /
that's why I alwaysalways copy, check and delete source afterwards
esp on Win machines