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- DeviceUnseen0
can you take your machine to an apple store or pay the $50 to et the phone support? There might be an utility that they can run to restore the files.
- blastofv0
JPG is a compression format, so if you go from raw or tiff to JPG, you're corroding the original quality of the digital image. if you're concerned with really really fine image quality, don't use the JPG format at all.
and I second the data recovery option. the files are always there (unless you overwrite the HD space as mentioned). but what costs more? data recovery or reshooting?
good luck!
- lvl_130
same thing exactly hiatus. it sucks.
and yeah what pye said. you don't want to overwrite any of the file nametags cause the n it will be permanently gone. that has also happened to me several times where there are so many files being opened, saved and resaved on the netowrk that it starts reusing the id tags and hence starts overwriting other peoples files. also not fun!
- acescence0
it's entirely possible, and quite likely, that the files are still there, just the reference to them is gone from the catalog. try a disk recovery utility. you didn't mention the platform, but disk warrior for mac has never failed me.
- rson0
Dont shut down your machine. Your files are still there you just need recovery software
- meok0
Thanks for the sympathy guys. Im on osx btw, I'll try out that disk recovery software someone mentioned. Reshooting is not really an option due to time and budget. My last resort would be to use the pictures that didnt make the cut, as those are still there. But that would suck, big time.
- xenicon0
http://software.techrepublic.com…
pile of win here
- canuck0
I know you can recover deleted files from a camera memory card, as long as you don't start shooting on it again. When you erase the memory card, the data is still there technically, it just blanks out part of the data or something. I remember seeing something on techTv about recovey. There is a software program you can download for recovering.
Should be same on your external hard-drive I would imagine?
- xenicon0
scratch that, use disk warrior
- rson0
Also the longer you wait the chances of recovering slim down
- mirrorball0
You on a Mac or PC son?
- dirtydesign0
The photographer doesnt have original files?
- meok0
Dirty, the photographer is the idiot who didnt back up before sorting. (me)
- st33d0
On winXP you can solve this with restoration.exe
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/R…
I'm having trouble trying to find an analogue for OSX. Does anyone else have any leads?
It would be the first safe bet and personally I could use it for future reference.
- xenicon0
disk warrior for mac has never failed me.
acescence
(Feb 9 07, 09:42)
- ornj0
osx, never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever work off the server. Make sure you are always working with a local copy.