Please Help All Holiday Photos Maybe Lost

[lettuce]

Just got back from Ibiza to discover almost all my holiday snaps maybe corrupted, i get a following message in photoshop saying

Could not compete your request as an unknow or invalid JPEG marker type is Found or document maybe damaged (the file maybe truncated or incomplete)

Now all the pictures display fine on the my Cannon IXUS 40 display when your viewing the photos, but if i try and load the images up within photoshop and contiune past the error message a picture gets displayed, but the problem with the picture is that the center of the picture is fine but the tops, bottoms and sides of the photos are out of line and dont match up. Im guessing i could go through every single picture and cut and paste the part of the images that dont line up and then paste them into a new image, but that would take forever. Is there a decent JPEG recovery/fixing program about that could fix my images??

[finlab]

have you tried loading them onto your pc and viewing with something other than photoshop?

[lettuce]

yeah doesnt give an error message but they still dont display properly

[Len]

Download Convar PC Inspector Smart Recovery and run it over your memory cards. I would recommend it as it's been a useful tool for image recovery.

[mnementh]

Try opening them using http://www.irfanview.com/

[wseed]

The Thumbnails are held separately in a jpg file which is why your camera will display them fine as rather than reading the whole file to show you the image it just reads the thumbnail.

Your best bet as said is to try some image recovery software on the card. If given an option recover the files to your hard disk and not the memory card.

[lettuce]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, ive tried the Convar software and it seems to be working, which is excellent. Does this program actually fix any errors on the card or just get them of the card and fix them on my HD?, as i shall throw the card away if everytime i take pictures the card gets corrupted, and it was a brand new 4 GB card too!

[Wishy]

Recover the files, Format it and fill the card with shots of your bedroom wall. See what comes out. If it happens again and its brand new, Warentee return it!

Or buy a proper film camera and never get these problems again

[Len]

Convar will not fix any errors on the cards, it just recovers the images and puts them on your HDD.I agree with Wishy, once the files are recovered, reformat the cards and shoot blank walls, lens cap on,etc to fill the card up and then see what happens when you try to upload them to your PC, and if you still get errors return the card.

[silverpenguin7]

Or buy a proper film camera and never get these problems again
My friend lost ALL her honeymoon photos recently because the x-ray machines zapped them all! They did a lot of flying so went through a lot of machines, pretty much every photo was gone.

Although I'm not actually sure how x-ray machines damaged negatives?!

[Wishy]

Xray is bit of a special case. It needs some care.

The general advise is it's good for half a dozen through the walk through scanners. Leave any film, exposed or otherwise, in the hold and they'll go through a much higher power scanner and they'll be zapped into oblivion.

For garenteed results, buy local and process local, I guess. Once they're developed the negs should be pretty xray resistant.

[AndyWilson]

I bought my first digital camera years ago after getting a 24exp film back from Boots with only 24 prints - when I knew I'd taken 27 (which was pretty much the norm on a 24exp film). When I questioned it they just said someone must have not noticed the extra frames - and it was too late for them to do anything about it as the rest of the negs would have been binned :(

..those last 3 were classic shots worthy of Ansel Adams too - honest!

[Wishy]

Any decent lab should give you your negatives back. And i'd expect all 27 to be printed, assuming you managed to get anything on them. (Depends how you load it, etc)