Afternoon All,
A colleague has given me a 2GB memory card from a holiday in Thailand
and the photo's we can see (i.e. the ones that display an image in
Windows thumbnail view) look like they've been chopped in half then
reassembled the wrong way round (i.e. left piece on the right, right
piece on the left).
For example, an original that looks like:
AAAA
AABB
AABB
Becomes
AAAA
BBAA
BBAA
Hopefully you get the idea!
The majority of the pictures just show up as a generic icon and I
can't open them at all.
>From ImageMagick, I get the error "premature end of data segment" when
trying to open the former.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a free repair utility I could use to
fix them.
I've found a commercial one called pixrecovery but the demo version
leaves a big black square in the middle of the photo, otherwise it
seems to do exactly what I want. In all likely hood, if there's not a
free alternative we'll probably buy this one.
Knickerless Parsons wrote:
> Afternoon All,
> A colleague has given me a 2GB memory card from a holiday in Thailand
> and the photo's we can see (i.e. the ones that display an image in
> Windows thumbnail view) look like they've been chopped in half then
> reassembled the wrong way round (i.e. left piece on the right, right
> piece on the left).
>
> For example, an original that looks like:
>
> AAAA
> AABB
> AABB
>
> Becomes
>
> AAAA
> BBAA
> BBAA
>
> Hopefully you get the idea!
>
> The majority of the pictures just show up as a generic icon and I
> can't open them at all.
>
>>From ImageMagick, I get the error "premature end of data segment" when
> trying to open the former.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of a free repair utility I could use to
> fix them.
>
> I've found a commercial one called pixrecovery but the demo version
> leaves a big black square in the middle of the photo, otherwise it
> seems to do exactly what I want. In all likely hood, if there's not a
> free alternative we'll probably buy this one.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave.
> http://vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html has recovery manager
which is both free and quite good. However, I'm not sure if it will do
any good on this type of problem.
Dave Cohen
On 26 Sep, 16:59, Dave Cohen <u...@example.net> wrote:
> Knickerless Parsons wrote:
> > Afternoon All,
> > A colleague has given me a 2GB memory card from a holiday in Thailand
> > and the photo's we can see (i.e. the ones that display an image in
> > Windows thumbnail view) look like they've been chopped in half then
> > reassembled the wrong way round (i.e. left piece on the right, right
> > piece on the left).
>
> > For example, an original that looks like:
>
> > AAAA
> > AABB
> > AABB
>
> > Becomes
>
> > AAAA
> > BBAA
> > BBAA
>
> > Hopefully you get the idea!
>
> > The majority of the pictures just show up as a generic icon and I
> > can't open them at all.
>
> >>From ImageMagick, I get the error "premature end of data segment" when
> > trying to open the former.
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows of a freerepairutility I could use to
> > fix them.
>
> > I've found a commercial one called pixrecovery but the demo version
> > leaves a big black square in the middle of the photo, otherwise it
> > seems to do exactly what I want. In all likely hood, if there's not a
> > free alternative we'll probably buy this one.
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dave.
>
> http://vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.htmlhas recovery manager
> which is both free and quite good. However, I'm not sure if it will do
> any good on this type of problem.
> Dave Cohen
Thanks Dave,
I'll give it a go and let everyone know, eventually!
>Afternoon All,
>A colleague has given me a 2GB memory card from a holiday in Thailand
>and the photo's we can see (i.e. the ones that display an image in
>Windows thumbnail view) look like they've been chopped in half then
>reassembled the wrong way round (i.e. left piece on the right, right
>piece on the left).
>
>For example, an original that looks like:
>
>AAAA
>AABB
>AABB
>
>Becomes
>
>AAAA
>BBAA
>BBAA
>
>Hopefully you get the idea!
>
>The majority of the pictures just show up as a generic icon and I
>can't open them at all.
>
>>From ImageMagick, I get the error "premature end of data segment" when
>trying to open the former.
>
>I'm wondering if anyone knows of a free repair utility I could use to
>fix them.
Lexar has one called Image Rescue that comes free with their CF cards.
Seems to work okay, although I discovered a quirk in it today.
It saves files with names like RAW_093.TIF, but you can't open them as
regular TIFFs, and Canon Digital Photo Professional won't recognize
them, either. Canon suggested I change the file names to xyz.CR2, and
try opening them with DPP. I did, and it worked fine.
On Oct 10, 6:44 pm, j...@unspameljefe.net wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:12:26 -0700, Knickerless Parsons
>
>
>
>
>
> <knickerlesspars...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >Afternoon All,
> >A colleague has given me a 2GB memory card from a holiday in Thailand
> >and the photo's we can see (i.e. the ones that display an image in
> >Windows thumbnail view) look like they've been chopped in half then
> >reassembled the wrong way round (i.e. left piece on the right, right
> >piece on the left).
>
> >For example, an original that looks like:
>
> >AAAA
> >AABB
> >AABB
>
> >Becomes
>
> >AAAA
> >BBAA
> >BBAA
>
> >Hopefully you get the idea!
>
> >The majority of the pictures just show up as a generic icon and I
> >can't open them at all.
>
> >>From ImageMagick, I get the error "premature end of data segment" when
> >trying to open the former.
>
> >I'm wondering if anyone knows of a free repair utility I could use to
> >fix them.
>
> Lexar has one called Image Rescue that comes free with their CF cards.
> Seems to work okay, although I discovered a quirk in it today.
>
> It saves files with names like RAW_093.TIF, but you can't open them as
> regular TIFFs, and Canon Digital Photo Professional won't recognize
> them, either. Canon suggested I change the file names to xyz.CR2, and
> try opening them with DPP. I did, and it worked fine.
>
> JJ- Hide quoted text -
>
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I am working on a solution to this problem for jpegs.
Please e-mail me if anyone wants try out a free copy within the next
few days
Corrupt JPEGs 
Linear Mode
