Lightroom - message - does anyone know what this means? "An unexpected end of file has occurred" - this is what I get on certain images in the batch I'm working on. Anyone know what...

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

"An unexpected end of file has occurred" - this is what I get on certain images in the batch I'm working on. Anyone know what that means? I've never seen it before.

Thanks!
Donna

blackest Loc: Ireland

donnahde wrote:

"An unexpected end of file has occurred" - this is what I get on certain images in the batch I'm working on. Anyone know what that means? I've never seen it before.

Thanks!
Donna

It seems like the file is corrupted maybe it only got half written. see if you can copy from the card again. if you have a look at the file you have on disk it may seem unusually small.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

I got the same message yesterday when my wife's two year old granddaughter was banging her fist on the keyboard. It went away when I restarted Lightroom. No apparent damage.

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

Kmgw9v wrote:

I got the same message yesterday when my wife's two year old granddaughter was banging her fist on the keyboard. It went away when I restarted Lightroom. No apparent damage.

Hmmmm....interesting. Too late since I already deleted it but thanks. If I ever see it again I'll try that. I was actually editing files of a wedding and I had plenty. Those couple will not be missed - unless I tell them I had a problem! Ha! They have 1400 to oooh and aaahhh over. I was just wondering if anyone here had had that issue come up.

Thanks!!
Donna

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

donnahde wrote:

"An unexpected end of file has occurred" - this is what I get on certain images in the batch I'm working on. Anyone know what that means? I've never seen it before.

Thanks!
Donna

You're not alone. Unfortunately, this link offers your question with lots of guesses at the answer.

Whoops! Forgot the link.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/352810

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

Just LR giving you an occasional reminder that the software runs things and not you.

pecohen Loc: Central Maine

donnahde wrote:

Hmmmm....interesting. Too late since I already deleted it but thanks. If I ever see it again I'll try that. I was actually editing files of a wedding and I had plenty. Those couple will not be missed - unless I tell them I had a problem! Ha! They have 1400 to oooh and aaahhh over. I was just wondering if anyone here had had that issue come up.

Thanks!!
Donna

Check your Recycle Bin. You may be able to recover a deleted file.

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

jerryc41 wrote:

You're not alone. Unfortunately, this link offers your question with lots of guesses at the answer.

Whoops! Forgot the link.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/352810

Thanks, Jerry. This is the first time it's happened for me and I handle at least 150,000 files a year. But this time something went wrong with my camera's Sandisk card and I got a bunch of errors when I uploaded to my computer and I had to use the Sandisk recovery system which worked like a charm. I didn't even have to pay for it until I could see the files I needed. Then it was only $39.99 - a REAL deal when you lose important images. It was a couple of THOSE recovered images that the end of file message occurred and there were also a few corrupt ones. It did recover hundreds of great ones though. I should probably start a new thread with this information so it can be searched and found when someone needs it.

blackest Loc: Ireland

donnahde wrote:

Thanks, Jerry. This is the first time it's happen... (show quote)

That explains a lot, when the recovery software searches a card it looks for everything that could be a file it might be that the short jpegs were written in a previous format or deleted and partly overwritten. I lost a lot of mp3 files on a large hdd i did a search on the free sectors and it found thousands of files and part files. Part of my reclaiming these files was to dump everything below about a megabyte as i figured below that size it wouldn't be a complete song. Something that might help when it comes to sorting out your recovered photo's. You should have an idea of the usual file size from your camera and anything noticeably smaller is likely to be a fragment.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

donnahde wrote:

"An unexpected end of file has occurred" - this is what I get on certain images in the batch I'm working on. Anyone know what that means? I've never seen it before.

Thanks!
Donna

I have gotten that message a couple of times as Lightroom was opening so I shut it down and reopened and everything was fine. Not sure what it means but hadn't seen it before upgrading to Windows 10. Now, I'm not saying upgrading had anything to do with it but I didn't notice it before the upgrade. However, I also have 15,000 to 20,000 pictures in my index so it may have something to do with that. I keep good backups so if something catastrophic happens, I can always recover (I hope).

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

blackest wrote:

That explains a lot, when the recovery software se... (show quote)

I did see a LOT of images I didn't need. It recovered almost 7000 images which surprised me since I reformat every time. It was easy to find the ones they needed since they were on top. I was shooting raw and small jpeg though so there were a mess to sort thru. I finally realized I could just search for NEF and I had exactly what I needed and could get the rest of the other 6500 files OFF my drive. (-: Then it was a matter of not duplicating ones that HAD come thru ok since the recovery program names the files differently than the camera does as in Filexxx rather than DSCxxx. LR handled that just fine, too, because I always sort by capture time. That put the two files names right next to each other so that I could delete the duplicate.

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

dcampbell52 wrote:

I have gotten that message a couple of times as Lightroom was opening so I shut it down and reopened and everything was fine. Not sure what it means but hadn't seen it before upgrading to Windows 10. Now, I'm not saying upgrading had anything to do with it but I didn't notice it before the upgrade. However, I also have 15,000 to 20,000 pictures in my index so it may have something to do with that. I keep good backups so if something catastrophic happens, I can always recover (I hope).

Hmmmm.....I have Win 10, too. I do need to take my Dell All in One in for service since my card reader is no longer recognizing cards and a couple of my USB ports are not working. All that has been since Win 10 so I'm going to take it to the Microsoft store at our mall as soon as I'm finished with this wedding. My partner had to have his Dell serviced when he updated his Win 10. His hard drive actually died. They not only recovered all his data but the $150 they charged includes service on all 4 of the computers in our house for anything that goes wrong. Now he did have to purchase a new drive but he was able to shop for the best deal and deliver it to them. I thought that was pretty cool. He found one at Best Buy. By the way, I have WAY more than 15-20K images in my index. I don't think you should have to worry about that.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

donnahde wrote:

"An unexpected end of file has occurred" - this is what I get on certain images in the batch I'm working on. Anyone know what that means? I've never seen it before.

Thanks!
Donna

Donna, in LR, go to the File menu and choose 'Optimize Catalog'. It may take a while to perform this, but it's a utility that goes through the structure of your catalog file correcting any issues and rebuilds all the indexes for the database file.

Your particular error indicates a record did not get completely written to the database, for whatever reason.

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

brucewells wrote:

Donna, in LR, go to the File menu and choose 'Optimize Catalog'. It may take a while to perform this, but it's a utility that goes through the structure of your catalog file correcting any issues and rebuilds all the indexes for the database file.

Your particular error indicates a record did not get completely written to the database, for whatever reason.

Ok, Bruce, I'll do that. This particular issue is finished but if this will help for the future there's no reason not to do it. The next image it happens to might be irreplaceable. Thanks!

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

donnahde wrote:

Hmmmm.....I have Win 10, too. I do need to take m... (show quote)

As for drivers not working, I downloaded one of the "free" driver check and updater programs shortly after upgrading to Windows 10. The updater worked fine up to a point then Microsoft and the hardware companies got their acts together and got the newer drivers out. I also seemed to be getting some virus hits. I uninstalled the virus updater, went back to all of the hardware manufacturers for my computer and got the UPDATED FOR WINDOWS 10 versions of the drivers and haven't noticed any hardware giving me trouble. I uninstalled it prior to doing the hardware driver updates and everything "seems" to be working normally. Lightroom giving the stopped working message seemed to quit this last week so I don't know where it was coming from. I also went through and did something that we're not "supposed" to have to do. I optimized the data on the c: drive. It took hours to do but it seemed to help.(I don't know if it really did anything to help or I just feel like it did because I expended the energy to do it.