Help recovering .nef files.
Dec 23, 2019 16:48:17 #
I have a solid backup procedure, or so I thought, and after a series of multiple very unfortunate events, needless to say HELP! I purchased a data recovery program and successfully reinstated over 1500 deleted .nef files. A few hundred of them had the file but no exif data, which I can live with. Unfortunately, about 42 .nef files are unable to be opened. I then got a program, Stellar jpeg repair, which is supposed to go through the data and strip out the jpeg info which is in the raw file. It comes back but has the repaired jpeg at 0 bytes and unopenable. I have emailed them, but what I would like to know from the hoggers is, what recovery programs have people tried and succeeded with. Are there any recovery companies out there worth recommending in case this doesn't work?
Dec 23, 2019 18:14:54 #
RWR
Loc: La Mesa, CA
Dug E Pi wrote:
Unfortunately, about 42 .nef files are unable to be opened.
Have you tried to open them with the software that came with your camera? Just a thought.
Dec 24, 2019 02:16:26 #
Dug E Pi wrote:
I have a solid backup procedure, or so I thought, ... (show quote)
I am sorry I have no experience with trying to recover data in the circumstances you describe.
However, I think if the .nef file is corrupted then there is a good chance the embedded jpeg is also corrupted.
Dec 24, 2019 05:01:00 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
The only time I had to recover 'Deleted' files, I used 'Recuva' Programme , and got 90% of them back; My card was formatted and fortunately no new images recorded before the error was realised. That was about ten years ago.
Dec 27, 2019 17:46:38 #
Dec 29, 2019 14:13:56 #
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. (I have tries Easeus btw and it got most but not all) A Christmas miracle happened though and I am saved. I shoot with my daughter and our backup system is we both shoot dual slots and at the end of a shoot we swap cards so I have hers, and she has mine. This shoot she left early due to illness and didn't think we had swapped. I thought we had but she could not find any more cards and I thought I was doomed. She was reorganizing her camera bag and found a card in a pocket she never puts cards in and it was the missing one.
Dec 29, 2019 15:13:04 #
Dug E Pi wrote:
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. (I have tries... (show quote)
That is a good back up system.
I am glad you go the images back.
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