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Hi all: from Southern Idaho and primarily do astro-imaging for the past year. At a recent star party with our astro club I had a crazy experience in that the last half of my images (took about 80 total) cannot be opened. The error messsage says "a jpeg marker segment length is too short.." I consulted an Adobe forum and the two replies I got said my images are gone and unrecoverable. I just wanted to check to either confirm that or find out if in fact some of them can be recovered. Any help is appreciated.Thanks, Gary

BTW: I use a Canon 500 T1i and a usually reliable SD memory card for the images.

malco555 Loc: Kenilworth UK

Are you using PC or Mac? Have you tried opening one of the files in a simpler piece of software? Can you email one of the files to me and I'll check it out?

malco555@hotmail.com

saichiez Loc: Beautiful Central Oregon

A techy secret... one I use all the time. 25 years in computer consulting. The last fifteen, my best tools have been Yahoo and Google.

Whenever I am confronted with a technical message from a problem, I go to Yahoo (first choice) or Google (second choice). I type the message in the search window.

I just did this with your message on Yahoo. Got a ton of exact responses of the same question. Over half on the first page addressed that message with a solution.

That has paid off for me in my business, over, and over, and over. Takes me from a few minutes to and hour to solve most problems with the solutions outlined. I never consider it's a resolved solution until I see the message back.. HEY THAT WORKED. In this case at least three hits gave the same "recovery software" solution.

Good luck. I could give you the answer, but this is something you should learn how to do and practice when you have problems. Search the message and wade through the postings. No one is unique with these problems. If you had it, a thousand had it and many resolved those problems and posted the solution on the internet.

Unfortunately, when you just pop into one of these forums, hardly anybody can give you specific answers because they've never seen the message you saw.

Ask the question in a search engine... not help with the message... the actual question.

AstroLabs

Thanks for the reply....that's the first thing I also do, to. Have been using this technique for years as you have. But didn't use Yahoo. If I can't find any success there, I would hope you might share the successful results you achieved.

jmdusty Loc: greater DaytonOh. area

I ALWAYS use Yahoo first. Google puts too many *.sol's on ones computer when you use it.

jmdusty Loc: greater DaytonOh. area

BTW... post it on Yahoo Answer under photography... who knows, I may even answer it.