Help. lost photos whilst trying to make backup

Dollardog

I will do, its 56% through disc now.

Worth a try, hope it has found some of them.

Dollardog

Not found any yet - but loads to go through, its finished scanning now.

Won't let me highlight any now its stopped scanning though, I just pressed 'Save Picture, and now can't do anything, it just beeps at me.

Dollardog

Ignore what I just said, it did let me save something, not that it was anything I wanted though!!!

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It's probably due to holding down the cursor down key, filling up the buffer before it had chance to display the jpg

The suspense!

Dollardog

Still not found any yet, think I'll still be here tomorrow night going through this list!!

Dollardog

One thing is for sure, that memory stick is going in the bin tonight!!

Dollardog

Closed - Thank you so much, I've just found a picture of my friend who died. One taken when we were on holiday.

I was just about to give up. Will plough through all of them now.

Thaks a lot.

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Glad you are getting somewhere - this is who deserves the thanks really http://dmitrybrant.com/about

I suggest you make at least 2 copies, on separate media, and check they are readable on another device or pc (DVD player etc). Flash drives, (even unencrypted ones) are easily corrupted if you pull them out without safely removing hardware, so copies on DVD's (which aren't prone to viruses) plus external hard disks/web backup are a better backup solution, and always keep the original on the c drive too, don't move, copy.

Syncing is also a little dangerous.

Also when you have time, do a scan with malwarebytes, some viruses can cause these symptoms, AVG doesn't catch everything.