Corrupted Digi Photos Help Please

izzitme

I have downloaded our holiday photos from the card to the PC. About half of them display correctly, but the remainder fail to open.

I get the following message:

"Could not open ***.JPG because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found."

I have tried using Recuva from https://www.recuva.com but it doesn't help. Any suggestions please. I can still view the photos on the camera.

Many thanks in advance.

f1charlie

You could try this file recovery program:

http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

to see if it has any better results.

Donnie

Have you tried downloading them again? Which method are you using?

sco0ter

You will need to do the recovery from the camera memory card as this contains all the data. When you trnsfer it the data is already corrupt so recovery is not possible..

izzitme

Donnie wrote: »

Have you tried downloading them again? Which method are you using?

I am transferring using a card reader. I can print any photo using a PictBridge connection direct to a printer, but the other half wants to look at them on the monitor before she decides which she wants printing!

Thanks

espresso

Try not using a card reader, use the USB cable with the card in the camera.

izzitme

espresso wrote: »

Try not using a card reader, use the USB cable with the card in the camera.

Thanks for your advice f1charlie & espresso. All photos are now safely recovered with the help of http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

My OH is very happy.

Thanks again to everybody who replied.