Omg!!!! Help!! All of my work is corrupted

[TheRandomPhotographer]

I dont know what to do or where to go on this one.

I bought a toshiba 2TB external and proceeded to copy all of my work over to the 2TB.......


.....30 mins later all of the images are either corrupted or damaged.



im at a loss.

[TheRandomPhotographer]

Some 2700 images are missing data on them. to make matters worse Lightroom takes a dump when it reads the catalog file associated with the images

[SCone]

Forget Lightroom.... can your computer read the files on the drive? If the computer can "see" the images, then it's not really corrupted, Lightroom cannot "find" the images.

[SCone]

There is an "update folder location" under the edit in Lightroom... you may just need to change the file location within Lightroom to get them all back with the data

Sorry... it's under a right-click of the folder you are trying to locate

There is also a "find missing photos" option under the library

[TheRandomPhotographer]

through any image editor i have and explorer they appear to be corrupted ill upload one as an extreme example....but it will illustrate the scope of the problem

[TheRandomPhotographer]

nevermind. windows, PS, LR, Paint.net, or Paint wont let me open any of the corrupted images without crashing

[jeffkohn]

Did you copy or move the files? If you copied them, even if the copies on the new drive are corrupt the original images should be OK, right? I don't see how copying a file could corroupt the original, unless you had some sort of hardware failure on the original drive.

[TheRandomPhotographer]

Originally Posted by jeffkohn

Did you copy or move the files? If you copied them, even if the copies on the new drive are corrupt the original images should be OK, right? I don't see how copying a file could corroupt the original, unless you had some sort of hardware failure on the original drive.

thats the thing both drives have the same bad files....the hard drives are still r/w fine and the images are there.

upon closer inspection some of the files actually made it but the vast majority of my work failed the process

[SCone]

Go thru the steps taken to copy the files for us.... maybe there's something that we can tell what happened......

[TheRandomPhotographer]

Originally Posted by SCone

Go thru the steps taken to copy the files for us.... maybe there's something that we can tell what happened......

|||plugged in the the new toshiba 2TB
|||formatted it to NTSC
|||right clicked on the parent directory for all of my work
|||selected copy
|||right clicked on the Toshiba
|||selected paste
|||played Battlefield Bad Company 2 for 45 mins
|||ate a sandwich
|||Looked at the newly created back folders
|||freaked out when i saw 90% of the previews were images with purple, blue, red, orange, and gray lines or half the image gone

[SCone]

you mean NTFS?

[TheRandomPhotographer]

Originally Posted by SCone

you mean NTFS?

yea that....just got done coding a dvd on Nero

[SCone]

sounds like the copy timed out on the transfer... any errors during the process? depending on the delay it could cause the entire job to fail

[TheRandomPhotographer]

Originally Posted by SCone

sounds like the copy timed out on the transfer... any errors during the process? depending on the delay it could cause the entire job to fail

well it transfered without a prompt, warning, or message.

[Sonny]

Ryan,

Before you do anything else contact fellow member Rson. He has helped many TPF members recover files from problematic drives. I know we have many members on this forum that are knowledgeable but Rson is a genius.