Partial image data loss issue. Suggestions?

[dbcann1962]

Originally Posted by picman

I haven't used it, but worth a shot:
CRW Repair: Easily fix damaged or corrupt CRW files with CRW Repair.

I found another called File Juicer that has pulled various sized jpg's out of the corrupt raw files. Seems to work pretty well.

I did DL this one however and will have to put it on my PC notebook to run it and see if it works better than Juicer.

Thanks for the info!

Don

[dbcann1962]

Originally Posted by PeteQ

Yep, I am still leaning at a LR problem.
Do you copy from your card to your hard drive via Lightroom import or do you copy via the Finder and then import into LR from your hard drive? I always copy via the Finder. I guess I just look at it like one less link to screw things up...

I *USED* to import via Lightroom to my HD. Thought I was saving steps that way ... you know, create the dir - add the metadata - etc.

Now however, I am using Finder to just drag the folder and all from the CF card into my pictures folder. Then I'll sort and organize from there.

I went to Adobe's support forums and though a similar problem is listed, most have come back with hardware issues being the culprit. I just don't see it though ... not here.

[SeanH]

Joined the forum, because I am having the same issue even after having canon fix my camera (which probably didnt need fixing)...pictures open fine in ZoomBrower but some are messed up in LR3 and Bridge...Pete- you are definitly right it is not a camera issue.

[SeanH]

I did some searching and stumbled accross this post on the Microsoft Answers Forum:

Copying images from Compact Flash Card Reader on Windows 7 x64 corrupts some image files.

This morning I got up and paid the $9.99 for the Fast Picture Viewer Codec. So I installed it like they said, I rebooted...etc. Wow, now I can see my .cr2 files in the explorer window. But the question is did it fix the problem I have been battling for the last 5 months?

Yesterday I imported 313 photo's from a shoot, and was getting the smeared, corrupt, partial processed in both LR3 and different or same ones in Bridge CS5.

After installing the above program, I made a new test folder, imported the same way I always do with LR3. I have checked LR3 and Bridge CS5 and I cannot find one corrupt looking file. I am not getting to excited yet, but this seems to have fixed the problem. I am so far very very happy to say the least. My next big shoot is on Sept. 25 (wedding) I will let everyone know what happens on import of those files. Oh, I also opened up my recycle bin and recovered a couple of the corrupt looking files from yesterday and now they look fine. So this may be the fix. Maybe I am over excited but rendering seems to be quicker on my large 5D MkII raw files.
Have a great day.
Sean