Questions tagged [data-corruption]
Error in computer data (of a picture) during reading, writing, transferring, processing etc.
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reparing corrupt pictures [duplicate]
I have lots of corrupted image files. the are grey or have several issues. is there an tool out there to fix issues like that?
Maybe opensource ?
Thanks in advance.
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Recovery of corrupted JPEG file taken using Canon Eos Rebel
I have a photo that was taken using a Canon Eos Rebel.
I cannot get it to show, and the file appears to be corrupted.
I've tried many of the free apps (Stellar, Wondershare Recoverit, and one paid one ...
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Something is corrupting my jpegs. How can I trace what did this?
I keep finding jpeg images on my laptop, which are corrupt. Some have a gray band at the bottom, some are reported bad by Bad Peggy (but look normal when viewed in e.g. XNView) and some are just ...
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Photo and Video recovery?
i have a bunch of sentimental photos and videos (32ish GB) that were corrupted and was wondering if anyone had any idea how to recover data. what software should I use? Do I do it manually? just ...
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Is there a way to repair corrupt raw files? (RW2 and NEF) The data seems to be there, but it is in pink and at different places
I do not have much hope, to be honest, but for the case that this is a known issue and there is just one bit anyway I can switch back:
Several files on my hard disk got corrupted. I do not understand ...
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The location of the Lightroom database for the Android version
I am using the offline version of Lightroom under Android, the problem is that I do not know the location of the database storage and this has i can,t me to be able to transfer the previous database ...
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Photos in my SD Card suddenly disappeared and now I cannot recover
Before you jump to a conclusion, I did not format the card nor did I delete the photos. I didnt shoot on demo mode either.
This is what happened,
I came home after a vacation with 600 pictures, they ...
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CR2 files corrupted after moving from CF card
In an unfortunate moment I decided to move some CR2 files from a CF card onto my PC (Windows 10) instead of copying the files. As expected the files were moved to the PC and removed from the CF card.
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Photo recovery and duplicate removal
I'm currently in the process of recovering all the digital photos that were ever taken in my family. I've extracted data in multiple ways from damaged hard disks, broken CDs, almost unreadable floppy ...
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odd raw file corruption
I am finding a small number of partially corrupted RAW files in my LR catalog.In short small "blocks" of each image that are randomly colored - often pink/red. Any ideas as to what might be ...
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Why do images get "corrupted"?
I have had my Nikon D40 for a while, and some of the pictures are coming out distorted.
Two examples are below:
So my questions are:
How do I fix them after the fact? - i.e. after they have been ...
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.CR2 pictures damaged and corrupted
Last night, I shot 400+ pictures with my Canon 650d. I was happy until I plugged my memory card into my card reader. The .CR2 files look okay, but when I import them to Lightroom, an error shows up: "...
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What's causing large artifacts in some of my digital pictures?
I took several hundred images recently, which downloaded OK apart from about a dozen that got corrupted. I was using simultaneous RAW/JPEG on a sunny day with my Canon 7D Mark II. Can anyone help ...
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Is there a way to recover corrupted JPEG files?
I'm wondering if there is a way to recover corrupted JPEG files.
They got corrupted because I deleted a folder for error and I promptly recovered it with a recovery software. Most of the photos are ...
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ExifTool does not extract corrupted EXIF metadata from jpeg file. How to repair it?
The image viewer nomacs offers a quick way to add image notes via Exif.Image.ImageDescription metadata.
After having edited the form for ...
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How can I repair a corrupt .nef file?
I took about 100 shots using a Nikon D7000 on a 4GB memory card this weekend, shooting in RAW. I checked the pictures after the first 5 and all looked fine, so I kept shooting. After taking about 95 ...
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Corrupted Photo format
My hard drive stopped working so then I used recovery software to retrieve files.
I tried to view these but the format had change to "Sony Digital Camera Image".
The files are no longer a ...
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.jpg photos from the external SD card of Galaxy Grand Prime + display "It appears we don't support this file format" after transferring them to my PC
My Galaxy Grand Prime + phone was running out of space so I transferred all my WhatsApp media to my SD card. After some time (a few hours I think), many of these photos and videos became unviewable. I ...
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Damaged CR3 files saved by Canon M50 and then saved again correctly
While importing photos to Lightroom I got a somewhat worrying message that some of my photos can’t be imported as the file is damaged. Upon closer inspection, I have noticed that indeed several CR3 ...
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Can I fix a corrupted jpeg file?
I have some jpg files on an old hard drive, and it appears they were corrupted somehow. When I try to open them it says it's an invalid file type in Windows. I first attempted a couple of repair ...
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Can I keep using a corrupted SD card?
So I just came back from a shoot, put my SD card in my card reader and copied the files from the card to my computer. At least I tried to, but after the first image Windows reported an error message ...
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Why are half the files of a JPEG shoot I transferred from my phone to a thumb drive not recognized as JPEGs?
I put a couple hundred pics on this thumb drive and I have no problems accessing any part of the drive. The only problem is all the programs I have for viewing jpegs say that about half of them can't ...
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Possible cause for corrupted images (colored stripe with dots in pictures)?
I've noticed the below artifact/data corruption (colored stripe with dots) in a small handful of my photos, and I'm trying to figure out the cause. Is it the camera (Nikon d90)? Could it be the SD ...
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Transferred files from Canon camera, now files are corrupted (?)
I recently transferred some photos from the sd card inside my canon camera (by cutting and pasting into a usb file) and for some reason, some files have been cut (like some blocks of the image are ...
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How to recover corrupted photo files? [closed]
All picture files are corrupted stored in Nash drive. Getting the below message when try to open in photo viewer. How to recover the photos? There are lots of photos old and recent.
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Camera sometimes stores unreadable .MOV instead of .JPG
A recent development with my Kodak Z981 camera - i.e., I took 19 pictures. The first 4 and the last 3 were normal, 2 to 3 MB JPEG photos. The 12 pictures in between came out as 8-12 kB .MOV files ...
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Why do photos get corrupted on PC hard disks?
I'm not a professional photographer but I do value my photos very much. Sometimes when I look through them months or years after I've taken them, some of them just show up corrupt for no evident ...
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How can I make sure my photos aren't damaged after copying them from a faulty SD card?
I’ve copied pictures from my faulty SD card. Most of the photos seem to be ok, but some have big gray parts where originally the photo was.
How can I make sure that all the photos that seem to be ok, ...
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Why do some of my RAW files get "broken", with narrow solid black horizontal lines?
I shot a lot of photos during my summer vacation. Traveling during daytime, with little time to edit or review photos I often copied and erased my memory cards at nights so I could be ready for next ...
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Can this image be fixed? and why has this happened? [duplicate]
When I took this photo it was fine. I looked at it a few times on the camera on my way back home and it was fine. But when I got home and looked at it on the camera again, it was fine for a second but ...
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Google Photos high quality backup -- how does Google achieve great compression and am I losing some data?
I'm sure that many of us have used Google photos high quality backup which allows us to store photos online without fees.
Recently, I thought of testing just how high quality the uploads really were ...
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What causes an SD card to go corrupt?
One of my cheap SD cards goes corrupt from time to time and the camera demands it needs to be reformatted.
It's frustrating, but I want to know what might be the reason that makes it go corrupt and ...
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Any recommendations for how to choose a data recovery company [closed]
I have an SD card that suddenly cannot be read. There are several sentimental photos on there. I tried the recovery tools from the manufacturer's website as well as several 3rd party tools. None of ...
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Nikkon DSLR messing up SD Cards
So here's my dilemma. I have a Nikon DSLR, unsure the model at the moment, that eats SD cards. Every time I use an SD card with this device it destroys the card, rendering all of the data on it ...
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Why is Lightroom showing a corrupted image?
In Lightroom 5.7.1 (OSX 10.10), Lightroom is showing a weird, corrupted version of many JPG (not raw) files in my library:
Opening or previewing the image directly (Quicklook or any other app) shows ...
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How do you deliberately corrupt an image? [closed]
Im currently working on a project where I want to deliberately corrupt images. Iv been trying to do research of to how to do this for a few weeks now and just keep finding my self going in circles. I ...
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Canon error message: "Card cannot be accessed. Reinsert/Change the card or format card with camera"
I have a new Canon Rebel T6 and just charged and loaded the battery and then loaded a Lexar 32 GB card. I am getting the following error message:
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NEF seemingly corrupt except in ViewNX-i - how to repair?
I have one NEF file that's showing perfectly fine in ViewNX-i but that displays blue or green color banding at the bottom of the image with every other tool I throw at it (MacOS X Sierra 10.12.4 ...
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What might cause horizontal artifacts in Lightroom after import?
I have some old photos on the SD card in my Sony A57. After importing into Lightroom, there are horizontal artifacts on most of the imported photos. This is a screen grab of Lightroom displaying one ...
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How to find corrupt CR2 files?
Today I found out "by accident" that some of my CR2 Canon raws are corrupt. The EXIF data and the file structure is fine, it's the raw image data itself that appears to be broken. The Adobe DNG ...
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Is corruption in digital images always easily recognized?
Is it easy to tell if digital images are corrupted? Do corrupted images always show obvious signs of corruption, such as missing parts of the image? Or could corruption be more subtle, perhaps just ...
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Why do I get white images with black vertical stripes?
Apparently my 3 year old Canon EOS 550D is fed up with my style of photography and decided to explore abstract arts instead. All it shows on the LCD and stores on the SD card is this:
When I attempt ...
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Does using multiple smaller memory cards decrease the probability of losing data? [duplicate]
I once heard it suggested that using multiple smaller memory cards was a good way to decrease the chances of losing data. It's hard to argue with the logic that several memory cards are unlikely to ...
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Corrupted JPG has undesired color bars overlay [duplicate]
I have transferred photos from my camera SD card to my computer (using a card/ram reader) and deleted the original photos. Now I have just realized there are color bars overlaid in photos. Here is an ...
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Nikon D60 shooting corrupt .nef files
I've been unable to shoot in raw on my camera for some time because the .nef files are corrupted. The corruption is consistent: the bottom half of the image is garbled, replaced by white static and ...
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Images colors getting distorted [duplicate]
When I click on a pictures to view them they seem to look perfectly fine on my laptop, like this:
But when I open them in the picture viewer or any other editor the colors are getting distorted:
Is ...
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What corrupted my 50d files after reinstall of Win7, CS6 and ACR on new SSD drive?
I bought a Solid State Drive and reinstalled windows on a fresh formatted new C drive.
I had to reinstall Adobe of course and installed ACR 9.2 as well as the Microsoft Camera Codec pack.
5dmk2 files ...
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Corrupt jpeg will not open [duplicate]
I have a Maxtor external hard drive which I store many photos on in the camera's raw format and also the converted jpegs. I have the photos broken down into several folders on the drive. Recently, ...
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Memory card is not showing all data [closed]
I have a Panasonic AG-AC90EN 1080p HD camera. I had recorded many video clips, then removed the memory card from camera and connected the memory card to my PC using SD card reader.
The problem is ...
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Why are my RAW images corrupt but the previews okay? [duplicate]
So I shot photos for my robotics team at an event this weekend and ~95% of them are corrupt. The JPG previews from the camera are fine, but when Adobe Bridge generates its own preview, the corruption ...
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