Digital BW, The Print

I suspect it was a hiccup in the file transfer or renaming of the files.   Are you transferring directly from the camera via usb cable or via a usb/compact flash card reader.   I strongly suggesting your not importing via NIKON software that you should a card reader.

Lastly I have had great recover results with the San Disk progam.

Paul
On Dec 26, 2012, at 4:48 PM, Kip Babington <cbabing3@...> wrote:

> Thanks to all for the suggestions.
> 
> Eric, my usual download routine is to use Breeze Downloader Pro, which 
> dumps from the card to a folder called FROM CARDS and while doing so 
> renames each image to my standard YYYYMMDD HHMMSS file name. I use a 
> Windows file manager (Xplorer2, a dual-pane manager that mimics the old 
> Norton Commander layout, although I have the feeling it's just a front 
> end for Windows Explorer) to move the individual images from the From 
> Cards folder to whatever folder they belong in.
> 
> I just started using Lightroom to process the 100-150 images I make into 
> Christmas Books for family members - been doing it for about 25 years 
> now, using Photoshop 7 up until this year for processing (Developing, in 
> Lightroom speak) and QImage for printing. I store images in folders 
> named for the event covered and just use my regular file manager to keep 
> track of things. I haven't started using Lightroom for any of its 
> database or printing functions yet. (I have had IMatch since I switched 
> from film to digital - that's also an image database manager, but I only 
> use it for its contact sheet making ability, primarily because it 
> numbers sequentially and remembers the last number you used.)
> 
> I tried renaming the strangely-named files using my file manager, but 
> get an error message "Cannot rename file: Cannot read from the source 
> file or disk."
> 
> Last night the camera showed 156 images on the card and I could see each 
> one as I scrolled through. Now, though, the camera only shows 93, which 
> is how many "good" ones there were. I have all 93 of 'em on my hard 
> drive, so they're safe.
> 
> Mark and Tony - many thanks for the recommendation of Photo Rescue. It 
> was less expensive that the other software I looked at last night (at 
> least I think it was cheaper - I was prowling around at ~2AM this 
> morning, and THINK everything I came across was $49, so the $29 for 
> Photo Rescue was too good to pass up.) It took two passes to recover 
> everything on the card, but it found all 156 images, and I now have all 
> of 'em on hard disk in apparently workable NEF format. I can see all 
> images with my usual browsers, all imported into Lightroom without 
> complaint, and I've done some Lightroom adjustments on several of the 
> files that had bad names on the CF card, with perfectly normal looking 
> results.
> 
> So I'm thinking I'm back in business. BUT - FOLLOW UP QUESTION: This is 
> the first time I've had this experience with either the D70 or the D100 
> I used before - with ANY CF card. I've probably used a dozen different 
> cards over the years without incident - is this an indication that this 
> particular CF card is bad, or is it just one of those gremlin or cosmic 
> ray things that can happen and never happen again? Even though this 
> software recovered everything perfectly, I wouldn't want to have to 
> count on being able to do that if this particular card is likely to do 
> it again.
> 
> Again, thanks for all the help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kip
> 
> On 12/26/2012 1:19 PM, E.Neilsen wrote:
> >
> > Kip, What was the initial workflow to get them downloaded, Lr? It sounds
> > like you might try renaming the files and get rid of the semi colon. 
> > If you
> > put the card in the camera, how many shots doe it show that you used? Do
> > you want to post one some where?
> >
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