Submariner wrote:
> No I am not DJ
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Ooops...Sorry. When you said "Still"
I thought it was a continuation of the
same issue.
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> They do not work on any comp if copied to a disc or
> viewed via ethernet connection on a seperate comp.
>
> They are on a slave HD on my PC in a dedicated photo file
> folder with over 20000 photos. It is very random at which
> are not viewable. Sometimes whole sub-folders are bad,
> some folders are okay, some are good and bad. Age (0-5
> years)of file does not matter except in the fact 100% of
> the phtos taken with a newer camera are fine (about 3-4K
> photos)
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If the files are not viewable on your PC,
or any other PC...in any type of editing
software...they are apparently corrupted.

This is certainly a good example of why
archiving images on external media is
so important.

Maybe software of the type at the following
link could recover them...maybe not. Might
be worth a try.

PC Inspector File Recovery
http://tinyurl.com/70lc

Also might be worth a try to Google for
image recovery options.

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP
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