One more thing, this was my external archieve media. This was a removeable
slave drive. This should not have happened.

"John Inzer" wrote:

> 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
> How to ask a newsgroup question:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
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