I was using, (I'm looking for a new utility), PC Inspector, it doesn't
support PEF or DNG, directly, PEF is just a variation of TIFF. The way
it works is that it doesn't effect the card directly but copies what it
finds to a folder you specify on your computer. Unfortunately you lose
the original file name as I believe it scans the media directly ignoring
the actual directory structure, preforming a deep scan by default. .
When all the possible files have been recovered you rename them from
convarxxx.tif to convarxxx.pef and then you can cull those that are two
broken to read. After that you can then operate on them just like any
other PEF. I don;t know if that works with DNG files their internal
structure may be so different from the TIFF stnadard that the utility
may not recognize them as such.
The web site is here if you want to give it a try;
http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1
and you might as well, it's free.
They also have a card specific recovery program called Smart Recovery, I
had them both at one time. I can't remember which worked better;
http://www.pcinspector.de/SmartRecovery/info.htm?language=1
You could try to recover the images from the computer, but recovering
from the card would be more likely at this point, though a bit tedious.
On 6/13/2010 11:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Jun 13, 2010, at 6:42 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Using mv (move) instead of cp (copy) shouldn't overwrite any files on the card, unless
you're moving files /to/ the card. It should simply replace the first character in the
directory entry with a character the system recognizes f"empty" (I used to
know that code, I could probably look it up), and marks the space the file exists in used
as Free in the FAT. Move doesn't erase anything, it just updates the FAT, I assume mv,
does the same thing. I'm going by his description.
Exactly.
The line in my script was
mv /media/disk/dcim/*/* $1
The problem is that two different cards seemed to have
imgp7543.pef - imgp7577.pef
Or, whatever they were numbered, and the second card that I read had the less
critical files of those names.
On 6/13/2010 5:25 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling"<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Memory card image recovery programs
Cards are pseudo FAT formatted, and due to their design constraints the way
riles get erased, (or for that matter the card gets formatted), unless you go
to extraordinary lengths only the directory structure is changed by either of
those operations. The only way the data will be over written is if more photos
are taken, or new directories are created.
That's what Larry said "overwrote" - I took that to mean new images were added.
On 6/13/2010 4:38 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
Were the images overwritten or deleted?
My understanding is if they have been over written they can't be recovered.
Could be wrong but that's what I recall.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bran
Everseeking"<[email protected]>
To:<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: Memory card image recovery programs
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:36:53 -0700
Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote:
I did something stupd last night and overwrote some files when
copying them off an SD card.
I knew that using mv rather than cp was a bad idea, but I discovered
a failure mode that I hadn't thought of before.
Any recommendations for a program to recover erased files off an sd
card for either mac or linux?
--
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Courier
New;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the
interface subtly weird.\par
}
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
--
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Courier
New;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the
interface subtly weird.\par
}
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
--
Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
--
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Courier
New;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the
interface subtly weird.\par
}
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
