Missing photos, help please

SouthOz · Post by **SouthOz** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:31 am

Hi there. I was running a batch rotation, and my computer shut down in the middle of it. Now half of that batch are gone. The file names are still there, listed as .JPG, as they were before, but the file size is 0. You click on them and they open with a text editor, but of course there's nothing there.
Has anyone experienced this? Is there a restore file or similar?
Cheers.

SouthOz · Post by **SouthOz** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:03 am

Was running a batch rotation job on a folder full of photos and my computer randomly turned off. Half the files are still listed but are 0 bytes file size.
Can they be recovered?
Thanks in advance.

Post by **XnTriq** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:45 am

Welcome to the forum, SouthOz.

What operating system are you running?
Windows: Show hidden files

SouthOz · Post by **SouthOz** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:47 am

Xubuntu.
Not showing up in hidden files unfortunately, or in the trash.

Post by **XnTriq** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:15 am

Could you please search your drives for files named *xnbak*?

SouthOz · Post by **SouthOz** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:28 am

A search for xnbak yielded nothing unfortunately

Post by **XnTriq** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:35 am

SouthOz wrote: Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:28 amA search for xnbak yielded nothing unfortunately

SouthOz · Post by **SouthOz** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:57 am

Looks like I managed to get them all back. Ran a photo recovery tool on the camera memory card they came from and were 'deleted' from.
Cheers for help.

cday · Post by **cday** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:00 am

SouthOz wrote: Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:57 am Looks like I managed to get them all back. Ran a photo recovery tool on the camera memory card they came from and were 'deleted' from.
Cheers for help.

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