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Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:31 am
by SouthOz
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.

Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:03 am
by SouthOz
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.

Re: Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:45 am
by XnTriq
Welcome to the forum, SouthOz.

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

Re: Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:47 am
by SouthOz
Xubuntu.
Not showing up in hidden files unfortunately, or in the trash.

Re: Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:15 am
by XnTriq
Could you please search your drives for files named *xnbak*?

Re: Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:28 am
by SouthOz
A search for xnbak yielded nothing unfortunately

Re: Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:35 am
by XnTriq
SouthOz wrote: Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:28 amA search for xnbak yielded nothing unfortunately
:-(

Re: Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:57 am
by SouthOz
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.

Re: Missing photos, help please

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:00 am
by cday
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.
:D

Whenever possible work on a copy of your files!