Hi everyone!
A few weeks ago I was cleaning my hard drive and by a terrible mistake I deleted a lot of .CR2 files (323 to be exact :'(). I'm a graphic designer and now i need to work with those files.
I managed to recover all of them with TuneUp (which said all file were OK and recoverables, because they had not been overwritten yet). The case is that I cant open them with Photoshop or any other software.
So I downloaded ExifTool and since I'm really a newbie, I only managed to extract some info of the files. For example:
ExifTool Version Number : 9.74
File Name : IMG_0715
Directory : D:/
File Size : 23 MB
File Modification Date/Time : 2013:07:02 21:34:44-03:00
File Access Date/Time : 2014:10:15 20:44:26-03:00
File Creation Date/Time : 2014:10:15 20:44:26-03:00
File Permissions : rw-rw-rw-
Error : File format error
¿Do you think is possible to fix this files o even extract a JPG preview?
Here's one of the files, in case you want to check it
http://www.mediafire.com/download/obu6mj2o60el6go/IMG_0715.rar
(http://www.mediafire.com/download/obu6mj2o60el6go/IMG_0715.rar)
Kind regards and thanks in advance!
Hello LoupGarou,
I've had a quick look at your file and I'm sorry to say I can't help you recover it :(
Though the file is not empty, it seemed to consist of purely random data. I could not even find the start bytes (e.g., a combination of the characters II* followed by CR) of what would indicate that there was a CR2 file somewhere in the data. I'm not sure what the recovery software retrieved, but it doesn't seem to be the file you were after.
I sure hope you have a backup somewhere, because I'm afraid the files are lost >:(
Sorry,
Hayo
Exactly.
Thank you mates for taking the time to check the files. Sadly I don't have a backup, but now I know the files are definitely broken and I might be able to take the pictures again.
Thanks!