Pay to fix Corrupted CR2

[rmajoran]

Hello,

Just wondering if someone has the time to repair a corrupted CR2 file for me. I am happy to pay for it.

Just let me know what you need (i.e. corrupted CR2 and a couple of intact CR2s), and I can send you a Dropbox link.

(If you can get the first file working, I will likely have some more as well.)

Sincerely,
Ray

[rmajoran]

Seeing that I won't be checking this thread for the next 10 hours, if anyone gets ambitious and wants to take a crack at it...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4hrqy1z1kmjqq1c/AACkbZ0mKAOC_btDuGjjks35a?dl=0

There are 2 folders: Corrupted Files and Good Files. In Corrupted Files, 2719.CR2 is the one I want to start with.

Both folders contain files from the same morning.

Sincerely,
Ray

[Phil Harvey]

I used my extract_preview script (search the forum to find it plus instructions) on your first image, and retrieved this embedded JPEG image.

- Phil

[rmajoran]

Phil,

That is extremely helpful (and extremely sad for me).

I recovered about 50 deleted images off a card, and the file you extracted is actually a file I already had. So it looks like although I recovered the files, they were actually overwritten.

I will search for the extract_preview script just to verify.

Thank you so much for your help. Do I owe you anything?

Ray

[rmajoran]

Phil,

I ran the script (see below) on one of my images and it just gave me an error. Did I run it properly?

(Note: When I tried to run extract_preview without exiftool in front of it, it kept saying: "This scripts requires Image::ExifTool -- please install it.". Even though it is "installed", it kept giving me that.)

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exiftool ./extract_preview '2M6C2719.CR2'
======== ./extract_preview
ExifTool Version Number         : 10.09
File Name                       : extract_preview
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 8.0 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2013:10:10 07:57:26-04:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2016:01:21 10:04:05-05:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2016:01:21 09:16:14-05:00
File Permissions                : rwxr-xr-x
File Type                       : perl script
File Type Extension             : pl
MIME Type                       : text/x-perl
======== 2M6C2719.CR2
ExifTool Version Number         : 10.09
File Name                       : 2M6C2719.CR2
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 27 MB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2015:11:08 10:07:39-05:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2016:01:21 10:04:05-05:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2016:01:21 09:16:50-05:00
File Permissions                : rw-r--r--
Error                           : File format error
    2 image files read

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[rmajoran]

Got it. Thanks

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,5911.msg29078.html#msg29078

Ray