Corrupt CR2 files... recoverable? JPG preview looks to be corrupt as well

[heawon]

Corrupt CR2 files... recoverable? JPG preview looks to be corrupt as well

CR2 file - https://www.dropbox.com/s/69f0zmofc0enkuc/443C6264.CR2?dl=0
JPG preview file - https://www.dropbox.com/s/xnwlhcckd2aaxfi/443C6266.jpg?dl=0


Thanks in advance Phil

[Phil Harvey]

Unfortunate.  Most of the data is there, so with a lot of pain and hand-poking you may be able to recover this image, but it would be a lot of work for each image you want to recover.

- Phil

[simon 1]

Hi Phil

I have some CR2 from saturday that cannot be open what part of the software would i use to open it.

sorry to resurrect an old thread but basically they had the same issue.

Thanks
Simon

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Simon,

Each case is different, but usually the best result you can hope for is to recover the full-sized embedded JPEG image.  Send me a sample and I'll take a look.  My email is philharvey66 at gmail.com

- Phil

[simon 1]

Hi Phil thanks email sent.

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Simon,

Bad news:

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> exiftool ~/Desktop/IMG_5734.CR2
ExifTool Version Number         : 11.02
File Name                       : IMG_5734.CR2
Directory                       : /Users/phil/Desktop
File Size                       : 23 MB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2018:06:08 08:07:58-04:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2018:06:11 12:32:39-04:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2018:06:11 12:32:39-04:00
File Permissions                : rwxrwxrwx
Error                           : Entire file is binary 0xff's
Base Name                       : IMG_5734
File Extension                  : CR2

The error says it all.

I've seen this type of corruption before.  Unfortunately, nothing may be recovered from a file like this.

A good hint that it doesn't contain any useful image data is that the file zipped down to just 38 kB.

- Phil

[simon 1]

hi

i thought that as i put several others through, and as you say it was too big for my email account to send it and when i compressed it it was small.

thanks for your time Phil