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Author Topic: Fixing damaged jpg's and videos Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-10-2011 04:39 PM                     I was able to recover a bunch of photos from a partial overwritten backup drive. Most of these photos are ok and open up. The videos will not open with any program that I have installed. I just did a recover on another drive and found my old Iphoto library, and I opened package contents, and everything is there... except nothing will open. A google search brings up tons of recovery software options but very few if any "fix" programs. Can anyone recommend a program to use?  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 11-10-2011 04:44 PM                        imagemagick can do some amazing stuff.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-11-2011 11:55 AM                        How much do you care about this stuff? If it is extremely valuable and worth spending money to recover, then stop right now and call a data recovery service. Expect to spend a four-digit sum to have them look at your hardware and expect no guarantees of success. Anything you do now could cause more harm than good. If this stuff is noncritical but nice to have, then I second the recommendation of the Imagemagick tools. Alternatively, send me a sample file and I will take a look at it.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-16-2011 07:59 PM                     I just downloaded imagemagick, but it seems like it's a bit complicated to install. I'll read up on it and try to figure it out. None of it's critical, although it's a shame to lose the past 5-6 years worth of photos I was able to recover some of them with Data Rescue 3, but I'm guessing since the Iphoto library was in a container, Data Rescue was unable to process the files. Scott, I'll email you a few of them thanks!  |  IP: Logged

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