That's a shame. I was hoping there was a way to save the recovered dialogue box. Yes. not saving but copyingthe previews to clipboard and then inserting it into Corel PhotoPaint one at a time and saving as a .jpg from there. If I try to open the recovered .jpgs I get error messages saying they are not valid, corrupted, etc. Even IrFanViewer won't open them. That's only the ones it does recover. Yes, you are so right it's very laborious but at the moment it's going to be the only way I can save those precious pictures taken on the cruise ship I went round the world on, teaching quilting. I had no means of backup on the ship and the drive (new in Hong Kong in March and working really well till now - not full up either as it's a 2TB one and guaranteed for three years (WD Passport) so not a cheapie) failed before I could back it up at home here. If I try to recover all the files by selecting all, then that's when I get the Dummy files in the recovered folders. See attached screenshot. If you have any ideas I'd be grateful.