Hello,
Yesterday I messed up bigtime!
I accidentaly deleted a lot of pictures from a friend.
(I first copied them to a new location, and after that deleted the original.
So far so good, but then I accidentaly hit ‘undo’.
It didn’t undo the deleting (cause it was pemanent) so it did undo the copying!!!
And I could ‘re-do’ because the original files where gone…!!!#)
I searched for a few minutes and then shut-down the laptop. Carefully not to install the "pending-update".
At home I run recuva.
At first I was trilled, because I saw it was really recovering the files from exactly the 'old' folder-locations, I had lost, and the amount of pictures was about wright!!
But then all the files turned out to be corrupted.
I tried to open them with; windows, photoshop, irfanview, paintshop pro, easeuse and 'Stellar'.
Also I tried renaming the extention (.jpg) manually and convert them. (offline and online)
But no succes! :(
The message I got; "File is corrupted or to big in size"
The first time recuva ran, it seemed to find all the files, but....
The second (and third and fourth, etc) time I ran recuva, it wasn't able to find the majority of the lost pictures anymore.
Only the first time it saw all the ca. 1000 pictures, all following tests only showed about 120 pictures. (all still corrupt)
Originally the pictures where in 2 folders. At the first runthrough recuva found the pictures in both folders, later on it only found one folder.
Strange thing is that in my perception nothing on the HD changed in between the loss of the pictures and running recuva.
So I dont understand why the files are all corrupted. I expected some to be corrupted, but defenitely not all, because there was no HD-writing afterwards.
I also dont understand why recuva could find all files at first, but not later on.
I hope someone has any ideas on how this could happen… (I purposely didn’t run the updates at shutdown)
And I hope someone has any advise on how I can try to 'repair' those corrupted files..., or a way to retreive them otherways.</strong>
I did use recuva as a portable app, to prevent overwriting.
Greetings and thanks in advance,
Michiel