lexie Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Hi guys, I used Recuva to recovered the image.Does anyone know a program to fix corrupted images? or maybe know how to fix corrupted images? I deleted an image from my camera by accident, then I recovered it with Recuva; however, the image is now messed up the camera is a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W810 and i’m trying to get the photos off the SD card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted September 3 Moderators Share Posted September 3 Are you able to open the recovered image? What viewer are you trying to view it in? What file format is the image? (I believe the cyber-shot uses ARW format as default, which some viewers may not be able to open) If your problem is that it won't open then many, including myself, have had success opening problematic/damaged images using Irfanview when nothing else will open them. Irfanview is a free viewer/editor and it is more tolerant of damaged image files than many other image viewers. It does open ARW format images, but can't save as ARW. If Irfanview can open damaged images then saving them again from Irfanview 'fixes' the damage, so that other viewers can open them too. (In the case of an ARW image you would have to 'Save as' some other format such as jpg). However some recovered images may have been partially overwritten and so are unopenable or only partly there. eg. You may get only part of the deleted image back, (usually the first half or three-quarters of it), the rest had been overwritten and so now is just a grey or multi-coloured blank. Some will be entirely gray or multi coloured, that's an indication that whilst the file header was recovered the storage memory area that header points to has been wiped and/or something other than a valid image file is now there. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Keep getting logged out of websites? See this link: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/67601-saved-passwords/#comment-349999 Wondering about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexie Posted September 3 Author Share Posted September 3 3 hours ago, nukecad said: Are you able to open the recovered image? What viewer are you trying to view it in? What file format is the image? (I believe the cyber-shot uses ARW format as default, which some viewers may not be able to open) If your problem is that it won't open then many, including myself, have had success opening problematic/damaged images using Irfanview when nothing else will open them. Irfanview is a free viewer/editor and it is more tolerant of damaged image files than many other image viewers. It does open ARW format images, but can't save as ARW. If Irfanview can open damaged images then saving them again from Irfanview 'fixes' the damage, so that other viewers can open them too. (In the case of an ARW image you would have to 'Save as' some other format such as jpg). However some recovered images may have been partially overwritten and so are unopenable or only partly there. eg. You may get only part of the deleted image back, (usually the first half or three-quarters of it), the rest had been overwritten and so now is just a grey or multi-coloured blank. Some will be entirely gray or multi coloured, that's an indication that whilst the file header was recovered the storage memory area that header points to has been wiped and/or something other than a valid image file is now there. I am able to open the recovered image and the file format is jpg. the last part of you said is exactly what’s happening to me … i’m only getting part of the deleted image back or on other photos it will come out multi colored. is there anything i can do about that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted September 3 Moderators Share Posted September 3 Sorry, not that I am aware of. If it's opening but scrambled or blank then that means that the original file header is still recoverable to be recognised and opened, but the origianl image data that it points to is no longer there in the order that it expects to find it, usually because part or all of that data has been overwritten with something else. You could try one or more of the many free image repair tools that are out there, a websearch will find plenty, but I wouldn't hold out much hope. For example (I've never tried it so can't comment if it's any good or not, but Easeus are respected): https://www.easeus.com/file-recovery/repair-corrupted-jpeg-files.html Unless it's a really important image I wouldn't pay for any professional recovery attempt, or professional image fixing attempt either. Of course only you can decided if the image is worth the cost of trying a professional forensic recovery/fix service. (Irreplacable wedding photos etc, may be worth the cost of trying). *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Keep getting logged out of websites? See this link: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/67601-saved-passwords/#comment-349999 Wondering about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexie Posted September 4 Author Share Posted September 4 18 hours ago, nukecad said: Sorry, not that I am aware of. If it's opening but scrambled or blank then that means that the original file header is still recoverable to be recognised and opened, but the origianl image data that it points to is no longer there in the order that it expects to find it, usually because part or all of that data has been overwritten with something else. You could try one or more of the many free image repair tools that are out there, a websearch will find plenty, but I wouldn't hold out much hope. For example (I've never tried it so can't comment if it's any good or not, but Easeus are respected): https://www.easeus.com/file-recovery/repair-corrupted-jpeg-files.html Unless it's a really important image I wouldn't pay for any professional recovery attempt, or professional image fixing attempt either. Of course only you can decided if the image is worth the cost of trying a professional forensic recovery/fix service. (Irreplacable wedding photos etc, may be worth the cost of trying). the link that you gave me worked !! thank you… when i downloaded them to my computer thought they came out very pixelated and the photo was small do you know if there’s any way to fix that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted September 4 Moderators Share Posted September 4 Good to hear that you got at least something recognisable back. Any decent photo editor can do a resize, and should be able to do something about the pixelation too. Just work with a copy, and resave at each stage as you improve things. As the Easeus tool worked for you to get a pixelated image back then to reduce the pixelation (after you have resized the image?) maybe try this: https://multimedia.easeus.com/photo-enhancer/ It says there that the 'Unblur' button can improve pixelated images. If that doesn't do what you want then it will be back to doing it manually in an image editor. eg These are some of the image manipulation tools in Irfanview: "Resize/Resample" may be able to help with the pixelation, try different resample filters. or try a different editor to see if it has a 'Smooth' tool and try that. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Keep getting logged out of websites? See this link: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/67601-saved-passwords/#comment-349999 Wondering about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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