Possibly Corrupt Card or RAW Files??

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Looking for a little assistance if possible. Trying to help out a friend whose wedding photographer seemingly had a corrupt card while shooting. The images exist - I just can't open them. I've used File Scavenger to see if there was anything hidden on the card, but it didn't find anything useful. At this point, I can see the files on the card. What's odd is that I see a "like" file by the same name but starting with a period and then an underscore. These files are mostly in the 4KB range, whereas the CR3 files are much larger. I'm guessing the card is corrupt or that there is/was a process that sees the ._xxx file as a cached file temporarily before it "releases" the full raw file. Not sure - but I haven't figured out a solution yet. Since they're wedding photos, I'd like to give it the ol' college try. Also, I've tried inserting the card back into another Canon camera to see if I could view the images - I could not. I took a few additional RAW shots and could see those - just not the originals. When viewing on a PC, it still shows the files like in the attached images.

D Fosse · Answer

Can the files be seen in the original camera?

I absolutely sympathize, this is the worst disaster. That's the pressure of doing wedding photography, you just can't mess it up. You have one chance to get it right. But if raw files are corrupted, I don't know of any way to retrieve them.

A little late now, but what I notice here is that it seems the files have been accessed on the card itself, which is never a good idea. They should always be copied to disk first, and first opened from disk. They should be transferred from a card reader, not a cable to the camera. If the camera battery runs out in the process, that can corrupt the files.

Maybe try another raw converter, like a Capture One trial download. Just to see if the files are at all recoverable.

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