The Lexar recovery software did a great job. Got everything back and
anything else that hadn't been written over in the meantime.
At 06:26 PM 5/7/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>First, I would advise you in the future to never have your computer
>write back to the CF card. Supposedly it's logically a standard FAT or
>FAT-32 disk but I've heard too many stories of incompatibilty with the
>camera. Perhaps it's nothing but the directory structure that the
>camera expects but I prefer to stay away.
I think I'll stay away henceforth as well.
But, yes, it sounds like you haven't tried it, and in fact it has never
been a problem to write to the CF card, and that certainly wasn't the issue
in this case (unless attempting to delete is a form of writing -- not being
a smart aleck, since I think deleting is really writing a filename
change?). But if this is bad practice, I blame Ag Schozz entirely, since
he put me on to the practice of doing all sorts of things in Viewer prior
to transfer to the hard disk -- no doubt to punish me for getting my OM
adapter before he did. My revenge will be calculated and subtle. >:^P
(OK, just kidding, Ken.)
>All that said, it would appear that you've located a bug in Olympus
>Viewer. Hard to say what it actually did except that it wrote some
>trash to the CF card somewhere. I think it's highly unlikey that it
>actually erased all the images, however.
All's well that ends well. First time through the software located all my
.jpgs. I had to go to preferences and change them to get it to find my
ORFs during a second pass.
Thanks again, Chuck.
Joel W.
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