Thank you for the complete test and thumbs down. The fact that it does
not recognize raw files is a huge negativo.
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977
http://www.zuiko.com | omtech1 AT verizon.net
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> A couple of days ago John Hermanson reported that he had heard good
> words about the capabilities of a file recovery program for flash cards.
> <http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm>
>
> I downloaded the program (bypassing one error message) and thought that
> I would probably wait years to try it out. I've never had a problem
> with any of my CF cards.
>
> Well, I didn't have to wait long. While out shooting today with the
> camera set for both raw and large JPEG's I shut the camera off
> prematurely. I thought the OFF switch was a soft switch and that the
> camera wouldn't power down until any I/O activity was completed.
> Apparently not so for the 5D. The raw file was successfully saved but
> the JPEG was still being written when the power dropped and that file
> ended up corrupted.
>
> I had thought I was through shooting but eventually turned the camera
> back on an and shot another fourteen frames beyond the corrupted one
> which, at that point, I didn't know was corrupted.
>
> When trying to download with Downloader Pro I got an error message
> saying that an I/O error had been recevied from the media and the file
> was corrupted. The download stopped after the error without fetching
> the remaining fourteen good frames. It did tell me, however, that those
> files existed and I was able to successfully download the remainder by
> specifically selecting them without the corrupted file included in the
> download request. In other words, just ask it to go around the bad spot
> and not try to go through it.
>
> Since the raw file had been downloaded there was really no reason to try
> to recover the JPEG. However, since I knew I had prematurely shut off
> the camera at the point of failure I suspected that the file was, at
> mimimum, incomplete but I was curious to see what Smart Recovery would
> be able to do.
>
> Well, the answer is not inspiring. First, it can only recover JPEGS.
> It knows not of any kind of raw files. Secondly it's just plain pretty
> dumb. After running for about 2 hours through my 1.6GB of images data
> it managed to recover only the JPEGS up to the same point that
> Downloader Pro had gotten to in a couple of minutes. Did Smart Recovery
> report an I/O error and corrupted file as Downloader Pro did. No.
> It just quitely quit completely as though is had successfully read
> everything on the media. There was no hint of any error condition ot
> that there might be recoverable data beyond the point of the error.
>
> I recommend that everyone skip this one and find something else. This
> one is not ready for prime time and I have just uninstalled mine.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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