Hoping for help...image rescue?

[Brenda in CA]

My husband took a bunch of pictures on my Nikon D70 yesterday. When he got home, they weren't showing up on the camera, but he said he saw the pictures on the LCD after he took each one.

I used Image Rescue 2.0 and did a low level search for files. It found 300+ files. They all were .THM files. My PhotoShop Elements program says it can't open them although Image Rescue says Photoshop and other kinds of programs like this should be able to open them. When I tried to convert them to bring them into Photoshop, I got an error.

Anyone know how I can see what these files are and change them to .jpg files? I'd love to know if any of them are pictures dh took yesterday (of dd's field trip).

Thanks for any help!

 

[deletedpenguin]

THM files are thumbnail files that the camera creates before creating a RAW file format. Try converting them to RAW file format, then to JPG if you don't want to deal with RAW. If you have already tried Image Rescue and it didn't work, try using Flash Fixers (http://www.flashfixers.com/). If they are in fact true thumbnail files, then you won't have much to work with though, as their resolution will be fairly small. Try changing just the extension to .jpg and see if you can open them that way as well.

Hope this helps.

 

[Brenda in CA]

THM files are thumbnail files that the camera creates before creating a RAW file format. Try converting them to RAW file format, then to JPG if you don't want to deal with RAW. If you have already tried Image Rescue and it didn't work, try using Flash Fixers (http://www.flashfixers.com/). If they are in fact true thumbnail files, then you won't have much to work with though, as their resolution will be fairly small. Try changing just the extension to .jpg and see if you can open them that way as well.

Hope this helps.

How would I convert them to RAW files? I know that my camera can save pictures as RAW files, but I have it set up to save them as JPEG files.

I'll check out flashfixers.com and see what can be done there.

I did try to change the extension to .jpg, but I got a message telling me that if I continued I would likely lose information and not be able to recover it again.

 

[deletedpenguin]

How would I convert them to RAW files? I know that my camera can save pictures as RAW files, but I have it set up to save them as JPEG files.

I'll check out flashfixers.com and see what can be done there.

I did try to change the extension to .jpg, but I got a message telling me that if I continued I would likely lose information and not be able to recover it again.

You'd have to use a program to change to RAW.

As for changing the extension, it will always tell you, but you can always switch back as well. If you don't want to risk it, copy one of the files and test it on that one. The warning message you're getting is just a standard message you get when you perform that same action with any sort of file.

 

[Brenda in CA]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I changed the extension to .jpg and found the lost pictures!!! There were quite a few from this past weekend when we went to the mountains and of my daughter's field trip.

Thanks so much for your help!!

 

[deletedpenguin]

My pleasure, glad it worked.