And now for the plaintive appeal

[akujunkan]

To any of you who might have suggestions.

To make a long story short, I had to buy a second camera during my trip through Cambodia. It was a Fuji FinePix A600, replacing a Fuji Finepix F450. Not knowing any better, I used my Fuji XD memory card in both.

This apparently messed with the memory card, with the result that I can only access about an eight of the pictures I took during the trip. They're there on the card; icons show up when I plug it into my USB reader, but I can't copy, open, or view them.

These pictures included, among other things, the imperial tombs at Hue, the ruins at My Son and Ta Prohm, and (sweet baby Jesus just thinking about this makes me want to take a header off of the roof) sunrise at Angkor Wat.

Anyone dealt with anything like this before? Know how I can get my pictures back? Or failing that, who I can talk to to help me?

助けてくれ～ょ

That will be all.

Comments

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that sucks. I wish I could be more helpful, but the best thing I can think of is to use some sort of file/disk recovery software. It should treat your USB card like any drive, and attempt to recover the data off it. If you can see icons, I would think it would have a good chance of getting the data back.

I don't know what the best tool is nowadays for your platform of choice. I used to use Norton Disk Doctor, but I think there are better packages now.

Not sure where you are now in your travels, but... are you still taking pictures with that memory card? If you are, stop and buy another card. Every picture you take increases the risk of writing over old data you want to recover.