Hi All, I've done a seach on here but couldn't fine exactly what I need. If I've overlooked a related thread sorry. So, my problem is that when transferring data from my digital cam to my computer an error occured which resulted in the connection being disrupted and the format of lots of my files got messed up. I still had the exact same volume of data on the SD card but somehow hundreds of single video and photo files got bundled into about 5 large files of an unknown format that I couln't open. I had over 600 files 200 were successfully transferred and remained unchanged on my SD card. The other 400 were bundled into the larger files. The problem was because my computer had problems reading video files directly from the camera. I now use a USB card reader for the SD card and I don't experience the problem anymore. I managed to rescue all my photo files using EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional 4.3.6. I could open these no problem and also the first fame of my video files. This software also managed to extract all my video files which are in the .MOV format. The problem is that it extracted each .MOV file in two parts. I can't get any program to play these files properly. The first part is more than 99% of the file and the second part is only a few KB. For example the first two recovered files are called File001.mov and File002.mov. The 1st one is 43,320Kb and the 2nd one is 4KB. From looking at the files which transferred OK the very first movie file I recorded onto the SD card has a size of 43,3204Kb, which is exactly the size of the two first recoverd files. Which indicates that these two files joined together would make a complete file. When I try open the larger file it is not recognised by Quicktime or Realplayer. When I open the small file it plays but with a blank screen and no sound. Although this file is only a few Kb it still plays for the original length of the video. I've tried merging and converting these files which various softwares but always get an error. Does anyone have an idea how I can get them to work or can you recommend another software/method for extracting/rescuing the files from the SD card? I have Windows XP, an 8GB Transcend SD card and the camera is a Panasonic FZ28. Thanks in advance, PW
Do you have xp setup so that it is showing file extensions. You might have to manually add the .mov extension again to each file. I would check that first. Also try opening those files with vlc player. VLC player is very good at opening MOV files, it opens all my mov files from 3 different digital cameras I have. Even quicktime had problems with them sometimes. You can also use avidemux to see it will open them up for you. If it's the only program that will open them you can use it to convert them to a different format xvid.
