Sorry to hear about this situation. This is definitely not a problem anyone wants to have.
It looks like the files are filed with garbage. There must have been some kind of import error, which we can explore later. First and foremost though, if you haven't done anything to the SD card (i.e. written new photos to it) it's possible you can still restore the "deleted" images. There is software available for this very purpose. Here's a thread about this on the Ubuntu forums, which discusses a couple of tools: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=172296 Also, ZD Net has an article about this, although it only covers Windows and Mac. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/digitalcameras/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-your-sd-card/1102 - Eric On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:23 PM, eraemaajaervi <[email protected]>wrote: > hi, > > i've imported about 200 pictures in Shotwell from an SD card. but now about > 85% of those pictures won't open in any picture viewer, not even in > shotwell > itself ("Photo source file missing"). The files exist, the filesize ranges > from 2 to 4 MB, which is normal. but when trying a picture (with eog or > convert or GIMP) i get the following error message "convert: Not a JPEG > file: starts with 0x06 0x00 `IMG_5641.JPG' @ error/jpeg.c/EmitMessage/235." > you can find a sample file here: http://uploaded.to/file/p92efbwj > > since shotwell told me about a successful import, i approved the removal of > all imported pictures on the SD card. so i have no copy left of the > originals. so it would be very, very bad i the pictures can't be rescued. > > oh, shotwell displays the thumbnails in the library overview. but no full > size pictures. > this was the first time i directly imported from an SD card. and probably > the last time. > > please help. i'm sure you all could image how you'd feel if almost all your > vacation pictures are lost > .eraemaajaervi > > ps: i was using v0.9.2 at the time of import > > -- > View this message in context: > http://shotwell.3510.www.nabble.com/Shotwell-corrupted-JPEGs-after-import-tp38689p38689.html > Sent from the Shotwell mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
