File question

[PaperCrowns]

I have a lot of file won't open that say this Df759.cr2, photoshop says wrong kind of file, any ideas?

[Damien Symonds]

Is it a photo you took yourself?

[PaperCrowns]

Yes,  I lost several files on my external hard drive and I used a service to get them back, but now they won't open in photoshop. All the Df files that is.

Edited May 10, 2019 by PaperCrowns
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[PaperCrowns]

Also Dg files.

[Damien Symonds]

Ah.

Brian will have wiser advice, but in my experience you can have success (sometimes) by changing the filename.  Try ".tif" and ".jpg" and even ".psd" to see what happens.

Also, do you mind sending me one or two of the troublesome files?  https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/BellePhotography

[PaperCrowns]

Thank you, I'll try that and files sent.

[Damien Symonds]

Those files are much too small to be real raw files, aren't they?  They're only around 7MB.

[Damien Symonds]

Sorry, I've tried all the file formats I can think of.  Nothing is working.

Brian might have some wiser ideas, but honestly, with the file sizes so small, I fear these files are unusable.

[PaperCrowns]

That is  very odd. I wonder if they are to corrupted. I looked at an other file and it is only 8MB. All the files say cr2, thanks for the heads-up.

[Brian]

With data recovery, it pulls together bits and pieces and tries to assemble them in what it thinks is a master file. Unfortunately, It doesn't always work. You could try renaming one as TestFile01.TIFF and see what happens. Those files you are looking for might be gone for good. That said, I would try finding another filename that is similar and one that you recognize and try and open that one. Often with data recovery, you will have 5-10 versions of the same file and they each have their own file extension, e.g., .dng, .jpg, .gif. cr2, etc.

[Brian]

25 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

They're only around 7MB.

You are correct, they aren't full .cr2 files. It's just what the data recovery software that the service used and it named them that.