Digital BW, The Print

Thanks to all for the suggestions.

Eric, my usual download routine is to use Breeze Downloader Pro, which 
dumps from the card to a folder called FROM CARDS and while doing so 
renames each image to my standard  YYYYMMDD HHMMSS file name.  I use a 
Windows file manager (Xplorer2, a dual-pane manager that mimics the old 
Norton Commander layout, although I have the feeling it's just a front 
end for Windows Explorer) to move the individual images from the From 
Cards folder to whatever folder they belong in.

I just started using Lightroom to process the 100-150 images I make into 
Christmas Books for family members - been doing it for about 25 years 
now, using Photoshop 7 up until this year for processing (Developing, in 
Lightroom speak) and QImage for printing.  I store images in folders 
named for the event covered and just use my regular file manager to keep 
track of things.  I haven't started using Lightroom for any of its 
database or printing functions yet. (I have had IMatch since I switched 
from film to digital - that's also an image database manager, but I only 
use it for its contact sheet making ability, primarily because it 
numbers sequentially and remembers the last number you used.)

I tried renaming the strangely-named files using my file manager, but 
get an error message "Cannot rename file:  Cannot read from the source 
file or disk."

Last night the camera showed 156 images on the card and I could see each 
one as I scrolled through.  Now, though, the camera only shows 93, which 
is how many "good" ones there were.  I have all 93 of 'em on my hard 
drive, so they're safe.

Mark and Tony - many thanks for the recommendation of Photo Rescue. It 
was less expensive that the other software I looked at last night (at 
least I think it was cheaper - I was prowling around at ~2AM this 
morning, and THINK everything I came across was $49, so the $29 for 
Photo Rescue was too good to pass up.)  It took two passes to recover 
everything on the card, but it found all 156 images, and I now have all 
of 'em on hard disk in apparently workable NEF format. I can see all 
images with my usual browsers, all imported into Lightroom without 
complaint, and I've done some Lightroom adjustments on several of the 
files that had bad names on the CF card, with perfectly normal looking 
results.

So I'm thinking I'm back in business.  BUT - FOLLOW UP QUESTION: This is 
the first time I've had this experience with either the D70 or the D100 
I used before - with ANY CF card.  I've probably used a dozen different 
cards over the years without incident - is this an indication that this 
particular CF card is bad, or is it just one of those gremlin or cosmic 
ray things that can happen and never happen again?  Even though this 
software recovered everything perfectly, I wouldn't want to have to 
count on being able to do that if this particular card is likely to do 
it again.

Again, thanks for all the help.

Cheers,
Kip

On 12/26/2012 1:19 PM, E.Neilsen wrote:
>
> Kip, What was the initial workflow to get them downloaded, Lr? It sounds
> like you might try renaming the files and get rid of the semi colon. 
> If you
> put the card in the camera, how many shots doe it show that you used? Do
> you want to post one some where?
>


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