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thinh
25th of July 2001 (Wed), 13:16
Hello everyone,

Thank you for this site and everyone contributions. You all have made my experience with my new G1 more enjoyable.

Please Help - as part of managing my files. I somehow deleted the associated .thm files. I still have the .crw files.

I have looked in the recycling bin and cannot find the deleted .thm files.

My question is how can I recover/translate my .crw files without the associated .thm files ?
reddawn
25th of July 2001 (Wed), 23:29
thinh wrote:
Hello everyone,

Thank you for this site and everyone contributions. You all have made my experience with my new G1 more enjoyable.

Please Help - as part of managing my files. I somehow deleted the associated .thm files. I still have the .crw files.

I have looked in the recycling bin and cannot find the deleted .thm files.

My question is how can I recover/translate my .crw files without the associated .thm files ?


Hi

the good news is that without the .thm file your .crw file can still be converted using Canon's Rawconverter or Zoombrowser or any of the other excellent third party utilities like yarc or Breezebrowser.

Each .crw file contains a thumbnail of your image as well as the relevant exif info. I recommend Breezebrowser for extraction of the image info and images from raw files. I find its exif info format closer to that of Zoombrower. The best thing is, it allows you to extract to a full sized JPEG file WITH exif info directly from RAW files. This last feature is what I used most often for images that I have no wish to edit further. Breezebrowser also allows me to browse the RAW files at my own leisure, picking out the good ones and deleting the ones I don't wish to keep. (the program will intelligently delete both the .crw and .thm files)

Breezebrowser
http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/

It also does batch conversion, but I find Yarc to be far superior in this case. I usually end up with a bunch of RAW files on most of my shoots, and after deleting those dud ones using Breezebrowser, I will pick a bunch of good ones that I wish to further post process, and convert them using Yarc. When used with the latest version of Yarcshell (a companion program for Yarc), this makes batch conversion a breeze.

Yarc
http://www.roava.net/~henderbc/yarc.htm

Yarcshell
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/javacraft/digicam-toolbox/

Hope this helps :)
thinh
27th of July 2001 (Fri), 12:25
Cool, that did the tricks - Thanks RedDawn