Anyone ever had a file do this?

I shot an event for my day job and some of the photos look like this in lightroom. They look perfect, but once I click the thumbnail they do this weird psychedelic business or turn completely black. Not all of the photos are doing this, but probably 1/4th of them are.

Even stranger, if I navigate straight to one of the affected photos on the card and open it with the windows photo viewer it looks just fine.

I also tried deleting several of the affected photos and then importing them again into LR. Some did right, while others did not.

Because of it opening fine in Windows Photo Viewer though, wouldn't that mean the problem lies in LR itself for whatever reason?

UPDATE: I think I figured it out! I imported with a different card reader, and the photos are fine. I'm hoping it's a simple issue with that particular card and the built in card reader on the computer not getting along. This computer is less than a month old and it CANT already be failing.

IMAGE LINK: https://www.flickr.com …88432164@N07/13​347109883/

Try viewing them in several ways, the card back in the camera, different USB ports, etc...

The problem seems to be my card reader on my desktop. I have a super cheap card (yes I know....I need to throw that out) and for whatever reason, it seemed to disagree with the build in reader. They uploaded fine from an external reader. I'm going to test my other cards with the built in reader and be sure it's not faulty. Hopefully, it was some compatibility issue and not the reader itself.

There can be problems with cards, cables, readers...just patiently trouble-shoot! And if like you said the problem is with one thing or another, get rid of it! And, built-in card readers seem to have a bit of a reputation...I've stuck with external card readers for a lot of years!

Yes, that has happened to me once before. Last year I got back from my Japan trip and found about 1/3 of the pictures from one card were like that. I copied all the Raw files to my hard drive and viewed them in Zoom Browser and they all looked fine. When I opened them up in PSE, they looked like that. Luckily, when I recopied them onto my hard drive, they were fine. All importation was done with the built in SD card reader on my Dell laptop.

It hasn't happened since, but from now on I always spot check some pictures in PSE before deleting them from the card.

Wow, I couldn't do that if I tried. Cool.

The reason that it may look fine in some viewers is that many basic image viewers when looking at RAW files simply display the embedded JPEG preview. That part of the file often downloads OK, while the RAW data itself is corrupted. Adobe Bridge uses the preview until you open the file in ACR. In LR it will initially use the preview until the program has had time to build all of the images with the default conversion.

Alan

alabama1980 wrote in post #16778913
UPDATE: I think I figured it out! I imported with a different card reader, and the photos are fine. I'm hoping it's a simple issue with that particular card and the built in card reader on the computer not getting along. This computer is less than a month old and it CANT already be failing.




McDermott-1-2 by asheltonphoto1, on Flickr

good thing it's not a corrupt card