SWF FILES

Help please, we have managed to retrieve files from an SDF card that we purchased (from ebay, now realising that it's a fake), and have been able to retrieve over 80 files but they are all in SWF format. Any ideas what to use to be able to open these files. .

Xnview.

Try renaming to jpeg or cr2 and see what happens when you try opening them.

SWF is adobe flash....from my experience....

110yd

110yd wrote in post #17526987
SWF is adobe flash....from my experience....

110yd

I concur, they are swf players by using a particular search engine of your choice

Sure, but why do you all think there would be swf files on a memory card that's been used in a camera? The main reason is because recovery software puts the wrong extension onto the file, which is why I suggested renaming it to the extension of the expected files - jpeg or cr2.

Definitely. This happened to me a few years back. Drive crashed, recovery software renamed all files to filexxxx.txt. To find all my images, I registered Photoshop to open .txt files, then opened each and saved as to a new file name, about 800 times. Both CR2 and jpegs.

I have since implemented a much more rigorous back up routine.

Thanks for the responses, will give your suggestions a go.... Guess the thing to note here is, dont buy fake cards from ebay and get slammed later on...