Has this ever happend to you? (Destroyed raw file).

This is what happend to one of my raw photos after I moved it from external harddrive to my computer, together with a few hunderd other photos. It was fine before I moved it, but now it looks like this.. Has this ever happend to you?

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/png'

Yes. Few images were damaged in a similar way when I upgraded hdd. I checked hdd for bad sectors etc. but found nothing. My guess is that external hard disk enclosure is the culprit.

Guess I am not alone then.

Im gonna have to go through and check ALL of my backup raw files now.

Where is the cry emoticon when u need it?

I've had this happen before too - seems like the file was corrupted in the transfer process between harddrives. Fortunately, the shot wasn't a winner, so it didn't bother me too much and I didn't look into trying and fixing it.

I lost some wild-life photos when I attempted to transfer using a 'cheap' card-reader. Every image on the card was trashed - couldn't even read the files when I put the card back in the camera. Card-reader went in the garbage.

It can be a faulty drive, card reader, cable, RAM, or really anything. It's a tricky one to work out too.

Have you tried to open it in a different program? I had this happen to a file in LR but when I opened it using a different program it was fine.

During image ingestion using IIP, the software copies the imported images to two different locations with an integrity check on both places. One destination is where we work with, the other is purely for backup purposes (usually external HD). This should avoid these kind of problems. I know this info is after the fact, but still good info to know.