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    Restore Scrap files to .jpg

    In transferring around 12 jpg files from a 1Gb compact flash disk to my hard drive via the PC's card reader, I inadvertantly cut instead of copied these files. The paste to the hard drive appeared as a 12Mb scrap file which I am unfamiliar with. Assuming the files were still on the clipboard I pasted back to their location on the Compact Flash, -same result -another @#$! scrap file.
    So far I have been unable to find meaningful discussion on recovery or restore or conversion of this scrap file back to the original jpg format.

    As a last resort I used DataDoctor recovery tool to recover the deleted/cut files from the flash disk however I could only get a partial recover as I suspect that in pasting the files back to their original location on the flash disk may have overwritten the original jpg files.

    I assume the original jpg data is still embedded in the scrap file and any info on how to extract/convert/restore these jpg files would be greatly appreciated...

    #2
    This question has nothing to do with IrfanView, so I moved it to the off-topic forum. I hope someone else can help you, but you might have more chance of success on a general PC help site like PC Advisor where there are 100,000 + members.
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      #3
      Thanks for the advice -Irfanview is my preferred graphics app. and gives me the message "Can't read file Header !" when I try to open some of the recovered deleted files... Ditto the scrap file...

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        #4
        Digital Image Recovery

        Did you try the program "Digital Image Recovery"?
        (Here you can download this tool as a zip file!)


        regards
        Frank

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          #5
          You might try a hex editor. Once you have learned to identify the beginning and ending of a typical JPG file, it is possible to copy one out of a nest of other code and paste it into a new hex editor window and save as jpg. Great fun if you enjoy little challenges.

          Very bad idea to paste back, yes you overwrote the original deleted files
          Its: Belongs to "It"
          It's: Shortened form of "It is"
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          Lose: Fail to keep
          Loose: Not tight

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          Plurals do not require apostrophes

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