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Digital photos that cannot be opened on the computer

Aug 4, 2005 9:08PM PDT

Hello! I've got a big problem with some hundred vacation photos which I'm unable to open on my computer. I used a Casio QV-R4 with a 1 GB SD card. All the pictures I took (all in all about 300) were perfectly visible on the camera's display and could be thumbed through at will. Back at home I cut them all out and copied them to my computer (Windows XP). To my big surprise only the first half of my photos had a preview displayed, whereas the big rest always showed "no preview possible - in German: keine Vorschau verf

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Feb 19, 2006 10:35AM PST

WEll, I can't help you but I think it is very, very weird that I have the same problem and have the same camera, but did not drop it. And here I was thinking there was a bad section on the CD my pictures were burned onto, because the pictures in front and behind my missing 100 are fine.

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I'm not quite sure what you by you 'cut them out'. In
Feb 19, 2006 10:51AM PST

Windows, you copy the image files from the camera's memory card to the computer's hard drive. If you're getting them from a screen display, you are not getting the actual image which is much higher in resolution than your display.

To recover lost photos, try taking the card to a camera store that offers a recovery service.