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Yesterday was an adventure. A friend of ours turned 60 and he and some other friends planned a mystery day for a group of us (12 total). It entailed arriving at his house at 8AM sharp and planning not to be back until 9PM.

Well we got there and the mystery was a quick flight to New Orleans, champagne and caviar in a private courtyard in the French Quarter, Brunch at Brennan’s, and general shop browsing and stuff for the remainder of the day until a 7:40 flight back.

Great fun was had by all and a hearty thanks to Paul, Deb & Les for pulling this off.

Dawn ended up getting a nice imported paper-mache Mardi Gras mask of a cat with sheet music integrated into it. Here’s a pic:

Pictures. Everyone knows I am a photo buff and take my camera almost everywhere. So needless to say I had it with me. Well I took about 100 shots through brunch, then changed the memory card before we left the restaurant to have a fresh card for more pics. Took another 40 or so afterwards and during the trip home. (It was a fast paced day else I would have had about 300 or so for the day). Most of the pics were celebratory ones of friends and groups.
Well this morning I put the cards into a card reader and started to copy them. Card #2, which was still in the camera, copied okay.
I put in card #1 (which has the best shots), and Horror! It’s not finding any pictures! Not to be too alarmed, since sometimes this happens, but it can usually be remedied with a quick view in the camera. So I put it back in the camera to use it’s built in image browser, but it’s also seeing no images.

Well I try an Image Recovery program I have on it. It’s a bit cumbersome as it entail manually renaming each image it finds, and it found over 60 on the card (a sigh of releief). So I recover the first one and then look at it: It’s okay. So I beging the long process of receovering the other 60+ files. After I finish I go through to view them. First one again, okay. Second one: Header error, unreadable. Damn, well let’s keep going, Third, Unreadable, etc etc etc. No luck, Damn.

So I try a second Image Recovery program I had heard about (ZA Digital Image Recovery). It’s a much slower program to work, but requires minimal input (it renames recovered files itself). I let it work and it recovers 97 files in about 15 minutes. Now the test - are they really there to view. I go through and 96 out of 97 are there! Yippee!

SO I reccomend ZA DIR to anyone that may need it, and it’s Freeware!