Any advice on data recovery from a compact flash card used in a Nikon digicam? I have a 512MB and a 1GB CF cards (Sandisk) and they used to both work fine with my Dell laptop and a radioshack cardreader. But I recently got a MacBook Pro, and twice now something has gone horribly wrong when I tried to download pics to the Mac.

Stuck the filled card in the USB reader, stuck that into the Mac, a work-built-in virus scan started, and iPhoto didn't see the card. Looking into the card with Finder shows no files in the DCIM folder. Fargh. It's just vacation pictures, but still.

The 1GB card works fine, but I now twice lost access to whatever pictures I took on the 512MB card. Even worse, after this last time, a "get info" on the card shows pretty much all 512MB supposedly free.

Should I just go to a data recovery place, like DataTech Lab? They claim $75-100 if data is recovered, otherwise free.

Hey, lori!

I don't have any helpful advice, because a similar thing happened to me, but I just eventually gave up on the card and the photos contained therein.

If it's free if they can't do anything, I'd probably go for the lab.

That reminds me. I had such a hard time looking at your Manzanar pictures that I had to stop, back when you'd posted them. I've meant to go back and look at them later; I should do that.

Hey Liese!

Thanks for commiserating! Sorry about the Manzanar pictures being a tough time. It was pretty intense to be there.

Gris,

my fave greasemonkey scripts are gmail ones:

1) auto-bcc 2) saved searches 3) spamcount hide

There is also a cool one for amazon.com:

amazon super saver snooper

Yeah, I bet it was. I would like to go someday, myself, but I'd need to not do it alone.

Years ago, when he was first working on the Navajo reservation, the SO and a buddy of his went out driving looking for...Leupp, I guess. They never found it, although they talked to some of the elderlies in the area that remembered it.

Anyway, no apologies necessary, I was glad to see the pics, just hard to handle!

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My IBM InfoPrint20 won't print envelopes. It errs out, saying it's got a paper jam. I thought it was just a problem with the aux tray, but I bought an envelope specific cartridge & tray for it, and it has the same problem. Gah. Guess I should have bought a maintenance contract, huh?

Does anyone know how to make Greasemonkey do that thing were you can just click a button on your toolbar and make other people's LJ formats readable like yours?

Ha! I have a G3 Powerbook with a dead HD.

hmmm...

Does anyone know how to make Greasemonkey do that thing were you can just click a button on your toolbar and make other people's LJ formats readable like yours?

Suela, I don't know about a button on your toolbar, but I've used this one in the past and liked it enough: [link] The only problem I had with it was that it seemed to require you to load the LJ page in question, and then it would re-load it in your style, which I found frustrating. But I haven't used it in awhile, and that may have changed.

Thanks for the advice, SA. I think Home Shopping Network is like monkey crack or something, making me want to buy things!

lori, I lost some photos once quite awhile ago and used a program to recover them quite successfully, but unfortunately I don't remember what it was. The one I used was some command line freeware I think. Anyhow a Google search turns up a lot of choices.

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I imagine that a lot of them have free trials so you can see if it works before buying one to have handy or maybe there will be a free one you can use.