Re: [PRODIG] RAW files corrupted during Firewire transfer

[david purdie]

I have had problems of possibly a similar nature downloading files from 
1Ds. When loading RAW files into iview, and allowing iView to add a 
profile for the camera, it corrupts the RAW files which then become 
small TIFFs. Photoshop no longer sees them as RAW and fails to  launch 
Camera Raw, and the file size goes down to 2-3Mbs. Could it be that 
your problem is related, and to do with assigning profiles? This is on 
G4, OSX 10.2.4.

David Purdie

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On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 07:59  pm, Richard Lewisohn wrote:

I am using a Canon 1Ds and transferring the RAW files from 1GB 
microdrives
to a Mac G4 OSX 10.2.3 using a Microtech firewire card reader.

Once every few hundred files one of the RAW files, when opened, is 
corrupted
(normally half the image is missing or looks like it has been put 
through a
channel mixer gone haywire.

When I transfer the image again from the microdrive, it is fine.  So 
there
is something happening during the transfer process (and I'm not doing 
any
other work on the computer while the files are transferring).

This makes me somewhat anxious, as I normally only look at the RAW 
files
based on clients' selection from contact sheets made from small JPEGS 
shot
at the same time as the RAW files.  By this time, of course, the 
microdrives
have been wiped.

So far, I've been lucky, but disaster is bound to strike.

Does anyone have any experience of this, or any thoughts as to a 
solution?

Many thanks.

Richard Lewisohn


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