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robirdman

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My computer had stopped booting to Windows, as described in another post.  After getting it back and reinstalling programs, I discovered a problem involving Nikon D4 camera images.  I had gone on a trip last summer and shot a lot of pictures of Puffins, other birds, animals scenics etc.  I had since edited everything, made tiffs of many and put up galleries. 

 

Yesterday, I discovered that an image displayed in Photoshop Bridge CS6 was only and icon with no metadata.  On further searching of different species folders, I discovered more and more such images, and all were from this trip.  They were all .NEF raw files or .mov files, while tiffs were OK. A search of the whole external drive (6T Lacie) for NEFs and MOVs without metadata turned up 1029 such icons in the Bridge.  Attempts to view in a Nikon program had the same result.  then I noticed that all had a date of 8/3/2015, which couldn't be right because I knew they were taken on lots of different days. 

 

On looking in a journal I had noted that this was the day I had returned from my extended trip and connect the drive to the PC.  (On the trip I had taken the drive from the PC and rough edited and made deletions on my laptop.  There was a note about the drives not appearing and seeming to backup.  But I subsequently had no problems and edited and made galleries as I said.

 

I then found that a mirror backup had the Puffin folder and others with intact images with metadata, so I tried to replace those on the archive, but it said I didn't have permission.  I thought I could delete one and then copy to replace instead, but it wouldn't delete.  So then I went to permissions and changed several names that were not full permission, to full.  (I am the only user, but there were names such as administrator, 1 user, and I wasn't sure which.  On doing so, I could see the NEF icons  in the open Bridge Window returnto thumbs, and metadata coming back, though MOV remained unchanged, but could now open in Windows Media. I did this with a number of species in subfolders of Birds, and then I tried some other major folders.

 

I went to Animals folder and opened one of fish, where I had taken a lot of shots.    Almost all appeared OK.  And then, before my eyes, they all changed to icons without metadata.  I was able to restore by going to permissions and adding full back in.

 

But what is going on here?  I am the sole user.  I had the computer become unable to get to Windows and that problem was taken care of, but now images that were OK and were during a trip have or are reverting to dataless icons necessitating permission adjustment which I don't know much about and never applied.

 

Also if I attach the drive to my laptop, which didn't have the period of non-functionability, the same is true.  Those NEFs I enabled permission on are restored, and if I enable full of another folder here, that becomes OK on the PC. 


Edited by robirdman, 01 April 2016 - 09:16 AM.

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