I'm finding the description of your problem hard to follow.
I think what you said is that you copy an image's file name from your
website and paste that file name into the windows file search dialog
box. Then despite a clearly valid file name the file is not found.
According to the file name description in the E-510 user's manual the
first character of the name is either "P" or "_" (indicating color
space), then one character for month (1, 2, 3... A, B C), two digits for
day of month and 4 digits for a sequential image number which wraps back
to 0001 after 9999.
Since you know what subfolders are used for the E-510 and since the
files have a date ordering implicit in their structure it should be easy
to locate the folder that *should* contain the missing file by
displaying folder file contents in ascending name order. If not found
then the next question is where are the files that immediately preceded
and followed this one. If those files exist or at least exist in most
cases then it would appear that you have somehow explicitly deleted the
missing files. If many of the files that should surround the missing
file are also missing then something more sinister is to be suspected.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/4/2011 6:30 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Not really wanting advice; I'll have to figure it out for myself
>
> But I'm really puzzled as to where and/or how some of my digital images
> have vanished from my computer.
> I know they were there 18 months ago, and I do have copies of some of
> them where I saved them in directories for convenient CD copy.
>
> I have a directory for each digital camera.
>
> For every card load from each digital camera I create a fresh subdirectory,
> and download the images from the full card into it. So, the E-1, for example,
> now has about 76 subdirectories. Numbered from D-1 to D-76.
>
> Some from Feb 2009 have vanished.
>
> I do sometimes make mistakes, but normally I become aware of them pretty
> soon. I wondered if cameras use the same image number/name for new
> images taken soon after the first use of that number; but if that were the
> case, I'd be finding a different image with the same number.
>
> I have searched on my XP computer using the windows explorer search
> function.
>
> This discovery came about as I prepare to freshly re-size thumbnails and
> images for my "commercial" website.
>
> I decided to create a directory of "originals" with subdirectories matching
> those of the web-site, and place copies of the originals in this "originals'
> directory. It is easy to search for the originals, since I have used the
> camera
> number as the first part of the web-image name. Using the Windows
> Explorer "rename" function I highlight the file name and copy the relevant
> portion of the name and enter it into the search box. Easy.
>
> Then I discovered that some images (mainly E-510 images) can not be
> found.
>
> Puzzling. Has any of you made this kind of discovery?
>
> Brian Swale.
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