All God's children need travelling shoes. Drive your problems from here. All good people read good

[hazelchaz]

Photos from LASFS/Solley's Part 119 (Jun-2001) through LASFS Part 122: Portrait Night (21-Jun-2001) have been almost completely recovered. Click on the picture of John De Chancie and nitroace to see them.

The photos we recovered didn't quite drop neatly into consecutive order on the pages, so I'm not really sure where these photos shown below go. Two of them might be Greg Kadoulian and Tony Young, I don't know them by sight - do you?

<- This is Greg <- This is Tony
Do you know any of these people?

Encouraging news on photo recovery efforts

testerscot, johno, and bovil have worked out a technique to rescue JPEG files that were corrupted in the data recovery process. It turns out it's not the fault of the failing disk drive -- it looks like "Encase" put some crap in the middle of the file, that can be easily removed. See this post and scroll down for some technical details if you're interested.

Here are my records of who's working on which directories.

Assigned to johno:
jpg-08-10-lasfs (fixed)
"bad" jpg-08-10 (fixed)

Assigned to testerscot
export-08-bad\jpg-08-02 (Fixed)
export-08-bad\jpg-08-03 (Fixed)
jpg-08-11-lasfs (fixed)
"bad" jpg-08-11 (fixed)
jpg-08-13-lasfs (fixed)
"bad" jpg-08-13 (fixed)
jpg-08-14-lasfs (fixed)
jpg-08-15-lasfs (fixed)
jpg-08-16-lasfs (fixed)
jpg-08-17-2001baycon (fixed)
jpg-08-18-2001baycon (fixed)
jpg-08-19-2001baycon (fixed)
jpg-08-24-lasfs (fixed)
jpg-08-26-lasfs (fixed)
jpg-08-31-lasfs (fixed)

Currently bovil is looking at, or has looked at these:
jpg-08-20-scifi (has fixed some of them)
jpg-08-20-lasfs
jpg-08-20-anawed
jpg-08-20-bovil

Assigned to toaddashi, if he wants to work on them:
jpg-08-12-lasfs

Assigned to darrelx, assuming he wants to work on them:
jpg-08-09-lasfs

There's much more work to be done -- if you'd like to take a look at some of the other directories, I can assign one or two to you...

Comments

All good people read good

[selinawoman.livejournal.com]

You are one of the gooderest people's I know.
Love,
Selina

[dspisak.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a perl script could fix the "lost" photos.

Perl script

[hazelchaz]

It's certainly worth a try. I whipped up a quick script, it outputs the jpg to a new file (just in case it's not the cure-all we think it will be).

And so far on the one batch I tried it, it's working great...

Chaz

Re: All good people read good

[hazelchaz]

The song "Twist in my Sobriety" begins

All God's children need travelling shoes
Drive your problems from here
All good people read good books
Now your conscience is clear

I'd heard the original version before; then when listening to Coverville I heard the cover version by Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys.

Chaz

People I know

[nitroace.livejournal.com]

Ok, the first guy is Greg Kadulian (SP?) Liz may know the spelling. He's also known and "Conspiracy Greg", but that's another story and I'm sure not they way he wants to be labeled. The third guy in is Tony Young.

Re: People I know

[hazelchaz]

Thank you, Cathy!

Chaz

Re: People I know

[rebecca817.livejournal.com]

Greg was a 'friend' of my ex. Only they knew him as Greg Qualudian.

[ashi.livejournal.com]

Did a few so far. I thought you might want to look them over before I do more. Part of the image tends to look darker, and I've done some correction for this, as well as a little blending right where noticable lines between sections show up.

I used Gimp 2.0 for Windows.

http://anysize.org/~ashi/toddashi-boston-baden.zip

Picture recovery

[hazelchaz]

Thanks, I'll take a look at them when I get to the office.

Did you see the comments about splicing out a string of 00's and other bad data using a data editor, by the way?

Hold on there

[hazelchaz]

It looks like there's another approach that's working on these. Hold off on doing more from this batch, please.

Chaz

Re: Hold on there

[ashi.livejournal.com]

Ah, that sounds better!

Re: Hold on there

[hazelchaz]

Take a fresh look at http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/Recovery/jpgfiles/export-08-ok/jpg-08-12-lasfs/. I've run my correction program on most of the images and you can see the results I've come up with.

Chaz

Re: Hold on there

[ashi.livejournal.com]

When I was fitting puzzle pieces together, I'd wind up not quite matching up on the bottom and cropping it. I can tell by looking at a picture of Tadao that the whole picture is there! Much better.

Fixed Files

[testerscot.livejournal.com]

Latest updates...

http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/00005b1h
contains fixes for export-08-bad\jpg-08-10

I've got all my allocated stuff fixed - along with the extra stuff you had allocated to johno - I just need to get it uploaded (which I'll do this afternoon/evening.

Re: Fixed Files

[testerscot.livejournal.com]

export-08-ok\jpg-08-15-2001baycon is at
http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/00006rqz

export-08-ok\jpg-08-15-lasfs is at
http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/00007d5q

export-08-ok\jpg-08-16-lasfs is at
http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/00008qfb

export-08-ok\jpg-08-17-2001baycon is at
http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/00009p17

and

export-08-ok\jpg-08-18-2001baycon is at
http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/0000ap8g

more to come later

Re: Fixed Files

[hazelchaz]

Thanks, testerscot. When you get done with those, here are some that the "C000" fix didn't clear up...

1. jpg-08-00/
   
2. jpg-08-01/
   
3. jpg-08-02/
   
4. jpg-08-03/
   
5. jpg-08-05/
   
6. jpg-08-06/
   
7. jpg-08-07/
   
8. jpg-08-08/
   

Re: Fixed Files

[testerscot.livejournal.com]

Updates...

export-08-ok\jpg-08-19-2001baycon http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/0000bwda
export-08-ok\jpg-08-24-lasfs http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/0000cgkz
export-08-ok\jpg-08-26-lasfs http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/0000d9sa
export-08-ok\jpg-08-31-lasfs http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/0000ex9g

most of the files in the following locations are not JPGs; they're file fragments AFAICS. Those I've been able to retrieve have been over 300Kb in size - Them I have uploaded; the frags, I haven't.
export-08-bad\jpg-08-00 - in progress
export-08-bad\jpg-08-01 - all but one done
export-08-bad\jpg-08-02 http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/0000fe5f
export-08-bad\jpg-08-03 http://pics.livejournal.com/testerscot/gallery/0000gg3h
export-08-bad\jpg-08-05 - frags only
export-08-bad\jpg-08-06 - frags only
export-08-bad\jpg-08-07 - frags only
export-08-bad\jpg-08-08 - frags only

Re: Fixed Files

[hazelchaz]

Thank you for the fixes for export-08-bad\jpg-08-10.

Re: Fixed Files

[hazelchaz]

Thank you. I have saved your copies of these files and you don't need to keep them around anymore.

I've copied these to my server:
your fixed versions of jpg-08-15-2001baycon and jpg-08-15-lasfs
Your fixed versions of jpg-08-16-lasfs
Your fixed versions of jpg-08-17-2001baycon
Your fixed versions of jpg-08-21-2001baycon

Re: Fixed Files

[hazelchaz]

Thank you. I have saved your copies of these files and you don't need to keep them around anymore.

I've copied these to my server:
export-08-ok\jpg-08-19-2001baycon
export-08-ok\jpg-08-24-lasfs
export-08-ok\jpg-08-26-lasfs
export-08-ok\jpg-08-31-lasfs

and

export-08-bad\jpg-08-02
export-08-bad\jpg-08-03

Re: Fixed Files

[hazelchaz]

That last one was "18-2001-baycon", not 21...

Chaz