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Time for a Hazel's Picture Gallery Recovery update... We have 73% of the thumbnails restored, and 41% of the large viewing-size images.

I made a big sweep through the Wayback Machine, and Matthew Randolph has been scouring archive.org as well and other places with archived images and thumbnails. I've been uploading images from the data recovery discs from the dead disk drive and seeing if they're ready to use, or if the "$C000" fix makes them snap back into shape. So a lot of progress has been made.

If you've ever grabbed images (from 2005 or earlier) from my website, even if they're just the thumbnails or the medium-size images, I could really use getting copies of those back if they're not already back in place. And I could use a little help with some of the work from people with some specialized knowledge, please (see below). If you know the people who attend the Grilled Cheese Invitationals, or if you know how to edit raw JPEG data, here's your chance to help out a little.

A number of JPEG images appear to be corrupted, but might snap back into place if you can figure out what happened to the raw data. (On some of them, there was garbage inserted exactly $C000 bytes from the beginning of the file, and deleting that 16K byte chunk cured them. I tried that on these, and that didn't work them.) You can find these troublesome corrupted JPEG files at:
http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/Recovery/jpgfiles/export-08-need-help-fixing-corrupted-files/ (6 subdirectories), and a few more at
http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/Recovery/jpgfiles/export-08-ok/00-cheese-bad/
http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/Recovery/jpgfiles/export-08-ok/01-cheese-bad/
http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/Recovery/jpgfiles/export-08-ok/29-vegas-bad/

So that's what a technically-inclined person might be able to fiddle with. Now, for people who know the Gigsville/Theorylabs crowd:

These 18 images are all from the 2005 Grilled Cheese Invitational. If you can tell me who's in the photos, I've got a good chance of matching them up to where they belong on Hazel's Picture Gallery, because a good portion of my pages for 2nd 2nd Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational (19-Mar-2005) part 1 through part 30 have captions that people have provided to me in the past.

Bonus credit: I believe all of these JPEG files have some hidden corruption in them. If there's any way to extract the original EXIF data -- if it's still there somewhere -- we could match these photos up easily using the camera's timestamp recorded therein.

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