urgh PS and Lightroom all of a sudden won't recognize my NEF files!

[WingsOfLovePhoto]

So I got a new MAC....upgraded from an old one.... I redownloaded both CS3 and Lightroom2.... onto the new MAC and they are the same as I used on the old one. Now all of a sudden when I put a CF card in the reader and try to import the pictures BOTH computers say it doesn't recognize the file type. I thought is was the new computer so I put the card reader back to the old one and the same thing happened. I had never had a problem before. I have used this card before... formatted it in the camera (Nikon D3)... Can anyone offer any insight into why this might be happening? I have 2 shoots today and will need to get those pictures into my computer! Thanks in advance for any advice :D

[Andy]

Don't panic. Update your ACR. On a Mac it's as simple as going to CS3 and using "check for updates", or use the Adobe Updater, or go directly here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Macintosh

[WingsOfLovePhoto]

Don't panic. Update your ACR. On a Mac it's as simple as going to CS3 and using "check for updates", or use the Adobe Updater, or go directly here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Macintosh

Thanks Andy but that didn't work. Lightroom says that it is up to date and with photoshop I am getting an error message that Adobe updater quite unexpectedly. This is also affecting my other computer which was working fine... I just don't get it. I am trying a different card for a shoot I am doing in 1/2hour. The card I used last pm I ended up using card rescue to get the pictures back and they were converted in that program automatically to a tiff file for some reason. I can't even open any NEF files that I had opened before...I am befuddled... any other ideas?

[OldGuy]

Thanks Andy but that didn't work. Lightroom says that it is up to date and with photoshop I am getting an error message that Adobe updater quite unexpectedly. This is also affecting my other computer which was working fine... I just don't get it. I am trying a different card for a shoot I am doing in 1/2hour. The card I used last pm I ended up using card rescue to get the pictures back and they were converted in that program automatically to a tiff file for some reason. I can't even open any NEF files that I had opened before...I am befuddled... any other ideas?

I had the same problem with with my D300 and CS3 not reading the NEF files. When I got CS4, it works fine. I think the problem is with the way the D300 writes the NEF files...Maybe?

[arodney]

As at least a temporary fix to get going, try converting to DNG using the free Adobe DNG converter. If that works, I suspect that you've still go some old plug-in floating around.

[ziggy53]

Thanks Andy but that didn't work. Lightroom says that it is up to date and with photoshop I am getting an error message that Adobe updater quite unexpectedly. This is also affecting my other computer which was working fine... I just don't get it. I am trying a different card for a shoot I am doing in 1/2hour. The card I used last pm I ended up using card rescue to get the pictures back and they were converted in that program automatically to a tiff file for some reason. I can't even open any NEF files that I had opened before...I am befuddled... any other ideas?

I suspect that your rescue software added the Tiff suffix because it could no longer read the file names and had to reconstruct the files from their data. Tiff is simply the closest file type it could detect.

I suspect that if you rename the rescued files back to NEF suffix they should work fine.

Copy the files into a computer that can read them and then rename the files. Do not attempt to rename the files on the card. (Most recovery software will have already copied the files onto the computer so those are the files you should rename, on the hard drive.)

[ziggy53]

So I got a new MAC....upgraded from an old one.... I redownloaded both CS3 and Lightroom2.... onto the new MAC and they are the same as I used on the old one. Now all of a sudden when I put a CF card in the reader and try to import the pictures BOTH computers say it doesn't recognize the file type. I thought is was the new computer so I put the card reader back to the old one and the same thing happened. I had never had a problem before. I have used this card before... formatted it in the camera (Nikon D3)... Can anyone offer any insight into why this might be happening? I have 2 shoots today and will need to get those pictures into my computer! Thanks in advance for any advice :D

It sounds like the common denominator may be your card reader. I would try a new reader, especially if the images on the card review OK in the camera.

If a different card reader works OK then you have a problem with the original reader.

[Richard]

I suspect that your rescue software added the Tiff suffix because it could no longer read the file names and had to reconstruct the files from their data. Tiff is simply the closest file type it could detect.

I suspect that if you rename the rescued files back to NEF suffix they should work fine.

Copy the files into a computer that can read them and then rename the files. Do not attempt to rename the files on the card. (Most recovery software will have already copied the files onto the computer so those are the files you should rename, on the hard drive.)

:agree I had the same experience rescuing Canon .CR2 files. The rescue software called it a TIFF, and my raw converter complained, but after I changed the suffix back to .CR2 everything was fine.