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George B.
Username: gberonio

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Posted on Monday, Feb 15, 2010 - 8:01:   

I've got an old Olympus C-3030 that uses SmartMedia cards.
In this case I was using a 128Mb card.
I use my networked HP printer as a card reader, since it's one of the few devices that has a Smart Media slot.
I usually copy them off the card (over the network) onto my laptop before doing any manipulation.
In this latest case, I forgot. When viewing images on the card using Windows XP, I hit the 'rotate' button to flip the native landscape format to portrait format in a few instances.
I don't remember resaving the files, but apparently Windows does that automatically ... now I appear to have data overwritten onto the same file, which produces a completely garbled image.
Can anyone think of a way to 'undo' the damage?
Many thanks.

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