My condolences on the massive loss — all of us do that at least once. I hope you had everything backed up and the RAW files were on a CD somewhere…
As to the cause — could you post some details of your system configuration, please? It almost sounds like a virus, so I am curious about what virus protection you’re using too.
Ciao,
Art
Also note that there is a Bridge forum where you can get more direct help from the Bridge team.
Vittorio-
Ouch.
I had a similar, although less dramatic, problem recently (with CS2 on WindowsXP). CS2 and Bridge was open on the computer overnight. (A virus scan and spyware program ran overnight, but I don’t know if that would have done anything.) In the morning, several folders were somehow unreadable. When I clicked on these folders from within Bridge and in windows explorer, I got some kind of OS message like "disk needs to be formatted, do you want to format?" NO! Some folders were OK, others weren’t.
I was able to rescue the files, using a utility called File Scavenger3.0, from quetek.com. It was able to recover all the image files. I then copied them to an external disk, and reformatted the one that was acting weird (it was a non-system internal disk). It has been working fine ever since, although I’ve become even more compulsive about back-ups. I make 2 copies right away, one onto an external hard disk, and another onto DVD. I re-archive if I do a lot of post-processing.
Anyway, good luck.
Regards,
Allen
Allen – I don’t know how Bridge could cause that, becuase what you describe is disk corruption. Most likely there is an existing problem with the disk and Bridge just made it visible when reading and writing a lot of files.
Yes, Chris, I agree with that. I think that Bridge was probably an innocent bystander.
I was hoping my experience could assist Vittorio.
Regards,
Allen