I downloaded my pictures using rapid photo downloader and I changed the file name. Have done this many times before never had an issue. This time i must have done something wrong because all my .nef files are converted to something that is completely unreadable by anything. I have tried darktable, raw therapee, lightroom, gimp, and photoshop. In gimp they show up as very small thumbnails which are extremely pixelated. The worst thing is i moved the files instead of copying them so these are my only copies right now. I just feel like a complete idiot right now. I was wondering if there is ANY way to recover these files.Thank you all in advance.
Have you:
- Opened a terminal and done
file <filename> - Changed the file extension back to
.nef
Can you post one of the files?
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Thanks man. That solved the issue! Haha. I feel pretty dumb that it was such a simple fix. I renamed all the files to .nef and it did the trick. I just freaked out because it was pictures for a client. Thank you again for the help. Hopefully this can help someone in the future.
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You’re welcome; we all make mistakes! Please pay it forward 
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@patdavid I re-ping my pong in your direction: could we have a Software sub-category for every program whose developers frequent these forums so that the general Software category is not trashed with program-specific bug reports and user support? In this case, RPD.
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A good argument could be made it’s not your fault. Probably I should never have written Rapid Photo Downloader such that renaming files without a file extension was possible. It’s not possible in the latest code:
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I’ll get RPD added shortly. I suppose we should also bump @damonlynch to a mod? 
You’re welcome; we all make mistakes! Please pay it forward
I will definitely try my best. This is honestly a great community! And I love being a part of it.
A good argument could be made it’s not your fault. Probably I should never have written Rapid Photo Downloader such that renaming files without a file extension was possible. It’s not possible in the latest code:
Thanks for trying to make me feel better. Yeah I changed it to file name and I did not notice the extension was not in the file name. I just assumed the extension would be retained. To my surprise it was not. I really like Rapid photo downloader. It makes renaming files a breeze. Love incorporating it in my workflow. Makes it much easier to organize my photos. But if this can be fixed that would make it even better. Because I am probably not the only one that has run into this. The solution was easy enough I used Thunar to add the extension and I was good to go after I collected myself…haha
Thank you all again for the help!!!
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