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Rotate image wrote blank image (0 byte) over original

Asked by dr_juno

I rotated the image to the right. It looked good. When I clicked on another image, I was warned that if I didn't save the image my changes would be lost. So I selected to save it and clicked ok when asked to change the name (didn't need to change the name) and was warned "this will overwrite" but I thought it was rotated and that was what I wanted so I clicked ok and the resulting image was blank. Registers as 0 bytes. Broken-image icon and everything.

I want to save the image that was destroyed. Is there a cache? Temp anything? It's likely lost, but my computer won't be rebooted until I hear from someone.

Either way I hope it doesn't happen to anyone else.

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Best Alessandro Pellegrini (alessandro-pellegrini) said : 		#1

Sorry to say that there is no cache and no way to recover that image :(
When gthumb talked you about "overwriting", he was serious :(

Anyway that is strange, because I have used many many times that function... :s

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dr_juno (doctorjuno) said : 		#2

Thanks for the prompt reply! I'll be more careful.

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Martijn Kaandorp (m.a.j.w.kaandorp) said : 		#3

This happened to me too, with me through a samba connection on a NTFS network drive.
Tried it on a local EXT3 partition and it worked fine. Lost four photo's though...bummer..

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Martijn Kaandorp (m.a.j.w.kaandorp) said : 		#4

Oh....i forgot to mention that i use Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty.

It also works on a local NTFS partition.

It seems that the problem in my case only occurs when rotating (image view Konqueror) through over samba connection (NTFS drive).