Losing my photos

[Hennessy]

Greetings.
I had numerous photos on my PC and decided to move them to a flash drive. Transfer took a while but it got done. I am now having difficulty viewing my photos. A lot seems to have disappeared or unable to be viewed. Prior to the transfer, all were well. Now, when trying to view the photo, I get a notification stating that "we cant open this file". I move a few back to the pc, and I am still unable to view the photos that I could have before the transfer. Any idea how this could be corrected. Thanking you in advance, Hennessy.

[Ajfer03]

How many photos were transferred?  (File Size) Also, how long have you had the flash drive and what is the brand? For me flash drives last about 3 years and I start having problems, but I usually lose them before then. I don't know of any way to recover the missing ones but you could try and open the file on another computer. It's always a good thing to make sure the transfer completed successfully before deleting files off of your pc. Maybe check the recycle bin? Hope everything works out!

[patio]

Are these photo's from a phone perhaps ? ?
If so have you tried usin the phone's software to view/open them ? ?
What file extension is listed on them ? ?

[Mark.]

to get you started on the recovery path if you can't find those photos elsewhere, you could try a program called Recuva to scan the PC with and one called PhotoRec to scan the USB stick with.