A little detail would be useful, such as what OS you are using and what error you are seeing when you try to import them.

Also, you should check to make sure you actually are running LR 4.1.  It's not hard to run an older version and not know it.

So what do we do with these corrupted files that came from Nikon Transfer????????
I'm running Mac OS 10.6.8 and using LR4.1 and I have a D800 that I shot a lot of files with tonight.  Now that I've imported the files with Nikon Transfer LR4.1 will not open them.  What do I do???

Nikon Transfer also DELETES ORIGINAL FILES AFTER TRANSFER, which is what most people do.

I don't even know how to shout on the internet, so not sure what you're saying.

I have tried to find a free image rescue program for mac, but can't find anything.  I feel like Nikon has royally screwed me.  How can they have a software that knowingly damages files?

Can you use something like ViewNX to strip any metadata from the NEFs, then try to import? That's only a guess based on http://geekswithblogs.net/felipe/archive/2010/07/12/140879.aspx (no idea if it's reliable).

Are you downloading straight from camera to computer?

Try using a card reader.

But before that, go to Preferences > File Handling > Camera Raw Cache Settings and purge the cache - see if that fixes it.

ssprengel wrote:

 

If you are using Nikon Transfer, that is probably what is wrong.  According to what Nikon support has told other contributors to Adobe forums, Nikon Transfer is an obsolete program that corrupts the newer Nikon raw files so that Adobe programs cannot recognize them.

Nikon Transfer is an obsolete standalone utility, but Nikon Transfer2 is an integral part of Nikon ViewNX2 and is accessed from within Nikon ViewNX2. I use it all the time and it transfers my D800 files without any problems in LR4.1. So download the latest version of ViewNX2 and use the Transfer module within it. It is presumably updated each time ViewNX2 is, to work with the latest nefs.  You can of course set up a shortcut to go straight to NktTransfer2.exe in the ViewNX2 32bit program folder, but it is hardly worth the effort.

Bob Frost

Nikon has confirmed that if you use old versions of ViewNX or Transfer that do not support the nef files from your camera, you will get corruption -

https://nikoneurope-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/53027

Bob Frost

From: "martin-s

Why do you want to use a separate utility for that when LR can do it just

as well?

I use nikon transfer2 as well, because I used to use Nikon View/capture

before LR was invented, LR import and card reading used to be very flaky,

Transfer2 adds my AdobeRGB profile to the nef, adds whatever metadata I set

up (copyright, location, etc, etc), renames, etc, etc., all while

transferring the files without any problems.

I also use PhotoMechanic for keywording my nefs; LR won't do that.

Just because LR tries to do everything, it doesn't mean it is good at

everything.

Bob Frost

Because as I said in my post above, Transfer2 does other useful things apart from just transferring the nefs.

Bob Frost

"Transfer2 adds my AdobeRGB profile to the nef, adds whatever metadata I set

up (copyright, location, etc, etc), renames, etc, etc., all while

transferring the files without any problems."

 

I have never encountered problems with performing the tasks you mention in LR.

On a side note, RAW files are not confined to a colour space so you can't arbitrarily add a profile to them. They are only rendered within a colour space when exported to another format.

"I also use PhotoMechanic for keywording my nefs; LR won't do that."

I'm not sure what you mean by that, LR does keywording just fine.

martin-s wrote:

"I also use PhotoMechanic for keywording my nefs; LR won't do that."

 

I'm not sure what you mean by that, LR does keywording just fine.

LR does NOT add keywords to the nef files, only to the catalog (and xmps). PhotoMechanic (and Nikon's CaptureNX2) do store the keywords in the nef files, so they are available for all future programs.