Lapis,
While I'm waiting for the password to arrive, maybe you can help me. I screwed up my company picnic photos. All I have left of them are .chk files. They are Recovered File Fragments. I suppose they are ruined. I deleted all the photos and the thumbs.db file before I took the pictures. Although the old pictures were still showing in the camera. I had to delete a lot of them because the card would file up. When I brought them home and tried to read them, they were gone. A found folder containing the .chk files were the only thing left. :(