My beautiful dancing while wearing a Lycra suit went fine.
More interestingly, I requested my complete set of images on DVD.
They happily complied, and I hobbled my way back to the car and drove home.
I put the disc into the drive, only to discover it is some proprietary format that requires Windows. I don't actually own a Windows computer... I generally avoid proprietary formats and use Linux. This appears to require running a .exe to even view the images.
No, I can't open any of the files. They're not using a standard image format.
I'm going to have to install WINE and hope for the best.
That's terrible. That's absolutely horrible.
I think the person that came up with this idea should be flogged in public, and forced to throw me a parade.
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[–] [deleted] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
[–] i_scream_trucks 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Thats funny, thats my ex-fiancees story as well.
Not the same kind of wine but you get my drift.
[–] heygeorge 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Last I ran into an issue with medical imaging on a disc, I was able to find the raw files with a little patience. Ymmv
Edit: I see you found the raw files. If they are still images they are in a standard format with a stupid ‘proprietary’ extension.
[–] TheBuddha [S] ago
Yeah, I checked every folder. They're organized by date and then some proprietary shit that won't open even with gimp or xnview. I even tried renaming an extension and it was nada. I'll install wine, eventually.
[–] heygeorge 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Lame. They are definitely a standard format with some stupid header appended on them. Stupid ‘secure’ images, lol. I believe when I dealt with this I opened them in a text editor to see what they were, but it was some time ago. Perhaps they’ve built a more convoluted mousetrap.
[–] 16433769? 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
I just threw up. You can try opening the exe with your distro's standard archive program. I remember that would sometimes work in the olden days to access archived files contained inside of a windows executable.
[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
No. It's an exe file and the images are in separate folder in their own format. Some weird five letter extension. The images aren't in the exe. I can see the files, I just can't view the contents. I'll install WINE, eventually.
[–] 16433877? 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I threw up again. Can't open the weird format with gimp? What's the file extension?