Thank you hborre, will give the loader a go.

Thank you Vaskania. I did open the CR2 in notepad++ and saw it's exactly as you said (though I'll check again for the carriage returns). I want to say the python script may have said the same, I'll give it a check again. Much appreciated for everyone's help! Thanks again!

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