 Michael Lynch |
Retrieving Lost Images If you accidentally deleted - in-camera - is there any way to retrieve the photos? I pulled the SD card and will not reformat it until I'm certain everything is lost forever. Anyone ever heard of a retrieval program for such a blunder? Thanks.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Michael, Go Online - search for "Photo recovery software". I have a couple of disks from Sandisk for photo recovery - they often are included in packages of their CF/SD cards. Good luck, and hope you save your photos.
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Michael Lynch |
Thanks, Carlton. Found several and after I'm done crying in my beer and sober up tomorrow, I'll pick a good one and let you know the outcome. I truely hope I owe you a beer when all is said and done!
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Janet Dietz |
This just happened to me on a Colorado trip and thought I had lost all. My sister emailed me the link: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ and I tried it. It found images back for three days that had been reformatted three or four times. I was amazed. It was a quick download and easy to use. Good luck, I know the feeling.
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Bill Boswell |
I've use Recuva from http://www.recuva.com/ with great success. It is free and from the people who make the widely respected ccleaner program.
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Michael Lynch |
Thanks, all. I should've posted here instead of thanking Carlton in a personal email. I'm pretty computer challenged and tried a few downloads. All of a sudden I hit one that pulled-up 137 photos I'd lost plus a whole bunch more all the way back to January this year. I reformat alot, too. I was so happy when I saw those valuable shots, I thought I'd lost forever, I'd have paid a grand to getum back. Cost: $39; something called Phoenix Stellar. I can't complain !
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Thank you for the e-mail Michael and I am so happy you got your images back. I have lost images 3 different times over the years so I know how painful it can be. The last time I lost images (back in 2006), I had downloaded my CF card onto my laptop and cleared the card and then the hard drive in my laptop failed and I hadn't backed them up to another drive or burned a disk. This was just laziness on my part but I now download to 2 separate drives & burn a DVD of the raw files as well. Thats another reason I use the 4GB sized cards - they fit perfectly on a DVD. It is just part of shooting digitally. One more thing I would like to mention is be very deliberate about making sure your camera power is OFF when inserting or removing a card as I have fried a CF card this way and that is something a rescue program cannot recover. Cheers, Carlton
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Michael Lynch |
Carlton, thanks again. I do pretty much the same as you, using DVDs and an external hard drive. Haven't gotten in the habit, yet of burning my RAWs to DVD on a daily basis but, I should. I pull the RAWs off my PC monthly with the ext. drive and just use DVDs if I need to bring up the RAWs again. You just gave me an idea, though. Take the 4GB memory stick on my keychain and copy RAWs daily to take home and put on the wife's PC and ext.drive for when my PC crashes! A sneak preview of why I was going insane over those deleted photos: http://www.mikesryukyugallery.com/-/mikesryukyugallery/article.php?ID=4288 All the night shots were lost on an event that only happens, once every 2 years! I'm never deleting in-camera again; not even the obvious ones.
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Jarrah |
I use a program called ZAR - Zero Auumption Recovery. The section of the program for photo recovery is free, and off my Epsom P2000 storage device it recovered over 12000 images, covering the past 12 months! I bought the whole program since I was so impressed, so if I ever need to recover a hard drive I have the tools. And it was only US$33.
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Michael Lynch |
Jarrah, wow! Sounds like one awesome program. If the Super Glue I put on the Delete Buttons of both my cameras ever fails and I have another major disaster, I'll be looking ZAR up. Great info; I'll pass it on to all my friends. Thanks !
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Chris Ebben |
Hi, I have Media Recover ((manac.com.au) was only about $25 when I bought it & it does Photos, Audio & Video. Well worth the outlay. Gets you over that sickening feeling pretty quick. A friend deleted his whole 50th anniversary album, the program helped him make to the 51st =^..^=
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