Recovery

[miserableoldgit]

Had this e-mailed to me recently. Anybody tried it?:-

 

It's happened to the best of us.

Deleting photos from a digital camera by accident

If you've had a momentary lapse of eye-hand coordination when faced with a "Delete All" message or

you simply have sausage fingers, chances are you or someone you know has accidentally deleted precious

photos from a camera's memory card.

Relax. The chances are good that you can recover those files, as long as you haven't taken any more photos

or written anything else to the card.

The simple delete command on most cameras just marks the space on a memory card as being available

for use rather than overwriting the actual space on the card. As long as you don't record anything

new onto the card, previously deleted photos should be relatively easy to recover using a file

recovery utility. The same goes for memory sticks.

An online search turned up a file-recovery utility, and it's free.

It works for typical accidentally deleted files (i.e., those that are just due to user error,

rather than disk corruption issues and the like)

It's called 'Pandora Recovery'

All of you computer buffs are saying "yeah we know" but for us mere mortals here's the link.

http://www.pandorarecovery.com/download/

[thesaint sfc]

Use http://www.recuva.com

 

Easy interface and very efficient.

[Al de Man]

Yeah, we know. Seriously though, there must be thousands of undelete utilities out there and this is the very reason why you shouldn't be too bothered if you're told to delete your pictures at a gig or match. Even an in-camera format shouldn't permanently delete them.

 

"Undelete" was a command in MS-DOS 5.0 in the days before Windows was widespread.