I accidentally erased the pictures of my son's baptism today. I am so upset. I ran a program that shows me that they are there...but they want 40 dollars to get retrieve them. I will pay if I have to, but wanted to know if anyone knew of another way that was less expensive?
depends where they are and what format if they are still located on a card and they are jpeg you can download MjM free photo recovery, I have used it before on a couple of occassions with some success http://www.mjm.co.uk/Freephoto_recovery.htm
$40 / £30 sounds about right... had to do this once before when a load of images were lost at work.. although never tried Lee's suggestion so may be worth a try...
As another alternative if the freeware options out there are no good - go local, friends in the IT and such business will likely have the programs - don't be mean though, even if it's mate's rates do pay them something, they'll get this way more often because they become known as "that guy" but imagine everyone you know asking you to shoot all their family events...
@killerjackalope I have considered this and it looks like that will be my final option. All of the software programs I tried are finding 800 pictures but only a few from today!
I can't believe how stupid I am. I have such a problem with erasing the disk constantly.
@cohare [Forgive me if I'm about to be an idiot with what follows.]
Your images are on a physical disk that is your property and in your custody and it may cost you real dollars to retrieve them from your own disk?
I thought you had an external hard drive or is that where they reside?
I download my files directly from the camera to the external hard drive. (Then I "batch" convert them to jpg on my laptop and then upload the jpg files to a free online photo site.) I can retrieve the RAW files from that external hard drive, copying them to my laptop. Alternatively, I can also run the camera software to create a jpg from the RAW file on the external hard drive and put the jpg on my laptop.
The difference I'm trying to clarify or understand is whether you use a "backup" application (that came with the physical drive) and that "backup" app tries to compress (and I wonder how much compression is possible) but the application does so with some proprietary algorithm or encryption so they can extract a fee for recovery from your drive.
Perhaps I am using unnecessary space by not using the "backup procedure" (because it compresses) but I think I'd rather be able to access the files myself rather than extract every last bit of storage from the drive.
The question to ask is [probably] whether I give up $40 worth of disk space by dumping the files directly to the external drive. Given that the 1.5Tb drive was about $130, I don't think I'm giving up 465.5Gb of space by not using a "backup" program.
I realize the horse is out of the barn for this event, Christine, but from this point forward it seems that the better strategy is probably to just copy or download the RAW files to our external drives and not use the manufacturer's backup application.
Does this make sense to anyone else, am I totally wrong, or have I completely misunderstood the situation?
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Thom you are 100% correct. I should upload through a program and save right away. But instead today I viewed them right off of the disk and erased the ones that were bad. I don;t usually do it this way, which is why I forgot to then save them off of the disk and onto the computer. Then when I went to use my camera again I "deleted all" from the disk.
@cohare - Recuva is awesome software. ( http://www.piriform.com/recuva) It's free and it works great. I'd only pay for data recovery if the drive is physically damaged.
get this man a beer! @killerjackalope ! Too true. Funny how if you work in computers and have vast skills or knowledge but people expect a work to be for free. Yet if you ask a mate who's a plumber/sparky to carry out work for mates rates, I would'nt even dream of not paying them! anyway...drifting off the subject there. Glad someone else had noticed.
@cohare For what it's worth, I try to do all my file management on the computer because I prefer to conserve battery power in the camera (even though the battery pack is rechargeable). A little (or more probably!) OCD, I only delete from the camera when I see the jpg, by which time I have 2 copies on different media: RAW file on the external hard drive and corresponding jpg on the laptop [internal] hard drive.
I have a question on this topic: I have my memory card in my computer right now and was downloading (uploading??) to my computer. I am using a new photo editing software and was trying to create a folder for just the ones I took today. It didn't work out right, so I clicked "delete". I intended for just the folder on my computer to be deleted, but ALL the files from today on my disk also got erased!
I used "recuva" (found it on my own; funny you talk about it here!) and many files were recovered. HOWEVER...... many of them are partially recovered. The really weird thing is that for a few seconds, it DOES show the entire picture; then something happens and part, or all, of the photo is greyed out. Why is this happening? Why can I see the entire recovered photo for a moment, and then it goes away?! ACK!
I have not taken any new photos or done anything else to the memory card. Can someone help?
Thanks,
Robyn
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http://www.mjm.co.uk/Freephoto_recovery.htm
http://maketecheasier.com/restore-deleted-files-using-recuva-portable-in-windows-7/2011/01/01
Haven't tried it myself, but it looks easy enough.
I can't believe how stupid I am. I have such a problem with erasing the disk constantly.
Your images are on a physical disk that is your property and in your custody and it may cost you real dollars to retrieve them from your own disk?
I thought you had an external hard drive or is that where they reside?
I download my files directly from the camera to the external hard drive. (Then I "batch" convert them to jpg on my laptop and then upload the jpg files to a free online photo site.) I can retrieve the RAW files from that external hard drive, copying them to my laptop. Alternatively, I can also run the camera software to create a jpg from the RAW file on the external hard drive and put the jpg on my laptop.
The difference I'm trying to clarify or understand is whether you use a "backup" application (that came with the physical drive) and that "backup" app tries to compress (and I wonder how much compression is possible) but the application does so with some proprietary algorithm or encryption so they can extract a fee for recovery from your drive.
Perhaps I am using unnecessary space by not using the "backup procedure" (because it compresses) but I think I'd rather be able to access the files myself rather than extract every last bit of storage from the drive.
The question to ask is [probably] whether I give up $40 worth of disk space by dumping the files directly to the external drive. Given that the 1.5Tb drive was about $130, I don't think I'm giving up 465.5Gb of space by not using a "backup" program.
I realize the horse is out of the barn for this event, Christine, but from this point forward it seems that the better strategy is probably to just copy or download the RAW files to our external drives and not use the manufacturer's backup application.
Does this make sense to anyone else, am I totally wrong, or have I completely misunderstood the situation?
Thom you are 100% correct. I should upload through a program and save right away. But instead today I viewed them right off of the disk and erased the ones that were bad. I don;t usually do it this way, which is why I forgot to then save them off of the disk and onto the computer. Then when I went to use my camera again I "deleted all" from the disk.
I used "recuva" (found it on my own; funny you talk about it here!) and many files were recovered. HOWEVER...... many of them are partially recovered. The really weird thing is that for a few seconds, it DOES show the entire picture; then something happens and part, or all, of the photo is greyed out. Why is this happening? Why can I see the entire recovered photo for a moment, and then it goes away?! ACK!
I have not taken any new photos or done anything else to the memory card. Can someone help?
Thanks,
Robyn