[Hidden-tech] Images Lost ???

[Chris Duncan, GISmatters]

It's possible that the images (files) are still on your camera's card.  If 
the image files were visible in a Windows operating system, the camera card 
is probably formatted and used in a way much like the computer's hard 
drives - in particular, "deleting" them may not erase them completely and 
you may be able to "undelete" them using standard file recovery software 
that you would use to rescue files from your hard drive.

I have also bought and successfully used some image recovery software for 
the SmartMedia cards used by my Olympus - it may also be able to work with 
other types of camera cards. The cards have been "unreadable" by both 
camera and Windows Explorer, but this software (PhotoRescue - 
http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ ) was able to retrieve all of the 
files.  There are several programs out there like this one - I got this one 
because it had a free trial feature that successfully recovered some prized 
images and I had no hesitation paying the reasonable price after that!

Important (hopefully obvious): don't use your card in any way before trying 
  to recover the files - don't reformat it, erase it, etc.... just leave it 
alone until you try to recover them.

Good luck.

Chris


Afranio Torres-Neto wrote:
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>  Hello Hidden Tech !!!
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>  I think I made a big mistake with some images I took and I was 
> wandering if anyone has some idea if it is possible to retrieve the 
> images. As far as, I can tell I don't think it's possible.
> 
>  So what I did was to download the images to my computer, but I never 
> copied them to a folder. Windows asked me what I wanted to do and I 
> clicked on view folder. I noticied I had an F drive in it coming from my 
> olympus folder. Well, the F drive happens/shows up when you connect the 
> usb cable to the computer. To make things worse I deleted the images 
> from the disk as well. Most of the images I did not care about so not a 
> whole lot of loss. I think it was a good lesson.
> 
>  I think the lesson here if Windows asks to copy make a copy instead of 
> just view images like I did.
> 
>  If you have any suggestions let me thanks,
>  Afranio Torres
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