Recovering Your Deleted Photos

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to share some knowledge and the ‘how to’ for those who didn’t realise how you can recover your deleted images off your memory cards.

On the weekend I stupidly, but accidentally deleted my early morning long exposure photos off my 8GB CF card, including my ‘Point Lonsdale Pier at Dawn’, but here it is recovered:

Best practice I’ve found (learning from mistakes) is summed up here:

1. Format your memory card before any shoot, that way you’ll start from a clean/empty card and you won’t have to worry about going back and deleting old images (and then delete the wrong ones like I did)

2. If you do accidently delete your shots, don’t stress, remove your memory card from your camera straight away – this is the most important part – don’t take any more shots on that memory card – you could overwrite your deleted photos.

3. There are many programs you can download (most you have to pay for), but you can download a freeware program called “PC Inspector Smart Recovery” from Snapfiles here

For those with SanDisk Extreme memory cards, SanDisk distributes software with their Extreme media called ‘RescuPRO’ which can also be used to recover your files.  Pays to check out the little disks that come with your memory cards…who would have thought ! 🙂

4. Install and recover !

Other Notes
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*  I’d also recommend installing the software on your laptop, so if your on the road/away you can recover on the go and not wait till you get home

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* Take a spare card with you so you can still keep shooting.

Hope this helps !

Jared