Disappearing photos

[Philagoofy]

Probably been asked & answered a dozen times but I'll ask again. I have a Nikon D40X. Besides removing the card without turning the camera off, how many other easy ways are there to delete pictures inadvertently? All of my Animal Kingdom, some Epcot & all Sanibel pictures from this year's vacation somehow disappeared. I thought I was pretty careful about turning the camera off before removing the card, so I don't know what happened. I reviewed some of the photos while still on vacation, so I know the cards were ok at the time. But when I got home...poof.

 

[YesDear]

Were you able to get them back with image recovery software?

This may sound really dumb, but are you sure you did not replace the card with another one and forget it. Of course that has never happened to me!

 

[bob100]

Probably been asked & answered a dozen times but I'll ask again. I have a Nikon D40X. Besides removing the card without turning the camera off, how many other easy ways are there to delete pictures inadvertently? All of my Animal Kingdom, some Epcot & all Sanibel pictures from this year's vacation somehow disappeared. I thought I was pretty careful about turning the camera off before removing the card, so I don't know what happened. I reviewed some of the photos while still on vacation, so I know the cards were ok at the time. But when I got home...poof.

the pics can be easily recovered if you haven't used the card in another camera

 

[Philagoofy]

I checked all of the cards we had with us. I'll check out the recovery software. Thanks for the help.

 

[Groucho]

The pictures shouldn't just disappear unless you go in and delete them manually from the camera itself. If you do delete them manually then take more photos, you won't be able to recover them as they will get overwritten.

Removing the card while it's writing shouldn't make pictures disappear, but it can corrupt the one being written and often results in a corrupt file table, which can make other photos (include future ones) not be accessible completely, so you might get half a picture here on one, half on another, etc.

If you're actually seeing random photos disappearing... well, that's really bizarre and the only explanation I can see is that you have gremlins coming in during the night manually deleting photos.

 

[MICKEY88]

were they new cards or cards you had used before ?

I had the same thing happen back in May with brand new cameras and new cards, turned out it was a compatibility issue,pics would just disappear, I could recover them with ZAR but it was a real pain, I contacted the card manufacturer and they said they had a firmware update for the cards, I sent the cards to them, they sent me new cards and they have worked fine since..

 

[DebºoºS]

Maybe they're in a different file or subcat? I've done that. In playback had it set to new pics only not all pics in file A,B etc. Had a moment of terror. They were there the whole time just in a different sub file.
Course that doesn't makes sense for your situation since you looked at the actual card already. nevermind

 

[Philagoofy]

I believe there are 2 cards that I had photos on that are now completely blank. I'd like to think I misplaced them but on 2 different occasions I took a card out of my husband's card case & replaced it upside down (to differentiate from the unused ones) with a used one from my camera. When I got home, I saw those 2 upside down cards & when I put them in my camera & then in the computer, they were completely blank.

I'm not sure if they were new cards and I don't know if we have recovery software. I thought I was careful about opening the camera while on. Maybe while trying to change settings in the dark I somehow deleted them all. I'll have to check my manual to see if that's a possibility.

If a card is overwritted several time, does the recovery software bring back the last set of photos or can you use it only if you've never overwritten the first set?

Thanks for your suggestions. Guess it's a good reason to go back.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I believe there are 2 cards that I had photos on that are now completely blank. I'd like to think I misplaced them but on 2 different occasions I took a card out of my husband's card case & replaced it upside down (to differentiate from the unused ones) with a used one from my camera. When I got home, I saw those 2 upside down cards & when I put them in my camera & then in the computer, they were completely blank.

I'm not sure if they were new cards and I don't know if we have recovery software. I thought I was careful about opening the camera while on. Maybe while trying to change settings in the dark I somehow deleted them all. I'll have to check my manual to see if that's a possibility.

If a card is overwritted several time, does the recovery software bring back the last set of photos or can you use it only if you've never overwritten the first set?

Thanks for your suggestions. Guess it's a good reason to go back.

I have done a recovery from a card after I had deleted some jpgs - forgetting that some of those were taken with my P&S and I didn't have the raw files for them. Ooops! Anyway, I went back to the card, which I had formatted and used again, and the software was able to recover. It probably will just depend on where any new photos have been written to on the card but you may luck out like I did!

 

[MICKEY88]

I believe there are 2 cards that I had photos on that are now completely blank. I'd like to think I misplaced them but on 2 different occasions I took a card out of my husband's card case & replaced it upside down (to differentiate from the unused ones) with a used one from my camera. When I got home, I saw those 2 upside down cards & when I put them in my camera & then in the computer, they were completely blank.

I'm not sure if they were new cards and I don't know if we have recovery software. I thought I was careful about opening the camera while on. Maybe while trying to change settings in the dark I somehow deleted them all. I'll have to check my manual to see if that's a possibility.

If a card is overwritted several time, does the recovery software bring back the last set of photos or can you use it only if you've never overwritten the first set?

Thanks for your suggestions. Guess it's a good reason to go back.

ZAR {zero assumption recovery software} can be downloaded for free, and the photo recovery section is free so you don't have to buy a license to use it.

 

[kevrab]

Did you happen to format the card? That'll make them disappear.