HELP! My Hubby Accidentally Erased Pictures from my Memory Card

[slmjam]

We just got back last night from an awesome trip to WDW. We played mini golf at Winter Summerland and I got some really fun pics. Only problem is, my husband accidentally erased them from my memory card (as well as the photos I took of the infamous gator at BCV).

Is there ANY way to recover the images he removed? Or, does anyone out there have any photos that I could please use in my scrapbook?

Thanks for any help you guys can offer....

 

[manning]

They can be recovered. BUT DO NOT TOUCH THE MEMORY CARD UNTIL YOU ARE READY TO RECOVER.

The important thing here is you do not want to take pictures causing an overwriting of the erased pictures. The pictures are there you just freed up the memory they are located at to be written to.

There are a number of programs out there to recover the pictures.

I have one called Digital Photography Recovery. It is three years old. There are probably newer ones that others can recommend.

 

[makinorlando]

I used one called ZAR - Zero Assumption Recovery http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ about a month ago when I erased pictures from a day trip to MK. I finally had my Daisy Duck picture, so I was not about to lose them. This is a totally free program. It did not however recover all the pictures (I had over 100 on the card from the day), but I would say 90%.

I then searched for other programs - many were trials, that would recover the pictures, but then you had to purchase in order to save the photos. There was another that I was able to recover three pictures as part of the trial, which was enough to get the best of those the other program did not recover. That one was called File Rescue Plus - by Softwareshelf.

Some programs were very reasonably priced, just at the time I was able to recover everything I wanted for free!

Good luck.... it was very easy to do...

 

[OCSurfCity]

Is it a Compact Flash Card or an SD Card? Take it to your camera shop and ask them if they have a data recovery program that can retrieve your images. It can be done.

 

[slmjam]

I did it! I was able to download a program and recovered all the files (it was from an SD card). It sounds silly, but I actually cried big sloppy tears when I thought I lost my pictures. I'm such a dork!

Thank you all for the quick replies. I knew I could depend on y'all for help!!!

 

[makinorlando]

I did it! I was able to download a program and recovered all the files (it was from an SD card). It sounds silly, but I actually cried big sloppy tears when I thought I lost my pictures. I'm such a dork!

Thank you all for the quick replies. I knew I could depend on y'all for help!!!

Congrats!

Don't feel bad for crying, but I did the same thing when I thought I lost my Daisy Duck pics... not that it was anything special, but we had been trying to find here for weeks at the parks. Since we are local, we are able to go as often as we can, so the picture could have been re-created, but not the moment, and excitement of finally getting our timing right to see here! One of my now favorite pics of the tea cups was also on the card.... so in retrospect I was elated!!

 

[hlbtimes2]

Wow, I'm glad I read this thread. I dont need the info right now, but its nice to know there is something that can be done.

 

[Laura]

Yay! I'm glad you got your pictures back!!!

 

[Kelly Grannell]

glad that you got your pics back.

But a word of advice, get a "Rusty Spiky Mallet with Automatic Lime Juice Squirter" (patent pending) and hit you DH's head with it.

 

[slmjam]

Kelly,

Oh.... he endured my pain. He sat at the computer almost two hours trying to figure out what he had done so he could "undo" it. All I really kept thinking was if he would just let me sit down for five minutes and ask a few hundred friends on the DIS a question, we would probably find out how to handle his little predicament. Needless to say, he has vowed to never touch or look at another one of my cards before the pictures are saved to CD or I have the actual prints.

 

[MICKEY88]

Kelly,

Oh.... he endured my pain. He sat at the computer almost two hours trying to figure out what he had done so he could "undo" it. All I really kept thinking was if he would just let me sit down for five minutes and ask a few hundred friends on the DIS a question, we would probably find out how to handle his little predicament. Needless to say, he has vowed to never touch or look at another one of my cards before the pictures are saved to CD or I have the actual prints.

you should copy your cards to your hard drive immediately, to avoid future problems..

 

[tadamom]

What we did when we went in 2001 was we took our laptop computer and downloaded our pictures every night. We wanted to make sure that we had absolutely enough space on all of the cards we had so that we wouldn't miss a picture opportunity b/c of space on the cards. Just a thought!

 

[ndelaware]

What we did when we went in 2001 was we took our laptop computer and downloaded our pictures every night. We wanted to make sure that we had absolutely enough space on all of the cards we had so that we wouldn't miss a picture opportunity b/c of space on the cards. Just a thought!

I do the same and burn the images to a disc every night.

 

[slmjam]

you should copy your cards to your hard drive immediately, to avoid future problems..

That's kind of how he got into this problem. We were having space issues on our hard drive; he tried to burn images to the CD, and then somehow erased about 60 pictures.

All is well now. Images restored and everything burned to CD. Whew!!!