Emergency Photo Recovery
March 22, 2007 – 8:15 am
My wife recently attended an art conference in New York and she took a bunch of digital photos using our Sony Cybershot camera. She was using a 128 MB memory stick but the camera has a little “bug” that will let you take more photos than the card had space for. Unfortunately, the “bug” part is once you exceed the available space, the pictures on the card are no longer available. That’s right, it deletes the pictures that are on the card. Sucks doesn’t it?
One thing to keep in mind is that when you “delete” files on a digital media like a memory stick, hard drive, etc. (or in this the case when the camera deletes them for you), the files can oftentimes be recovered using special software. In our case I used a great little free program to recover almost all of her photos. The program is Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery. Once I downloaded and installed the program, it took about 15 minutes to recover 511 photos from the card. In fact, I recovered deleted photos that were taken up to a year ago. Keep this great program in mind the next time you think you accidentally delete a photo. They also have a paid version ($49.95 US) that will recover files other than image files.