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Re: [OM] Help needed: any possible way to recover them ....

Subject: Re: [OM] Help needed: any possible way to recover them ....
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:28:45 -0500
Moose has properly identified the one exception to not deleting in 
camera.  You may delete the last one *provided* you had not previously 
deleted another.  If there was a previous deletion the last image may 
not be the last one in the chain of storage locations.

Chuck Norcutt

Moose wrote:
> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> What I surely had were four really good beach pictures inside my Stylus 
>> 720SW - until my 15-year daughter entered Menu > Erase > Erase All.
>> She had good reasons to Erase a selected one ... my fault.
>>
>> I suspect there could be a means to recover them, since when I power it up 
>> one of the erased .jpg shows up in the display, and because counter says 67 
>> instead of zero.
>>
>> How?
>>   
> 
> My recollection in a similar situation is the the app, RescuePro, that 
> came with one of my SanDisk cards, didn't work at all. I think the one 
> that did was FreeUndelete. 
> <http://ref.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/?5316fru> As I recall, it 
> didn't recover everything, as I had taken some pics since and 
> overwritten. Things may be different with an xD card than the SDHC card 
> I worked with. If one recovery app doesn't work, just try another. there 
> are a lot of free or trial version ones out there.
> 
> What did recover everything was the copies I had made each night on the 
> laptop. Why or how I had missed copying a day's shooting onto the 
> desktop or erased it, I'll never know for sure. I think it was due to 
> running out of space on my main image disk and getting into a 
> complicated arrangement of primary and back-up locations on various 
> disks. I do know that rigid rules not to delete any image in-camera 
> other than the last one taken and of making copies on FlashTrax and/or 
> Laptop each night saved me the one time I somehow screwed up.
> 
> Especially after that incident, I compare directories on the portable 
> storage devices to those on the desktop and update the back-ups of those 
> before deleting anything on the portables.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Moose
> 
>> TIA
>>
>> Fernando.
>>
>> Richard Lovison wrote:
>>   
>>> Are you enjoying the Florida warmth and sunshine? Send beach pictures. :)
>>>   
>>>     
>>
>>   
> 
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