Q: I inadvertently deleted some photos from my Canon camera's SD memory card. They are vacation photos taken in Venice, Italy, a place we probably will never visit again. Please tell me there's a way to get them back?
A: Fortunately for you, there is. When you delete files from a camera's memory card, they aren't actually erased. They stick around - sort of like the cursed crew in "Pirates of the Caribbean," who, in the words of Capt. Barbossa, "are not among the living, and so we cannot die, but neither are we dead."
When you delete photos from your Canon camera, the photo itself isn't deleted, just the index entry that says where the data for those files is located. The space containing the deleted photos is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead. So it is very, very important to not take any more pictures to the camera memory card from which you want to get back deleted photos.
You can get back deleted photos from camera memory card on your own with a good photo recovery software. Quick Internet searches will give you a tremendous number of programs that advertise lost photo recovery, and most of them cost between $25 - $40. And I'm using a program called Wondershare Photo Recovery that does the very same job but just cost me $29.95. Now I will tell you how to get back deleted photos by Photo Recovery:
Wondershare Photo Recovery is reliable photo recovery software to easily perform photo recovery and memory card recovery with nice quality. It is also non-destructive media recovery software which helps you retrieve video, restore audio, and recover music from all storage devices. No matter your photos or multimedia files have been deleted accidently, memory cards have been formatted.
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After the installation, lauch this photo recovery tool. The main panel shows like this:
The Photo Recovery start to scan your disk including your PC hard disk and your Canon memory card. This step may take some time depending on the size of disk space. You don't need to wait until scanning is finished and you can click "Next" to finish scanning.
After you select path or enter a directory for recovered photos, you can click "Next" button to recover the photos from Canon digital camera.
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For better running Photo Recovery and get higher recovery quality, please check your computer system at first.
| Operating System: | Win7 64 / 32 / Vista 64/ 32/ XP / 2003 / 2000 / 9X |
| CPU: | 200 MHz |
| RAM | 128 MB or more of RAM |
| Disk Space | 10 MB of free space |
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