Is it possible to recover deleted photos from Olympus digital camera

When you delete photos (or any files) from Olympus digital camera the photos itself isn’t deleted, just the file system pointers that says where the data for those photos is located. The area where the deleted photo data was stored is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead.

If and when that happens, then it is too late to recover your deleted photos so it is very, very important that new photos aren’t saved to the memory card in the meantime.

One of the easiest ways to see if your deleted photo from Olympus digital camera can be recovered is to try some photo recovery software.

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The reason is when you delete photos from Olympus digital camera it does not actually delete the photos, it just deletes the file information on the file allocation table and leaves the photos data intact. With this information the digital camera thinks the space occupied by the old photos are available for use. When you start taking new photos you start to overwrite the areas vacated by the old photos and then the old photos are really "deleted" by the process of having new information overwritten in that area of the SD card. Once new data is written over old data, then the old data is gone for good. Also, what most people don't realize is that flash based memory cards like SD and USB drives have a limited life cycle - they do not last forever. Every time data is written and deleted or formatted, it takes a toll on the flash device (granted the life cycle is pretty long).

You can recover deleted photos from Olympus digital 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 recover deleted photos by Photo Recovery.

Here are a few precautions you need to follow which are essential if you want to recover deleted photos from Olympus digital camera.

1. Remove the memory card from your camera and put it in a safe place so that you won’t accidentally overwrite your deleted photos.

2. Don't save any pictures to this memory card.

If you do save new images to the memory card, then chances are the deleted files will be overwritten by the new images rendering deleted photos unrecoverable.

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.

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 Olympus 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.

Here you can preview the available and recoverable photos you want to recover like below.

After you select path or enter a directory for recovered photos, you can click "Next" button to recover the photos from Olympus digital camera.