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Okay Okay.....I was in a rush(stupid I know)...and deleted some images off my CF card to my computer's trash to make room for some other edited images...I emptied the trash....over wrote the card with new pics. I later realized the deleted pics were important...(IMPORTANT I SAY!!!) Who is the genius out there that can tell me if there is a recovery software (free would be nice but I'm not holding my breath) to retrieve my (important) pics from my hard drive......please please please for info...I'm working on MAC OS X.... Jul 12 05 09:55 am Link Image Rescue is provided with Lexar media Also see Photo Rescue Note - if you've written new images to the card, it's likely you've already lost data (permenantly). The old data is still there until you overwrite it with new images. Jul 12 05 10:53 am Link I was hoping the images would still be in my computer's hard drive...I know the cf card is a lost cause Jul 12 05 11:55 am Link If you want to get the information off of the hard drive, it is possible depending on the skill of the technican. Be careful not to write too much more to the hard drive before you attempt to retrieve. Have you tried the simple programs of retriveal yet, such as Nortons and others? Jul 12 05 01:19 pm Link ive used easy recovery professional with 'some' success. I had not one but TWO 300 gb maxtor drives fail on me, and recovered about 85% of my images. Short of sending my drives out, I was pretty happy. death to maxtor. lol http://www.ontrack.com/ Jul 12 05 03:20 pm Link The key is that your harddrive hasn't overwritten the sectors that had the images on them. I actually had a problem with an employee of mine reformatting and partitioning a drive that I had about 8 gigs of images on. These images existed only on this drive. Photosessions for a client with a few high end vehicles and bikini models. Basically irreplaceable shots. I was able to get about 80 percent of the images back, but had to send the drive out to a recovery specialist. Nightmare. Very expensive. Jul 12 05 04:58 pm Link I did the same recently when I thought i had backed up a lot of client images to a hard drive from my powerbook and trashed a whole days work by mistake. I had to use the pb as a firewire drive to minimise writing over the data but by using a datarescue from prosoft i managed to recover most of the files. One of the problems i found with the software like rescuepro that has recovered images from microdrives, etc was getting the Pb drive recognised. Although it says that the programme doesn't recover OSX files it recovered the images for me. http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php Best of luck Ian Jul 12 05 05:32 pm Link Thanks guys, I appreciate all the suggestions... Jul 12 05 06:18 pm Link Posted by IZONUFOTO: you need to find a software 'www.ontrack.com' that will recognise the mac OS formatted drive data. you need to do this before the data sectors are over written by you SAVING ANY OTHER DATA to that drive. Jul 14 05 10:18 am Link I just did a shoot and I swear I saved the images to my hard drive on my laptop. For some reason I cant seem to find the images anywhere. It was saved to the C drive, but when I try and click on the C drive nothing. I have heard about recovering images from you CF card I shot around 140 images and loaded them to the Lap Top and then I erased the images off the CF card. I only took another 20 images on the card after that is there anyway I can recover those other 120 images. I really need them HELP!!!!!! Jul 17 05 06:50 pm Link Posted by Smitty: If you haven't reformatted the card, you most likely can recover the files.. I did this for a few people, but there is a possibility that some, if not all the files may be truncated.. Might save with cropping.. Jul 17 05 07:00 pm Link I have used "MediaRECOVER Advanced" on a PC with much luck. Never tried getting anything off a card that has been formatted. A friend has used this on the Mac and also was pleased with it. I will be getting it for my Mac soon. I recovered over 100 images for a friend and she was only wanting the last 12 she shot. She said some images were taken as far at 6 months before and trashed. She was happy but shocked at what I was able to retrieve. Good luck Jul 17 05 09:47 pm Link |
