Question for IT experts

[NVRover]

I have deleted recent vacation photos from our digital camera and I would like to know if there is a way to recover them? I was downloading them to our computer (or so I thought) and when I was viewing them on the computer I went ahead and deleted them from the camera (Olympus D560 zoom). What I did not realize was that there was one more step to the downloading process and at the time I was actually viewing the pictures from the camera. Am I SOL here? I would appreciate any help anyone can offer. Thanks

 

[scubaman99]

if you are talking about recovering pictures from the memory stick from your camera... your hosed...

if your talking about recovering pictures from your hard drive, you might be able to restore them from your deleted items folder

 

[dent]

if it's not in your deleted folder try downloading a undelete program as the file still might be on your hard drive but taken out of your file table
sam

 

[blur212]

from what it sounds like is that you were just viewing them from the memory card. then you deleted them with out transfering them to your computer. unfortunately i think you may have lost them.

 

[Eric N.]

When you were viewing the pictures what was the program that the pictures were opening in? Was it Internet Explorer or some other picture program? If it was internet Explorer those pictures ( at least the ones that you looked at) may be still on your computer in your Temporary Internet Files folder. If it was opening up from some other program you could try poking around your computer for a temp folder for that program and see if they are in that. Good luck..

 

[NVRover]

When you were viewing the pictures what was the program that the pictures were opening in?

I was viewing them from the Olympus desktop software unfortunately. I found a tmp file. Is that the type of temporary file I'm looking for, if so how do I open it or convert to a jpg file? Unfortunately it has 0kb of memory, so there may not be anything there.

Thanks for everyone's help!!

 

[Apexdisco]

What OS?

98?

Win2k Pro?

XP?

Try these:

http://www.symantec.com/nu/nu_9x/features.html

http://www.uneraser.com/undelete.htm

http://rognerud.com/file-recover (Free trial)

 

[antichrist]

If they are really important to you, a data recovery service should be able to recover them (it won't be cheap), unless the camera actually formats they drive (which I doubt), as opposed to deleting (deleting doesn't really delete, merely resets the file pointers, depending on the OS).

 

[skydiver]

Most memory sticks & flash cards are simply fat16 formatted. Tons of programs out there can recover the data. The biggest thing you have to do to ensure the best possibility of recovery is to *NOT* write any data to that disk. Put it aside until you figure out your gameplan.

A nice windows package I've used before is called Filerestore from Winternals. Last year I used filerestore to get images back from a friends flash disk. He's a professional photographer, and he had some photos of the band Whitesnake which were to be used on their tour program. Somehow he deleted the images, and the deadline for the tour program was upon him, so he fedex'd me the disk, I recovered the images in 20 mins, burned them to a cd, and fedex'd the disk and cd back to him.

Back in the 'old' dos days, I used to just dump the sector-by-sector contents of the disk to a file either another disk or on a hard drive, then look for individual header/footer data and save the chunks out to their respective individual files. Norton Utilites v4.5 was an awesome tool. A lost art these days, unfortunately.

-Tommy

 

[syoung]

If you have not written to that memory in the camera- they are there and can be recovered. There's even a software tool made for exactly that purpose, but I can't recall teh name and I have the info at home... Do some googling and you'll find it- I think it's shareware or freeware. Should be cake to get them back if there hasn't been any other use of the memory since the accidental deletion.

EDIT: RescuePro is the retail software that was suggested by a photographer friend. There's still some shareware/freeware that is similar, but I haven't found the name yet.

 

[antichrist]

Here's one I have the OS/2 version of. Incredible, and free fully functional eval version. DFSee

 

[skydiver]

Here's one I have the OS/2 version of. Incredible, and free fully functional eval version. DFSee

Is OS/2 is still around?? I remember playing with OS/2 and DESQView in the early 90's, when I was looking to multitask some BBS software. I went with DESQView, though.

-Tommy

 

[syoung]

I still have one computer at home running WARP

 

[antichrist]

At home I have a Nefinity 7000 server running OS/2 Warp Server, a laptop running it, and a desktop. It's very likely, seeing were you live, your bank is using OS/2 in it's branch operations. At least for another year or two. I use OS/2 every day at work.

 

[syoung]

IBM's marketing was as bad as Land Rover's marketing... decent product, but killed by the competition's marketing firm.

 

[antichrist]

Well..didn't hurt that their competitor was also violating anti-trust law

Lou Gerstner had a party at his house, included were a bunch of reporters from various trade magazines. As things began to wind down Gerstner took a walk out along the path beside a small lake with his dog, answering questions of the reporters about the furture of IBM, OS/2, AIX and the like. As he was talking he bent down, picked up a stick and threw it out into the lake for his dog to fetch. The reporters jaws dropped as the dog ran out across the top of the water, picked up the stick, and ran back, dropping it at Lou's feet.

The next week all the magazines reported the event:
Lou Gerstner's Dog Can't Swim!

 

[ducati]

They can be recovered. I use SanDisk Extreme cards, and they come with recovery software. There are shareware versions out there that you only pay for if they recover photos.

I have used it once and it worked great! The main issue is do NOT write anything to that card. Good advice above.

Here's a link to a popular one:
PhotoRescue

 

[ducati]

BTW wew used OS2 WARP at the old bank I worked at. Awesome OS!!

 

[skydiver]

Nice to see other 'geeks' who have servers running in their homes. Most people look at me crosseyed when I tell them about all of the machines setup in my computer room.

 

[ducati]

I have pared down at home significantly. I have only OS X running at home now--sacrilige for a .net developer!