Need to recover deleted photos?

This is not the kind of thing I’d usually post about, but I just recovered over 400 deleted photos from my camera’s sim card. Yeehaw!

So it all started when I returned from a gloriously beautiful vacation in the Sierras and proceeded to download my photos the way I always do, using Adobe Photoshop Elements photo downloader. I even went out to Explorer to confirm that the files were on my hard drive before deleting them off my camera. Yup, check, they were there.

Or so I thought. Somehow the photos I saw must’ve been some kind of temp file preview. Photoshop Elements died mid-stream and the photos were no longer on my hard drive. I was mystified and very bummed!

So, I went searching on the Internet. Tried one free program that didn’t work (Asoftech photo recovery). Then found a review for PhotoRescue that claimed this software could recover deleted photos off my camera’s sim card. I had to go buy a card reader at Radio Shack ($12).

I plugged in the card reader and ran PhotoRescue and . . . YES, BROTHER! There they were. All my vacation photos. Too awesome. I love technology sometimes!

This is a cool model, too. First, you run the trial version of the software to see if it can find your files. If it does, you then go buy a reg-key ($29) and complete the process to download the photos. You only pay if it works. We wouldn’t need healthcare reform if the medical establishment followed this model.

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August 16, 2009 | Filed Under Perfect World 

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