I went to a show last weekend and brought my digital camera to take some photos. The next day I was formatting an older photo from a few weeks before. I agreed to the confirmation of formatting it, and before I knew it every single photo (including the ones from the concert) was gone. Are they deleted forever? How can they be deleted if I was only formatting? I think they must be somewhere in the camera or on the memory card. I've taken it to 2 camera places to see if they can be recovered, but to no avail. There must be some other option!

Any advice would be appreciated, those pictures mean a lot to me!! Thanks.

Formatting means to rewrite the file system of your card, it wipes everything and rewrites a fresh file system.

Try something like Photorescue Here (http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/) .

Formatting means to rewrite the file system of your card, it wipes everything and rewrites a fresh file system.

Try something like Photorescue Here (http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/) .


Hey Seb,

Thanks a lot for the info, I appreciate it. Clearly I'm a beginner at this stuff... I'll definitely try it and hope it works.

If you haven't done anything on the card since, it will recover your files. Has helped me out a couple of ooppsss's and the cost is worth paying for it.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

When you say Photorescue will recover my files "if I haven't done anything on the card since", does that mean that I can't take anymore pictures? I'm going on a trip this week and was planning to bring that camera; however, I'm having trouble downloading the Photorescue program onto my computer. I'm not sure if the bug will be fixed before the trip... so should I just leave the camera at home? I wouldn't want to jeopardize the chance I have of recovering my pictures.

Any ideas would be helpful, thanks again.

Yes - you can't use that card until you try to recover the files with photorescue. When you format a card, you re-write the directory on it but images may be able to be found as long as you haven't shot anything on it since you formatted it. It's not a guaranteed fix, and you may not get everything - but you'll probably get something.

Why not pick up another memory card and just leave that one at home?

Thanks for all the suggestions.

When you say Photorescue will recover my files "if I haven't done anything on the card since", does that mean that I can't take anymore pictures? I'm going on a trip this week and was planning to bring that camera; however, I'm having trouble downloading the Photorescue program onto my computer. I'm not sure if the bug will be fixed before the trip... so should I just leave the camera at home? I wouldn't want to jeopardize the chance I have of recovering my pictures.

Any ideas would be helpful, thanks again.
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Thanks for all the suggestions.

When you say Photorescue will recover my files "if I haven't done anything on the card since", does that mean that I can't take anymore pictures? I'm going on a trip this week and was planning to bring that camera; however, I'm having trouble downloading the Photorescue program onto my computer. I'm not sure if the bug will be fixed before the trip... so should I just leave the camera at home? I wouldn't want to jeopardize the chance I have of recovering my pictures.

Any ideas would be helpful, thanks again.
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