lost pictures, please help!

[paints_me_blue]

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.

[Sebastian]

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

Try something like Photorescue Here .

[paints_me_blue]

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

Try something like Photorescue Here .

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.

[Peter_AUS]

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.

[paints_me_blue]

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.

[another view]

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?

[Peter_AUS]

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.

I hate that you can't just put something in the title and send the post.

[Peter_AUS]

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.

Hope you aren't one of those people asking for help, get it and not achnowledge it.