Public service announcement

This is from my blog, and I am NOT retyping it, so I copy and pasted.

Yesterday BR went to his deer stand and got his SD card out of the game camera.

He deleted the ones he didnt want, then was double checking with me on what he needed to do. I was laying here, trying to fight puking with a headache from hell, and told him to right click and send it to his desktop. Not realizing this created a shortcut, Usually myself, I sent everything to my documents. BUT he has his deer folder ON his desktop. that is as far as he goes into the computer. PERIOD. So, he did that, then he draged it over to his folder and put it in there, went through deleted some more, named the folder with the date, named the pics with the date. and then went to delete the pics off the card.

He deleted everything. all those pics, cause they wernt on his computer, he was working off a shortcut.



Anyway, I started trying to find programs. and I found QUITE a few. But they ALL cost me money. And even though BR said "30.00 isnt bad, and you will always have the program then" I was determined to find a free one. SO, I kept searching.

Now, even if you have NEVER deleted pictures off your camera, or its never reformated the card and you lost pics, it will happen. its the nature of the beast. I would reccomend that EVERYONE get at least one of these programs, but both of them are free, one for a limited time, and the other one will find files you deleted out of your hard drive.
These programs took me about an hour to download, so those of you on a quick conection will be done before you count my spelling mistakes.

I downloaded about 4 programs, and they all found 192 pictures, BUT they would only give me thumbnails until I paid for them. (I swear it said 15 day free trial), or better than that, one just gave me a list of what it found and no thumbnails. and then held it for ransom for 70.00. NO THANK YOU. I didnt pay that much for the dang game camera!!

Then finally I found a free one, But it only could recover 98 photos... not sure why. but then I found the two below and downloaded them, I was able to recover the pics with no problems, put them on a new SD card and give them to BR to put on his computer.

I really do think its a good idea to have these programs just in case, you might not ever be dumb enough to delete your pics, but you never know when one of your kids will do it!!

Finds folders in your Hard drive AND on media cards
http://www.undelete-plus.com/

Finds deleted Memory cards (SD card) pictures.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecovery.html


Just be sure, if you dont download these, to let me know when you loose a file, or data on a SD card, so I can laugh at you. Its only fair, you laugh at me all the time

these are not just for SD cards, its for all cards, but I only USE SD cards, But these were for any cards that do that type thing. ( some cameras use memory sticks or such)

Wow! That is so cool. I am so going to download these.

You are right it is always something that could happen. I know it happened MORE than once at the photography company I used to work for. lol

good idea! I save all my pics online as soon as I upload them, but I have done the delete thing, and it sucks

Thanks y'all.

and with this, you can sometimes recover pics that were deleted weeks or months ago!!

it was explained (and y'all might already know this) that computers dont actually DELETE whats there, they delete the LINK, and so you cant find it anymore.

BUT, until its written over, you are able to 'recover' it.

I found one of my old cards, did it, and it pulled up pics from years ago! LOL there was some newer ones too, but these old ones hadnt been written over yet!

Thanks! I might be needing one of those programs. I got a new camera for Christmas and I didn't format the SD card. I put that SD card in my old camera to upload the pictures and it says that the memory card is full (it's not even close to being full), and that there are no recognized files on it. But when I put it back in my new camera, I can view all the pictures. I'm hoping that I just have to bite the bullet and put my new software on the computer and it will work perfectly. LOL.

it probably will, With the newer cameras there is usually is no formatting. I don't have any SD cards, mine takes XD. i have to get an sd because my dig frames all take sd.....