Lost photos

[yallcome]

Took lots of photos today at a medieval fest. Camera (10d w/ 70-200mm) was working fine, preview after each shot showed up and I just clicked away. Got home and had only the first 17 shots I had made. Everything else gone. Any ideas? )(*&)(*&ed me off.

[gillyworld]

Try one of the recovery packages like imagerecall3 http://www.imagerecall.com/You can download a trial and then purchase if it looks like recovering your files.

Alan

[robertwgross]

When you shoot a session and then transfer the images to the computer, how do you do it?

Then, do you delete images from the CF card, or do you reformat the whole CF card? If you reformat, how do you do it... quick in the camera or a complete reformat?

---Bob Gross---

[malum]

If you have a card reader you may find you can recover them simply by right clicking on the 'disc drive' that it creates in explorer and then choosing properties and tools then check the disc for errors.
if this doesn't work you can use a recovery program. I use Bad copy Pro which works very well.

[yallcome]

Seemed to have lost everything in the subdirectory 112CANON -- I still don't get it, but after running PC Inspector Smart Recovery, which found nothing after running for 3 hours - 4 gig Hitachi -- I then went to Windows Explorer and looked, and everything was there. Magic! Thanks for the support!

[yallcome]

I guess I should have followed this up long ago, but just now remembering having this problem prompted me to come back.

Turns out this was all due to crankiness with the shutter in the 10D I had (before it was stolen). I ended up with Canon replacing the shutter in the camera before these problems got fixed!! Anyway, 10D is gone now and I have a knockabout one to use until the 5d gets upgraded (soon I hope).

Seemed to have lost everything in the subdirectory 112CANON -- I still don't get it, but after running PC Inspector Smart Recovery, which found nothing after running for 3 hours - 4 gig Hitachi -- I then went to Windows Explorer and looked, and everything was there. Magic! Thanks for the support!

[Ben Daniels]

I guess I should have followed this up long ago, but just now remembering having this problem prompted me to come back.

Turns out this was all due to crankiness with the shutter in the 10D I had (before it was stolen). I ended up with Canon replacing the shutter in the camera before these problems got fixed!! Anyway, 10D is gone now and I have a knockabout one to use until the 5d gets upgraded (soon I hope).

Thanks for the update. I've been wondering for 2 1/2 years what the outcome was ;)