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Jan 04, 2006 19:39 |  #1

Hoping some of you have some good advice on image recovery software. I just realized that I'm missing images (probably a whole card) from a wedding that I did at the end of Oct. I've shot several things on this particular card since I did the wedding so I'm not sure if they will still be there, but I need to at least try. The pictures I'm missing are from the reception, cake cut, first dance, and misc. candids. I did get some of those shots with my other camera, but the best ones would be on this other card.
So if anyone can stear me to a really good image recovery software I would really appreciate it.

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Jan 04, 2006 20:24 |  #2

I have had pretty good luck with RescuePro (external link), but my issue was a card that errored out as unreadable by my camera. I did not put more data over the data I want to recover, as it sounds like you did. I do wish you the best, but I fear that you might not have much to recover. Your only hope is that you only partially filled the card on subsequent writes. Say the wedding was 900 megs on a 1 gig card. Then you shot 600 megs on top of the wedding shots, that will mean only the last 300 megs of wedding shots will be available for recover.

I wish you luck.

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Jan 04, 2006 20:29 |  #3

Free older version of a program that's now commercial. I don't like your chances, but you've nothing to lose.

http://home.arcor.de/a​.niggemann/dir.zip (external link)


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Jan 04, 2006 20:53 |  #4

i used photorescue for my lost wedding pics... worked like a charm!
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Jan 04, 2006 21:04 |  #5

I have used a program for hard drives that have been formatted and reinstalled the operating system that works great. The name of it is Recover my Files, I dont know if it will work for a card but its worth a shot. http://www.recovermyfi​les.com/ (external link)


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Jan 04, 2006 23:53 |  #6

Thanks for your help everyone. I'll try your suggestions out. I tried a recovery software out that came with my Lexar card. It went back quite a ways, but not far enough. I think I shot way too many jobs after the fact. I have a friend who says he's got recovery software that cost over a thousand dollars, and if anything can recover the images, his should be able to do it. But I think that it's just impossible for the fact I just shot way too much over it. They are long gone. I'm just so thankful that it happened with reception pictures and not Bride and Groom or Family/Bridal Party pictures. It's still a total bummer, but it could have been a lot worse.

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Jan 05, 2006 00:09 |  #7

I figure most image recovery software is pretty similar, try the free one I linked too, and the expensive one.

Most people make this mistake once. Intelligent people make it only once. I've altered my workflow to make sure I don't lose more images - I lost some unimportant images in the past. I don't erase CF cards at weddings, and until the images are on at least 2 magnetic drives in 2 locations I keep the images on the cards. I also review the images right after the wedding to make sure none are missing that I expected.


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