ZoomBrowser disaster

Help, please help. I accidentally deleted (erased) the file folder that I had downloaded today. Since I was enhancing some photos all afternoon, I had already deleted them from my camera then, before I knew what I had done, I deleted the folder too. Is there any way to retrieve them from a wastebasket or other place within the ZoomBrowser program? How about the data on the card in my G9? Is there some way to recover the last erased file? I know, I know, it asks if I'm sure I want to erase. I just made a mistake, a horrible mistake.

That sucks ill look into it.

Try a systems restore.

DON'T do a System Restore. That won't help, and may hurt your chances.

The solution isn't within Zoom Browser. You'll need a file recovery program. There are numerous free ones around, but my preferred tool for this kind of thing is (commercial) Photo Rescue Expert from DataRescue]DataRescue. It costs a reasonable amount, but you can download the trial and run it against your card or disc to see what it says it can recover; if you're happy with that you can then pay to unlock the full functionality. Since your problem's strictly with deleted files and folders, not with a card or disk failure, it may be overkill and a free "undelete" utility may be sufficient.

First step - don't do anything with your computer or the memory card until you''ve downloaded (yes, that means using a different computer to do this) a recovery program or two to try. Install it on some kind of removable media, like a USB flash drive.
Second - while you're at that other computer, run the recovery program on your card(s). Anything it finds, you want to save on another drive, not back on your card. This minimizes your chances of stomping on part of one of the photos you want if you recover an older one first, by accident.
Third - now you're ready to run it on your main computer, against the hard disk where Zoom Browser moved the files. Same procedure - don't write recovered files back to the hard drive; write them to something else.

Good luck.

You should be able to easily recover them right from your card using PC Inspector Smart Recovery, which is free. I've used a bunch of recovery tools - some pretty expensive - and have found this one to be the best. It recognizes Canon RAW files too.

In a Windows PC, a 'delete' of a folder from the harddrive always goes into the Recycle Bin. Open the Recycle Bin, find the icon for the deleted folder and highlight it and right click, then 'File', 'Restore' it. If you have not cleaned out the Recycle Bin, that will restore your folder to the original location.

People are forgetting to tell you the number one thing not to do. Do not go installing anything to the drive for which you lost this data. It is all still savable only if you don't overwrite the old deleted data with new stuff. I once had a harddrive take a serious dive on me. Numerous bad sectors and 23 hours later I recovered over 15GB of photos. Only 10 or so were corrupt.

Things deleted into the Recycle Bin are preserved on the disk until you Empty Recycle Bin...even if you add something to the drive, the data is preserved until you Empty Recycle Bin. Bad sectors are not handled by the Recycle Bin...which is why they sectors are lost if the drive is written to!

I26 wrote in post #5829753
People are forgetting to tell you the number one thing not to do. Do not go installing anything to the drive for which you lost this data. It is all still savable only if you don't overwrite the old deleted data with new stuff. I once had a harddrive take a serious dive on me. Numerous bad sectors and 23 hours later I recovered over 15GB of photos. Only 10 or so were corrupt.

I beg your pardon . . . STEP 1

Jon wrote in post #5826413
DON'T do a System Restore. That won't help, and may hurt your chances.

The solution isn't within Zoom Browser. You'll need a file recovery program. There are numerous free ones around, but my preferred tool for this kind of thing is (commercial) Photo Rescue Expert from DataRescue]DataRescue. It costs a reasonable amount, but you can download the trial and run it against your card or disc to see what it says it can recover; if you're happy with that you can then pay to unlock the full functionality. Since your problem's strictly with deleted files and folders, not with a card or disk failure, it may be overkill and a free "undelete" utility may be sufficient.

First step - don't do anything with your computer or the memory card until you''ve downloaded (yes, that means using a different computer to do this) a recovery program or two to try. Install it on some kind of removable media, like a USB flash drive.
Second - while you're at that other computer, run the recovery program on your card(s). Anything it finds, you want to save on another drive, not back on your card. This minimizes your chances of stomping on part of one of the photos you want if you recover an older one first, by accident.
Third - now you're ready to run it on your main computer, against the hard disk where Zoom Browser moved the files. Same procedure - don't write recovered files back to the hard drive; write them to something else.

Good luck.

Whoops, my apologies, didn't see "Step 1".

Everything "remains" on a disk until it is overwritten with new data. I have salvaged many GB of data for myself and others. I once opps'd 8GB worth of MP3s. Got everything back fine. I have a windows pc and my files do not go into the bin. I always hold the shift key and then hit delete which skips the bin. Even a reformated disk can be salvaged with proper tools. All a reformat does is wipe the index clean.

Sectors do not get "lost". If a sector becomes "corrupt" it needs to either be replaced with a new one, which from what I have read recently, is what some manufacturers include(extra sectors), either way the bad sector is still physically there, or it needs to be marked as bad which tells the drive to ignore it. As far as I know you can't just delete it or ditch it otherwise.

And by all means, no matter how much you want to try it, don't go for the system restore method.