How To Get Back Accidentally Deleted Photos From Your Camera

October 1, 2008

It’s quick and easy to delete photo files on your digital camera. Maybe because your camera’s designers wanted an easy way to delete photos while they were testing the design. A couple of clicks and that third rate photo has disappeared. Problem is, that means it’s a bit too easy to remove a photo instead of keeping it, to be later transferred to your computer or passed around the internet. or even worse, you’ve answered “yes” to the question that needed to know if you wanted to format your complete camera memory card contents. Ouch!

Now, if that was on your computer you’d likely go into the recycle bin and restore the photo you’d just deleted in error.

But there’s no recycle bin on your digital camera. Does this problem mean that the photos you took so much time taking are now just digital dust?

Fortunately, the answer is “no”.

But you need to be careful. The memory card in your camera is quite a lot like the system on your PC’s disk drive. The available files in the menu are ones that you haven’t deleted. But the filing system is lazy and hasn’t really deleted the file yet. What it’s actually done is marked the “deleted” photo’s space as ready to re-use..

So if you’ve accidentally erased a photo, don’t do anything else on your camera before you’ve done your best to retrieve your lost work of art.

There’s a simple piece of software that you can download which will come to the rescue.

All you need to do is connect your camera to your PC in the same way as you would to download photos from it. Then follow a few simple, step by step instructions. You can watch a demo of how this works here.

The undelete photo software can recover single photographs, your whole camera memoryy card (in those instances where the card has been totally formatted) and also has a high rate of success with those annoying errors that can affect memory cards.

It’s as simple as that to get back all those photos that you thought had been lost forever.

You can download this easy to use photo recovery sofware here.