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July 22, 2008
Recovering Lost Photos from CF Card
I lost some files today, while moving them from my CF card to my PC using Windows Explorer. I'm not clear what happened exactly, but it concerned me enough that I decided to recover them, even though it was only about 30 photos.
First, I tried installing and running Free Undelete 2.0 by OfficeRecovery.com. This was as useless as tits on a bull. It found a bunch of files, and said that it restored them, but I couldn't open them using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
Next, I tried a program called CardRecovery (version 4.10) by WinRecovery. It found a ton of files on the card, in addition to the 30 odd photos I wanted. It also allowed me to preview them, and I could see that it looked like it had found the right files, so I shelled out $40 to activate the product and it worked for me. I'm not crazy about the interface, however. The user interface is kludgy at best - it only lets you preview six at a time (it found over a thousand). But, I got my photos, so I'm happy enough. If anyone has any recommendations/suggestions for better/alternate software, please post in comments.
Posted by Rob Kiser on July 22, 2008 at 8:58 PM
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Rob, thanks for the information. This happened to me once with a Sony stick and I never took it to the level you did; I just wrote-off the loss. What were the symptoms of the loss?
Posted by: John on July 23, 2008 at 3:19 AM
John,
I put the CF card in an external USB 2.0 high speed card reader. Then, I used WIndows Explorer to move the files from the card to a folder on my NAS Buffalo Terastation. Then, I moved the files again from one folder on the Terastation to another folder on the Terastation. When all was said and done, I noticed that the last 30 or so images were missing. I'm not exactly sure what went wrong, but I think that from now on, I'll copy as opposed to move and verify that I'm not missing any images, then delete them from the CF card.
Posted by: Rob Kiser on July 23, 2008 at 11:43 AM