Photo disaster

mustbemad

Hi everyone,

I've had a bit of a disaster :sad:

I saved the photos from my hard drive on to a memory card and then reinstalled windows, unfortunately when I went to put my photos back on the computer the memory card had corrupted.

I have managed to recover the photos using recuva on the computer hard drive but it has recovered thousands of pictures of random stuff aswell as my photos . I have got no idea where to start! Is there any way of filtering out the pictures that have no camera information in the exif data?

I'm using windows 7 which is not helping!

MBM x

matttye

Right click in the folder > sort by > more...

There's hundreds of options you can check in there. You can even sort by lens maker/model if your camera fills that information and you use the same camera each time.

mustbemad

matttye wrote: »

Right click in the folder > sort by > more...

There's hundreds of options you can check in there. You can even sort by lens maker/model if your camera fills that information and you use the same camera each time.

Thank you so much! I can't believe there was such a simple solution, I have been googling and downloading different programs all day!

MBM x

macman

In future always back up to optical media or a USB hard drive. Memory cards and USB flash drives are not reliable for that purpose-just for data transfer.
It may be stating the obvious, but once you've wiped your source hard drive, you no longer have a back up any more. You've just got one copy, and if that fails then you've potentially lost your data.