Deleted Photo's

Marg

I am gutted - I have accidentally deleted photo's from my camera. Is there any way they can be recovered please?

(The memory was full so I thought I'd delete a few to make space to take a few more, but then, the battery needed charging. I wonder if in my haste, it was removing the battery that caused my other photo's to 'vanish' or maybe just my incompetence........)

TIA

Tiexen

What ever you do don't take any more pics!
what's the make/model of camera?

Marg

Thank you for replying Tiexen

It's quite an old Pentax Optio WP.

sax11

Were they on a seperate card or on the cameras built in memory

if it's on an SD card look for a program called pandora recovery

i had an issue many years ago with a card & a camera from ebay and found not only my old pics i had deleted but also the previous owners images

Marg

Thank you sax11

Sorry I've no idea :eek: I think probably the camera's memory because the message that came up that caused me to try to delete a few said 'memory full' - or similar.

Just noticed your edited reply - I'll have a look - thank you

Tiexen

Can you plug your camera into a computer - do you have a cable?

• 5 MP CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 13 x 17-inch prints
• Stores images on SD memory cards and has approximately 10.5MB of built-in memory

andydiysaver

first thing you do is get a new card for new photos, you want the corrupted or possibly corrupted card out and not being written to any more because the more it is the harder It gets


if the photos are priceless there are data recovery firms out there that can get them back (for price of course) but they'll have less luck if multiple writes are over the lost images - generally when something is deleted, the indexing is deleted not the impression itself which is potentially recoverable - potentially being a word here as I don't want to get hopes up


that said, data can never be destroyed, only lost , unless you're Stephen hawking going on about black holes and even then it's subject to debate


good luck

forgottonhero

dont know if you still need help on this, but the easiest way.

got to piriform.com and download recuva.

put your memory card in your pc and run recuve, choose your card from the list, and enable deep scan, it will brinup everthing that is available to be recovered.

highlight waht you want to recover and save them to a folder on your desktop.

depending on the size of the memory card...it can take a while so be patient.


if the picture are actually on the camera and not a card, connect the camera to you pc with a usb cable and do the same as above.

works a treat

Marg

Thank you everyone for your helpful replies.

I got the photo's back!:j I used Pandora - I didn't find it easy but it was worth it.

Now just need a new disc......

Tiexen

Marg wrote: »

Thank you everyone for your helpful replies.

I got the photo's back!:j I used Pandora - I didn't find it easy but it was worth it.

Now just need a new disc......

Now copy them all onto a memory stick, a backup hard disc, a CDR or a recordable DVD!.... .Flickr.com has 1gig of free space for pics so try that as well.

...and in future always backup your pics as soon as you can: