Memory Card Recovery
It’s
your worse nightmare… you have just taken the wedding pictures or
the new baby pictures and…they’re gone!
Keep in mind the photos are stored on your card as data and
may still be there. What
you may need is memory card data recovery.
Let’s
think thru how the pictures may have gotten lost.
With all the buttons and menus on digital cameras, it’s
possible someone hit the format button. Or the photos were deleted
accidentally or intentionally.
Or maybe the card was damaged or corrupted due to the card
being pulled out while your camera is on.
You can also suffer data loss
due to using the card between different cameras/computers/devices.
Yes, there are plenty of ways
to lose your pictures.
If any
of these happened, there is still hope.
Why? Because your
memory card is a miniature storage device and the pictures were
stored as files. It is
possible to do memory card file recovery.
In the movies you see people recovering files from damaged
computers. Well, it’s
not just in the movies…it really is possible.
In our
example your camera uses SD memory cards so you need to find SD
memory card recovery.
Not a problem. There is
memory card recovery software for your computer and it works on all
types of cards. Some
companies will let you download a trial for free.
If it works, be nice to the company and pay them for the full
blown version. Why?
Because you are grateful and you need to keep those people in
business. They just
recovered those wedding pictures!
Here
are a few suggestions if your important pictures have disappeared
from your memory card.
First, set the card aside and don’t try to add or delete anything.
Second, either download software from a company like
CardRecovery or take the card to a professional photography store.
These guys have had more than one professional photographer
come in after a wedding in a full blown panic because the pictures
disappeared. They are
experts at photo memory card recovery.
So don't lose hope. Memory card recovery could be just a
search away.
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