Delete (Erase) a Digital Photo by Accident?
It happens to everyone sooner or later: You accidentally erase an important picture - or worse, an entire folder full of images. Don't panic yet - you may be able to get those pictures back.
The first step: Stop shooting and take the memory card out of the camera. If you take another picture or perform other in-camera operations, you may not be able to rescue any of the deleted files.
Your next course of action depends on whether you erased pictures from your camera or from your computer:
For pictures that you erased using the camera's delete function, go online or to your local computer store to buy a file-recovery program, such as MediaRECOVER. For these programs to work, your computer must be able to access the camera's memory card as if the card were a regular drive on the system. So if your camera doesn't show up as a drive when you connect it to the computer, you may need to buy a card reader or adapter as well.
If you erased pictures on the computer, you may not need any special software. In Windows Explorer, deleted files go to the Recycle Bin and stay there until you empty the Bin. Assuming that you haven't taken that step, just open the Bin, click an erased file, and then choose File --> Restore to "un-erase" the picture. On a Mac, deleted files linger in the Trash folder until you choose the Empty Trash command. Until you do, you can open the Trash folder and move the deleted file to another folder on your hard drive.
Already emptied the Recycle Bin or Trash? You also can buy programs to recover files that were dumped in the process; start your software search at MediaRECOVER.
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The first step: Stop shooting and take the memory card out of the camera. If you take another picture or perform other in-camera operations, you may not be able to rescue any of the deleted files.
Your next course of action depends on whether you erased pictures from your camera or from your computer:
For pictures that you erased using the camera's delete function, go online or to your local computer store to buy a file-recovery program, such as MediaRECOVER. For these programs to work, your computer must be able to access the camera's memory card as if the card were a regular drive on the system. So if your camera doesn't show up as a drive when you connect it to the computer, you may need to buy a card reader or adapter as well.
If you erased pictures on the computer, you may not need any special software. In Windows Explorer, deleted files go to the Recycle Bin and stay there until you empty the Bin. Assuming that you haven't taken that step, just open the Bin, click an erased file, and then choose File --> Restore to "un-erase" the picture. On a Mac, deleted files linger in the Trash folder until you choose the Empty Trash command. Until you do, you can open the Trash folder and move the deleted file to another folder on your hard drive.
Already emptied the Recycle Bin or Trash? You also can buy programs to recover files that were dumped in the process; start your software search at MediaRECOVER.
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