File recovery brings back lost digital image files.
Staring at an error message on your digital camera can make your heart skip a beat. For a brief moment you wonder if all the photos saved on the postage-stamp sized card have disappeared into cyberspace. Rest assured, the magic of photo recovery software can successfully recover images from memory cards that display errors during the playback mode on the digital camera, or when loaded onto a computer.
Types
Photo recovery software and services can recover images from all types of digital cameras, including SmartMedia cards (SM), MultiMedia Cards (MMC), SD cards, compact flash and memory sticks.
Strategy
Turn off the camera as soon as an error message appears. If the digital camera or computer program says "no image files found" on the media, but you know files exist, do not attempt to take shoot new photos with that card. Any new images captured after the error message will write data over the top of the missing files, causing them to become corrupt during the file recovery process.
Features
Unless the camera memory card has been physically damaged, a photo recovery of the lost images files saved on the card preceding the error message is possible. Expect to pay a fee for file recovery service at photo processing retailers. Some stores charge per file recovered and a separate flat rate fee for performing the service, even if no files surface during the recovery. Some camera manufacturers offer free photo recovery software as part of their instructional software package included with the camera purchase.
Benefits
Photo recovery software can save time and alleviate worry. Some photographs preserve the memory of once-only events. A successful photo recovery brings those memories back. For subject matter that could be photographed again, camera memory card recovery saves the photographer from spending the time and effort of a reshoot.
Warnings
Avoid future needs for camera memory card recovery by turning off the camera before removing the media card, storing the unused media card in dustproof plastic cases and refraining from deleting individual images from the memory card in the camera. Repeatedly removing the card from the camera to insert the card into a card reader also causes error messages. If the camera allows transfer of files from the camera directly to the computer via a USB cord, choose that option.
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