Digital photos lost

[Jemiba]

As some of you may have noticed, last Friday I took photos of some articles
in older magazines, e.g. the one about the Delanne type. At first I thought, I
had missed some pages, but now I realised, that on the storage card of my camera,
there are a number of photos, that seem to be ok, if I just look at the files (name, type,
filesize) but which don't show up in any viewer (ACDSee, IView, Corel Photopaint or Photoshop).
Sometimes I at least get a thumbnail, but cannot open the file.
Any clue for retrieving those photos ? ???

 

[Antonio]

Obviously you should try a photo-recovery software. I have never experienced this problem so I can't recommend you an specific application but I'll do a bit of research. Which is your operative system, Apple or Microsoft?

 

[Jemiba]

I've tried on my PC (Windows) two of them (Recuva, PC-Inspector-Smart-Recovery), but
as the files actually are there and not deleted, without success. Googling brought me the
result, that the reason probably is a damaged storage card and that I could try a professional
data rescue service. But that's quite expensive and as long as I don't find a cheaper solution,
the best is to visit the library once again (with TWO storage cards then ! )

 

[Antonio]

Ok

for the record then, I found this software that seems useful. Both for Apple and Microsoft OS.

http://www.wondershare.com/data-recovery/photo-recovery.html

 

[DSE]

My Lexar cards came with ImageRescue2 and my Sandisk cards came with their version of recovery SW, both work well. Before that I use PCI File Recovery, http://download.cnet.com/PC-Inspector-File-Recovery/3000-2248_4-10118664.html