Digital Cameras: Get Back Deleted Photos, Even If You've Formatted Your Memory Card

Sometimes it’s just too easy to erase photos from your digital camera. It’s as though the designers made this easy for themselves when they were testing the design. One or two button presses and that third rate photo has disappeared. The snag is, that means it’s a bit too easy to remove a photo instead of saving it, to be later transferred to your computer or passed around the internet. Or worse still, you’ve formatted your whole memory card. Bother!

Now, if that was on your computer you’d just open up the recycle bin and restore the photo you’d just deleted in error.

Unfortunately, you can’t normally do the same on your digital camera. Does this problem mean that the photos you took so much time taking are now just digital dust?

Fortunately, the answer is “no”.

But you need to be cautious. Camera memories work much the same way as hard disks. The available files in the menu are ones that you haven’t deleted. But the filing system hasn’t actually scrubbed all the data that makes up the photo. Instead, it’s just given itself a note that the space is available to be used again.

Which means if you’ve deleted a photo in error, stop doing anything with your camera until you’ve used a program to undelete the photo.

There’s a simple piece of software that you can download which will come to the rescue.

It’s as simple as hooking up your camera to your computer as you’d normally do. Then click the “next” button on the software. You can watch a demo of how this works here.

The undelete photo software works to retrieve individual photos, complete memory cards (for instance, if you’ve accidentally formatted your memory card) and has a high success rate even if your photo memory card has become damaged.

That’s all it takes to recover all your precious photos from your camera.

You can download this easy to use photo recovery sofware here.