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Free recovery software for photos

playmofire

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 7:02AM

I've accidentally deleted some pjhotos on an SD card. I've found a number of free downloads which allow you to "find" deleted files but not to permanently retrieve them. Does anyone know of a free download which allows you to retrieve deleted files as well as "find" them? My laptop uses Windows 7. I'm wanting to retrieve only about half a dozen photos.

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SparkyJack

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 8:12AM

Havew you tried this one?

enter link description here

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Nontek

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 8:14AM

This direct download will do the business, first make a New Folder on your desktop and then from within the program browse to the New Folder as the destination for your recovered pics. You can stop the program at any point you wish, pics recovered up to that point will still be in your New Folder - you can even open the New Folder during the process and see your pics being recovered.

http://www.rcc-ltd.co.uk/CampicRestor.zip

This will work on any card/flash drive/hard drive, but note that if used on a hard drive, it will also find all the little icons in every program on your hard drive, so you could end up with thousands of images, easy enough though to delete those you do not require, they will still remain on your hard drive, so nothing to fear.

An excellent little program to keep in your armoury.

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playmofire

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 10:36AM

Thanks for the links. The first is one of the "free trial but buy it before you can retrieve your photos" which isn't worth it. The second crashes saying a file is missing. I opted not to install the optional email software, so maybe that's why.

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Nontek

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 10:56AM

Strange, there is no optional email with CampicRestor - are you sure you clicked on my link?

I have just clicked on the link above and it worked fine.

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Confab

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 12:08PM

This one is good.Recuva

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northumbria61

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 12:18PM

I would also recommend RECUVA

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playmofire

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 2:30PM

I'm sure I did click on your link, Nontek. However, I did some moree searching with Google and found this one:

http://download.cnet.com/3001-2094_4-10694796.html?spi=3bf759fdb01152225d94854dcc1ec903&part=dl-PandoraRe

which works very well.

Many thanks to you all for your suggestions and help.

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Nontek

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Posted November 10, 2011 at 3:07PM

OK, thanks for your feedback.

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