BRINGING YOUR          MEMORIES BACK      FROM THE DEAD:           RECOVERING       DELETED       PHOTOS

The technological innovations of the last decade have made the camera an indispensable tool for capturing memories, information, and data in picture or video form. You can take photos or videos and the data is saved on the camera’s SD card – a necessary tool for permanently capturing memories. One of the most often used tools on the digital camera is the delete function, which makes it easier to users to remove unwanted images or videos from their device. Unfortunately, sometimes the delete button is hit when the download button was the goal. So what do you do when you delete your images from the SD card on your camera before you can upload them to your computer? The best method for recovering accidentally deleted images is utilizing SD card photo recovery software.

HOW DOES IT WORK? When you hit the delete function on your camera, you aren’t actually sending your photos into digital oblivion. They are still on your device; they are just set aside and designated as free space. This means that when you take a new photo or video, the camera will see the “free” space and use the space occupied by your “deleted” photo to save your new photo. What does this all mean? It means that until you use your camera again, you can retrieve your photos using SD card photo recovery software and save them from the jaws of death. Each SD card photo recovery program operates differently, but the overall result is the same – you retrieve your lost memories.

TOP THREE PHOTO RECOVERY PROGRAMS Photo ‘undelete’ programs are as plentiful online as pennies are in the streets. Let’s make finding one easier on you and just give you a list of the most recommended programs. Data Rescue PC 3 is an easy to use data recovery DIY. It is usually used to recover software, but it can also be used to recover photos and videos. While it may sound like the program for you, keep in mind that it carries a high cost and is meant for use on Windows supported devices. PhotoRec is a free open source recovery tool that can run on devices supported by all three major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux). While Data Rescue PC 3 is meant for all data recovery, PhotoRec is designed specifically for retrieving photos. If you don’t like to read long and tech-speak heavy README files, you should probably consider using another recovery program. R-Undelelete is the recovery software of the future! It offers users the best of the recovery programs for photos and general data, it works on all operating systems, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to own the full version ($60 at the most if you know where to look). You can probably find a DEMO version of this program that will allow you to see the photos you’d like to recover before purchasing. This allows you to know that you are getting what you pay for. When you accidently hit delete instead of download on your digital camera, don’t panic! The photos are still there patiently waiting for you to resurrect them from the dead.

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