Lost photos downloaded
Posted 07/09/2010 - 17:20
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Normally files are not "deleted" on any media. When you "delete" the file you are simply telling the drive or card that it can overwrite that particular storage segment. If the segment is not overwritten the recovery software can still read the data. You was lucky.
Davex.
Davex.
Posted 07/09/2010 - 17:22
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When a computer erases a hard disk or memory card it usually only erases the 'directory' which tells the computer where each file is located. Only a 'full format' (as opposed to a 'quick erase' or something similar) will wipe the data itself.
Your shots from a year ago were probably on a part of the card you haven't used since then. If you had completely filled up the card some time this past year then you wouldn't have been able to recover the year-old shots as the space they occupied would have been overwritten by newer images.
Your shots from a year ago were probably on a part of the card you haven't used since then. If you had completely filled up the card some time this past year then you wouldn't have been able to recover the year-old shots as the space they occupied would have been overwritten by newer images.
Tim
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Posted 07/09/2010 - 17:30
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Only a 'full format' (as opposed to a 'quick erase' or something similar) will wipe the data itself
Only a 'full format' (as opposed to a 'quick erase' or something similar) will wipe the data itself
Not actually true Tim, a full format removes the directory entries and also scans for bad sectors, which are noted in the directory. The data is only erased when one deliberately writes other data into a particular sector, this is what "wiping" software does.
Davex.
Posted 08/09/2010 - 10:09
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Very interesting. I now understand what happens.
Thank you one and all for the input. It is clear that if photos are accidentally wiped then recovery should be made before the card is used again, as the re-use will overwrite what was there before.
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I have a recovery programme on my computer which not only recovered the "lost" shots, but also those taken a year or so ago when I used the same card back then (I have quite a number of cards I swap around on a regular basis).
If I had already downloaded the shots from the card and then formatted the card in the camera how could a recovery rogramme recover such so-called erased shots ? Are they in fact in a separate section of the card "for ever" ?
Can anyone let me in on the secret ??