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So, I recently went out of town for a competition that I oversee. We hold two competitions a year and for both I brought all my goodies to ensure a well documented and techy time! I had my iPod, my laptop, my GPS, my video camera, and of course, my digital camera. I chose to mostly use my video camera, while I let a friend take pictures on my digital camera. Her pictures were so much better than what I’ve taken in years past, I decided to let her take them at the second competition as well. My plan had one problem, however, my card was almost full, and I didn’t have a spare. No problem, I thought to myself, I can just empty the card onto my laptop, format it, and I’ll be set for the weekend!
I’m always so careful that I had no fear taking care of this menial task. I’m so careful, in fact, that apparently I didn’t feel the need to actually ensure the pictures copied over. When I finally began to sort and burn the pictures to a disk to share with my friends, I find much to my horror, that the folders on my desktop are all empty! Since I had already formatted the card, all I could think of was the many opportunities I had over the past week to save the pictures off the card. Then I remembered that formatted cards aren’t truly erased, they’re just overwritten! I began to search the net for a disk recovery program.
Thankfully, I found one named Recuva (pronounced like “recover”). This wonderful little free (donations accepted) program is from the same people who make Ccleaner. Ccleaner is a program I love and trust, so I immediately downloaded Recuva and put it to work. The program could not be simpler to use. A couple of clicks after the installation, and it was dutifully searching my memory card. I chose to recover every file on the card and sort them out later. Thankfully the only pictures that had been lost were saved months ago.
Recuva also works on your hard drive to recover files that have been emptied from the recycle bin. It’s a wonderful little program that saved my hide, and could help you get out of a jam! I hope you find it as useful as I did. Get Recuva from http://www.recuva.com/
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