I went away with my wife for a couple of days to Kew Gardens, lovely time there, but got a call at the hotel from number 2 son saying that he had overwritten his new iPhoto folder on his external HD with an older one, so deleting the pics & videos of his first holiday with my new grandson. I told him not to write anything to his external HD, but where to go from here? When he imported the pics he chose to delete pics from his camera, but the camera's still in the dock. Any chance we could recover the pics from the camera? Any help gratefully received, especially if it calms his wife down.
Kids! Tch.
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ElDiabloConCaca
U.S.D.A. Prime
You could try software such as Data Rescue II, available from versiontracker.com or with a simple Google search.
Barring that, depending on how important the pictures are, you may want to try professional data recovery, such as www.drivesavers.com. Be prepared to pay through the nose, though.
Other than software-based data recovery and professional data recovery, you really don't have much options... the photos are gone... of course, restoring the photos from the backup that you/he keeps regularly would be the easiest course of action...
Barring that, depending on how important the pictures are, you may want to try professional data recovery, such as www.drivesavers.com. Be prepared to pay through the nose, though.
Other than software-based data recovery and professional data recovery, you really don't have much options... the photos are gone... of course, restoring the photos from the backup that you/he keeps regularly would be the easiest course of action...
bobw
The Late: SuperMacMod
Just downloaded the trial of MediaRecover and I could preview about 60 images on my 'empty' flashcard going back a couple of months. For $30 dollars I think my son will be more than happy to get his files back. Thanks a lot. I'll make sure he knows where the knowledge came from, though dad might take a bit of glory too. Thanks again.
On further research the reviews for MediaRecover were very iffy, so we downloaded PhotoRecover at http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/download_mac.htm. Cost £19 inc. vat and we recovered all his holiday images and videos. Now have very happy son and daughter-in-law. Thanks very much for your help, I'd thought they were lost forever.