I Gone Done Something Stupid

[Sven]

I routinely open up the pictures on my memory card in my photo editing program, then save them to my PC.
Took a couple quick pictures this afternoon for an email and I did the above.
Then send the orig pictures on the mem card to the trash bin, upon ejecting the card, my PC asks me if I want to delete them.
I click yes. No big deal, do it all the time.

Today I wasn't thinking, I automatically high lighted the the two I was working on and the other 200 taken yesterday. And hit send to trash.
Then deleted everything in the trash bin before ejecting. By the time I realized what I just did, it was too late. They were all gone.

Tried a recovery program, it came up with about 300 but, not the 200 from the day before.
And Saturday I was going to save all those photos to a file folder on my PC for safe keeping so they could be edited Monday.
Good thing they were not trip pictures, just product pictures I can reshoot.

I won't be doing that again.

 

[Roscue2]

n/t

 

[Jonnny]

Try it again after a restart and a day or two.
the recovery program may have been not reacting correctly dues to dates on the images compared to dates on the PC.

After a dy or two it may be a different result that the recoverys software then recognizes


Had a similar issue and also used a coupld of differnet pieces of software.
One found and recovered thing that the other had not recognized and then on another issue the opposite were true

 

[Romanf]

The reason the recovery program cannot recover the files is that the newer pictures over wrote those older files. That is the normal procedure. When you delete a file on the card and then put new pics on the card, the old ones are gone. I always download my cards to a file on my computer as a backup just in case. You can always delete that file at a later date.

 

[Sven]

Re-shot all the pictures.......................they turned out better..............