I did something really stupid. I saw images before and after on my download of my CF card and didn't realize the middle was missing. I always download and delete in camera and never reformat the cards. I have no idea of the 6 cards that I use which one the images would be on. I tried the Lexar Image Recovery software. It found the images that I recently shot but not the missing ones. I have downloaded CardRecovery also and it is again finding the files just shot. I know the file names for the missing images. Is there any hope?

Thank you for any help!
regina

Oh man, haven't we all just been there.

The first suggestion is a free program but it's not really designed for Raw files and sometimes works and always saves them with a .tiff extension. That one is from Art Plus

However when my harddrive went bust and I still had the cards I bit the bullet and bought a program to recover the photos and it worked flawlessly. They even have a demo where you can see what photos it can recover before paying for it. Definately worth it. Check it out, it's from cardrecovery.com

Hope these help!

Bryce

If you erased your card, image recovery software will rescue the erased data. If you shot again on the card after erasing it you cannot rescue the data that was shot over, sorry to say.

what kind of card is it? I just had a corrupted card it was a sandisk and I used sandisks data recovery program. it was like $40.00. I always reformat cards and it actually retrieved about 10 photos that I had shot prior to the recovered job. Usually if you reformat you can't get it back but if you just erased and reshot you might be able to recover. Go to the sandisk website and look for recovery pro.

BTW< it renames the files- mine were renamed raw0001, raw0002 etc

good luck! Let us know if anything works-I am sure others will find it useful at some point

Thanks for your help! I found out that because I had used the card again already that there wasn't any way to recover the images. I did buy the card recovery software but it only found the new images on the card, because the card was full again. I was told later that I could have sent off the card and paid a lot of money and the images might have been recovered. I was driving a lot, over 2,000 miles in 10 days, to get all my portrait sessions done. I was exhausted and totally didn't realize that I was missing about 100 images.

I have a new download system now. Plus, I bought extra cards so that I am not having to reuse them again immediately. Shooting with a 5D, 20 GB of memory cards is not that much. I have added another 8 GB and am not touching the cards ideally until after they are edited. I already had been backing up the images, but without the edit step, it wasn't obvious that a relative few shots were missing.

Here's a free recovery software that I found to work extremely well. Give it a shot, and see if it picks up any extra files.

http://www.pcinspector.de/download.asp?lan...#smart_recovery

Oh I did that once--- was reformatting my computer... at 4am of course... Didn't realise that I had my PCMCIA adapter in - though "oh a 2gb partition... lets delete it"... You can guess where this went...

Doh - PC only....

I bought a stack of Extreme IV's recently and they come with image recovery software- on a tiny CD... Which I'm sure would work fine on a PowerPC - but doesn't seem to work on an intel Mac.... Oh I'm sure they'd also work fine on a Windows box too..

Grrr...