Lost Photo/Recovery

[donoreo]

Glad you found them. The most important question has not been answered: what happened in the first place. I would no longer trust that drive. I would be buying another and perhaps a replacement raw drive to stick in that enclosure.

Myself I have a NAS box that sits on my network that has two drives in it that mirror each other. I will also copy to another external drive as well.

[jet_kit]

Well done.
Glad you got your snaps back.
Good result.

[Ashleyj]

Originally Posted by Lensmeister

Thanks all for the help.

Moral of this is: If you use a external drive and you cannot find the files on one PC .. try it on another .. you may find them there!

No, the moral of this story is to have multiple copies of your files.

I keep all my photos on four hard disks, desktop PC, laptop, NAS and a portable USB hard drive. That way if one disk fails I have three other copies to fall back on.

For other business files that I cannot be without I also add cloud storage to the list. I use a service called Dropbox for off-site storage.

If it were me I would buy two disks to copy your photos to. Work on one and use the other as safe storage.

Oh, and if you think it's a lot of work keeping the copies up to date there is a great free program called PureSync (http://www.jumpingbytes.com/en/puresync.html) that will do it all for you.

[donoreo]

Multiple copies is good. I keep copies on the computer and the NAS. I also copy to another drive on occasion and then burn DVDs and take them to my mother in law's house.

[Lensmeister]

OK I have recovered the photos ... I think the reason they disappeared was an accidental deletion.

They're on the 1TB drive now so it's going to take time to weed out the junk, rename, and put into the correct folders etc.

A long few weeks ahead.

Thanks every one

[Ashleyj]

Originally Posted by Lensmeister

OK I have recovered the photos ... I think the reason they disappeared was an accidental deletion.

They're on the 1TB drive now so it's going to take time to weed out the junk, rename, and put into the correct folders etc.

A long few weeks ahead.

Thanks every one

Easily done, which is why I keep multiple copies.

Prevents that heart-stopping moment when you find a folder gone!

[hssutton]

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So you join this forum just to pass on this not so excellent news about image recovery.

Now why would anyone want to pay for image recovery software when there are several free excellent recovery programs on the market and such as Zero Assumption will also recover raw files

[adriaavis2]

Originally Posted by Lensmeister

Hi all,

Hoping someone can help.

ALL my photos from 2000 to 2011 have disappeared.

I have tried using Zero Assumption and UndeleteonClick to recover them. But at this point to no avail.

Can any suggest free software that I can use to recover the photos.

The photos were on a 500GB External drive and I am using Windows XP home.

Thanks all.

If you have backup then its fine. Otherwise you ultimately have to take help of third party Photo Recovery Software. There are several companies in the market which comes with their recovery software, you can use anyone of them however before going for full version,it would be better if you test its free demo version, this will give you idea about how software is working and whether its features are easily understandable by you or not. For more information on photo loss reasons, and its solution you can visit:
http://photosrecovery.co.uk