How To Recover Accidentally Deleted Photos

Sometimes it's just too easy to erase photos from your digital camera. Maybe because your camera's designers wanted an easy way to delete photos while they were testing the design. One or two button presses and that third rate photo has disappeared. Problem is, it's also quick and easy to delete a photo instead of saving it, for later transfer to your PC or your Flickr account. or even worse, you've formatted your whole memory card. Ouch!

If the file was on your PC you'd just open up the recycle bin and restore the photo you'd just deleted in error.

Unfortunately, you can't normally do the same on your digital camera. Does this problem mean that the photos you took so much time taking are now just digital dust?

Fortunately, the answer is "no".

But you need to be cautious. The memory card in your camera is quite a lot like the system on your PC's disk drive. The available files in the menu are ones that you haven't deleted. But the filing system is lazy and hasn't really deleted the file yet. What it's actually done is marked the "deleted" photo's space as ready to re-use..

So if you've accidentally erased a photo, don't do anything else on your camera until you've used a program to undelete the photo.

There's a simple piece of software that you can download which will come to the rescue.

It's as simple as hooking up your camera to your computer as you'd normally do. Then click the "next" button on the software. You can watch a demo of how this works here.

The photo un-delete program works to retrieve individual photos, your whole camera memoryy card (in those instances where the card has been totally formatted) and also has a high rate of success with those annoying errors that can affect memory cards.

That's all it takes to recover all your precious photos from your camera.

You can get this simple photo recovery software for instant download here.