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Help! Software needed to restore deleted photos???

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springtimeishereagain · 07/05/2022 22:02

Ds has reformatted an SD memory card for his camera, not realising that it would wipe all the photos on it. 🙄

Can anyone recommend any software that can find and restore deleted JPEGs from an SD card? 🙏

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HarrietSchulenberg · 07/05/2022 22:05

I've used Wondershare in the past and got my photos back.

springtimeishereagain · 07/05/2022 22:14

Filmora Wondershare? That takes me to a video editing website, nothing about file recovery...

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AlternativeCarpark · 07/05/2022 23:42

I've used Recuva before to do exactly what you need. If nothing else has been done with the memory card since the reformatting then there's a good chance of getting back the files. There's a free version you can try. Also a paid version (which may be needed depending on how much there is to retrieve).

recuva.en.softonic.com/

springtimeishereagain · 08/05/2022 12:37

Thanks. Tried that but nothing. He just told me he's taken more photos after deleting the old ones. I think that makes it harder to recover deleted data as its now been overwritten??

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AlternativeCarpark · 08/05/2022 17:47

That's a pity. You're exactly right, the overwritten data cannot be found as easily, and a clean recovery is a lot more difficult for anything that may be found as the original data will have been 'corrupted' by the new files created.

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