If you’ve ever accidentally pressed the “delete” key on your digital camera, you’ll know the heart-sinking feeling that your photo has been lost forever.
It’s almost as if modern cameras were designed to help you lose your favorite photos.
Fortunately, there is an answer to this problem: Photo Saver.
This neat piece of software has just one purpose in life: recovering photos from your camera’s memory card.
Even if you’ve deleted them or accidentally formatted the drive or (even worse) the card has become corrupt.
The program is simple to use.
Just link up your camera to your PC or put the memory card in the appropriate slot.
Then run the software.
Because photo memory cards work in much the same way as computer hard drives, your photos haven’t actually been deleted when you press the delete key. Instead, the space is marked as OK to re-use.
Which is good news most of the time. (Of course, if you really did want to delete a photo forever, you need to use Photo Eraser to make sure it really can’t be recovered.)
Photo Saver asks you where you want to save your newly recovered photographs and then runs through your camera’s memory card, retrieving all the photos you thought were lost forever.
With the size of today’s memory cards, chances are this will include photos you took weeks or months or even years ago.
Verdict
Photo Saver is an inexpensive, simple to use, program that does precisely what it sets out to do.
If you’ve accidentally a photo or are suffering from a corrupt memory card, it’s well worth downloading and running.
You can download a copy of Photo Saver here.
I’ve just found a similar program that works on Mac’s: Remo Photo Recover Mac.
Comment by admin — April 23, 2010 @ 4:08 pm