How To Get Back Accidentally Deleted Photos From Your Camera

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 unwanted photo is gone forever. Trouble is, it's also quick and easy to delete a photo instead of keeping it, for later transfer to your PC or your Flickr account. or even worse, you've answered "yes" to the question that needed to know if you wanted to format your complete camera memory card contents. Ouch!

Now, if that was on your computer you'd just open up the recycle bin and resurrect the accidentally deleted photo.

But there's no recycle bin on your digital camera. So does that mean that your precious photo is lost forever?

Luckily, the answer to that question is "no".

But you need to be careful. Camera memories work much the same way as hard disks. 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 see the software in action here.

The photo un-delete program can recover single photographs, complete memory cards (in those instances where the card has been totally formatted) and has a high success rate even if your photo memory card has become damaged.

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

You can download this easy to use photo recovery sofware here.