Picture Loss Nightmare !

[Topper]

My computer, as of yesterday has deleted all the pictures i have ever uploaded from my camera and phone into the My Document file ! ! I dont know how many there were but a good few hundred

I spent a good while with our computer geek yesterday trying to find them, we found about 200, but they are about 20mm square and wont resize . All my holiday snaps etc have gone and all picture of my car.....

So, if any of you guys have any pictures of my car, can you give me a shout and i'll give you my e-mail address.

I know this is a long shot, but any help would be appreciated.

Cheers :thumbs:

 

[Nicely]

When you say the computer deleted them, do you mean you did something which caused the computer to delete them, or they just disappeared?

Have you run a boot-time chkdsk? This will often find lost directories and rename then Check001 or similar.

 

[silviac]

Download software called Recovermyfiles and you should be sweet.

It recovers pretty much all pictures but some pictures maybe half recovered so just try your luck.

You can either buy the program or use cracked one

 

[Topper]

Have you run a boot-time chkdsk? This will often find lost directories and rename then Check001 or similar.

Yes i did that this morning, and no i didnt do anything.

All the ones we have found are named like this ~09fer8fg0erg8e9gwe.jpg, i'm told with the wavey line (~) Window has marked it for deleting.

 

[Nicely]

As silviac suggests, get a file recovery program. :nod:

One word to say: backup.

 

[Jono]

Nothing to do with Photoshop installations is it Topper?

 

[Topper]

Hope not mate, i only uninstalled it so shouldnt have effected them.

But does seem to have happened once it was gone

 

[Nicely]

Hmm. That seems a bit too much of a coincidence...

 

[Jono]

 

[Topper]

Managed to get hold of a trial version of Recovermyfiles, and guess what, it found 69,377 items

Some of the Jpeg images are the ones i'm looking for, of course i havent looked through them all at i'd be here till next year p), but i cant do anything with them as i didnt buy the programme

 

[Topper]

How could uninstalling a programme, using add/remove from the control panel have effected them? And not all of them, only the ones filled in folders, the individual images i had and still there.

 

[Nicely]

Oh, what faith you have in Windows Take it from me, it just takes one anomaly in your install/setup for your PC to get shagged when installing/uninstalling stuff, particularly when other stuff is running. I test this sort of stuff everyday...

 

[Topper]

Now you tell me

Well i've managed to secure Recovermyfiles, and am running it as we speak :thumbs:

 

[Nicely]

Sounds like you're sorted :thumbs:

 

[silviac]

one way to sort is that a lot of them would be very small.

Just sort out by size and delete ones you don't want first. I assume they will be less than at least 200kb? Cos normally digital camera takes around 500kb. Well mine is.

Anyway I was shocked when I lost my photos ages ago and I had no idea how to recover so I have no physical memory of a good 3 years. I guess couple of thousand photos.... Well now that was long time ago and I don't repeat that anymore by backing up on CD. A good quality CD. I suggest that too Topper. Actually I will do another back up now It only takes 10 mins and one piece of coin worth but actually priceless

 

[Topper]

They were all very very snall

Just had ur computer guy round, he installed and run 'Easyrecover Proffesional version', found half of the folders i was missing in less than 3 minutes :thumbs: - No car ones though

Thanks for your help dude, unfortunatly i dont have anything to burn with on this comp (works comp), so will keep them at home from now on.

 

[Yakozan]

Cd or even DVD recorders are very cheap nowadays. a DVD-RW writer isn't more then ?50 over here.

Definetly a good investment.