Where the @#%$ are the Digital Pictures?!
Posted on 01 04, 2009 under Doodads, Technology, The Manual by reviewdad | CommentsIf you haven’t had that freak-out yet, at some point you will. Trust me. And it sucks!
Here’s how the scenario played out for me:
Day: Son’s 2nd birthday.
Subject: Awesome birthday party Mrs. ReviewDad spent months planning and weeks working on.
Highlights: ChooChoo Train theme. Handmade decorations. Train cake made (and decorated) totally from scratch. 30 friends, family and kids.
Extenuating Circumstances: ONLY person taking pictures that day = ME!!!
Trauma: 11:15 pm, put memory card into computer, ZERO pictures.
WTF: 2GB card is Full! So where the @#%$ are the digital pictures?
The answer is that your missing digital photos are probably there…you just need to know how to get to them when the regular means fail you. And you don’t need Geek Squad or some other professional to get them back.
I learned this the hard way. Here, briefly is my story:
Now I know a thing or two about computers, memory cards and how to find stuff but these missing pictures were nowhere to be found. In a fit of desperation, lack of clear thinking and burdened by the hollow commitment I made to the Mrs. that I’d “fix this,” I marched into MicroCenter (local hard core computer center) the next day for tech support. Their thinking – bad card, their solution – their digial media recovery service…for $100. A Frankin was a lot to swallow but well worth the cost to recover priceless birthday memories! I got all 263 pictures back.
Disaster was averted but then, the next week, with a different SD card, the same damn thing happened again (I have since come to blame Vista)! Thinking more clearly this time, I…of course…turned to Google. After a few minutes of hunting, I found a potential solution – a little program called CardRecovery by WinRecovery Software. Free to demo, CardRecovery found all 65 missing pictures PLUS 1752 others…that’s right – every picture I’d ever taken on that card (why you should reformat your digital media is another post)! As soon as I saw what CardRecovery could do, spending the $39 for the license was a no-brainer. It’s your reserve chute!
Digital photography is great. Losing your digital pictures is not. But if you do, Noodads, you don’t need to lose your mind or empty your wallet. Give CardRecovery a chance!
Noodad Rating: 5 out of 5 Noos. It pwns!
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