Prevention is better than Cure – one can’t beat the age-old adage.The time stamp details are especially very handy to identify the files to be recovered. Switching to the Advanced view provides more details on the files. Hopefully you would never have a need to use it … The below gives the overview of recovery once installed. With out further ado, the tool that came to my rescue was Recuva(can be downloaded for free here) and worked flawlessly. May be if I had shot another 300 more shots, I doubt if I would have been any to recover anything at all from the previous day.
Not sure if I was plain lucky or the compact flash file structure is so organized, I was able to recover most of the those shots, if not all. Surprisingly, data does not truly get deleted, unless it is overwritten by something else (or if any explicit purge software is used). When I was going thru to the shots later, I was shocked to realize that most of the sunset shots from the previous day was missing. Little did I release that there was a set of 200+ shots that did not make it to the laptop from the memory card. I went ahead with the morning shoot and also did the hike to Abiqua falls during the day. Made some quick data moves to external Hard drive, restarted the copy operation, completed, wiped the card clean and was back on the road in no time. In the morning, when I was about to leave, was a bit frustrated to see that the program had aborted due to lack of space on laptop. Not having patience to wait till it completed, I hit the bed. Connected my trusted canon 7D and started the automatic download. Just then realized that my memory card (Compact Flash) was full from the day’s travel and I have not copied out the same. Having sneaked in a sunrise shoot for the morning at the Tulip fields, I was eager to hit the bed.
By the time I got out the plan / directions charted out, it was way past midnight. I still had to sketch out a plan for the next day hiking, in the near by silver falls area. It was either too late or probably most parts of the files were messed up, that recovery was not possible.Īfter that sunny day at woodenshoe Tulip farm, we hit the hotel room, at about 11 PM. In past, though different scenarios, I never had been successful in recovering any worth while data. Over the years of shooting, switching cameras, upgrading laptops, moving large chunks of data across hard drives – I have had my share of mistakes and data losses.
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