

Recovery software for photos works best if you use it as soon as possible after an accidental delete/reformat/system crash. After what can often be quite a lengthy scanning process, the software will display all the files it's able to recover, and it's then just a matter of selecting the files you want to restore, and where you want to save them. Instead, only the file index is deleted, fooling the camera or laptop (opens in new tab) into seeing a blank card/drive after a reformat and allowing it to overwrite the 'deleted' data.ĭata recovery software can work its magic as it's able to see past the missing index file to the ghosts of the old files and folders once stored on the memory card or hard drive. When a camera or computer reformats a memory card (opens in new tab) or hard drive (opens in new tab), rarely does it really delete the actual data, and the same goes for when you manually delete a file.

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