Hey all,

Okay, so I was downloading pictures from my camera to my computer. Somehow, the camera download wizard THINGY froze up...I had to shut it down, but the pictures were in a file on my desktop (I was looking at them while I was downloading). The file with the new pictures I had minimized to my tray and when I pulled it up again, all the files were gone!!! They weren't deleted by me and by then they had been deleted off the camera (I do the auto delete...stupid of me).

What can I do? Is there anyway to find the photos?

I'm using a MS Windows XP and my camera is a Canon IXUS 860. Please help me!!! Those were my baby's photos from her fourth month!!!

Thank you,
SarahI personally don't know of a way, however there are some very, very smart people on this forum. Just wait and some of the Mentors, moderators and specialists will drop by. If no one can help, check out this site: http://www.photo-saver.com/recover/?pu=false&srec=true
I know absolutely nothing about it, other than it costs money.You can use this FREE software... Lab Rats shows an episode not too long ago at www.labrats.tv that shows them promoting this software with a digital camera deleting files and getting them back from the flash stick. This softwareis mainly INTENDED for thumb drives and hard drive data retrieval but it can be used for flash sticks as well.

You can get all the pictures back as long as the memory address of the pictures have not been overwritten with new data or formatted etc.

http://undelete-plus.com/Very nice DaveLembke Thanks...this was too easy to reply to....hopefully it is easy for them to get their pics back in the matter that the data storage addresses ( aka flash cells ) have not been overwritten!Thanks Dave, I'll give it a try and let you guys know how it goes...

~SarahFor the next time try using this: http://www.dealsonic.com/xtgp53usb20c.html. It is just a little thing, but it works like a dream. We bought it when the transfer software on our camera gave up the ghost and have not REGRETTED it since. Just plug it into a usb port and XP recognizes it as a hard drive even without a memory cards INSERTED. Put in a card and the Windows picture VIEWER starts up showing your pictures. You can then save them to your computer, delete them, rename them, anything at all. When you are done just disconnect and slip it into your pocket. It also writes to the memory cards. And for the price you can get 2 or 3 without breaking the bank.

Quote from: Kando on May 23, 2008, 12:07:25 PM

For the next time try using this: http://www.dealsonic.com/xtgp53usb20c.html. It is just a little thing, but it works like a dream. We bought it when the transfer software on our camera gave up the ghost and have not regretted it since. Just plug it into a usb port and XP recognizes it as a hard drive even without a memory cards inserted. Put in a card and the Windows picture viewer starts up showing your pictures. You can then save them to your computer, delete them, rename them, anything at all. When you are done just disconnect and slip it into your pocket. It also writes to the memory cards. And for the price you can get 2 or 3 without breaking the bank.