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- ornj0
osx, never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever work off the server. Make sure you are always working with a local copy.
- xenicon0
disk warrior for mac has never failed me.
acescence
(Feb 9 07, 09:42)
- st33d0
On winXP you can solve this with restoration.exe
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/R…
I'm having trouble trying to find an analogue for OSX. Does anyone else have any leads?
It would be the first safe bet and personally I could use it for future reference.
- meok0
Dirty, the photographer is the idiot who didnt back up before sorting. (me)
- dirtydesign0
The photographer doesnt have original files?
- mirrorball0
You on a Mac or PC son?
- rson0
Also the longer you wait the chances of recovering slim down
- xenicon0
scratch that, use disk warrior
- canuck0
I know you can recover deleted files from a camera memory card, as long as you don't start shooting on it again. When you erase the memory card, the data is still there technically, it just blanks out part of the data or something. I remember seeing something on techTv about recovey. There is a software program you can download for recovering.
Should be same on your external hard-drive I would imagine?
- xenicon0
http://software.techrepublic.com…
pile of win here
- meok0
Thanks for the sympathy guys. Im on osx btw, I'll try out that disk recovery software someone mentioned. Reshooting is not really an option due to time and budget. My last resort would be to use the pictures that didnt make the cut, as those are still there. But that would suck, big time.
- rson0
Dont shut down your machine. Your files are still there you just need recovery software
- acescence0
it's entirely possible, and quite likely, that the files are still there, just the reference to them is gone from the catalog. try a disk recovery utility. you didn't mention the platform, but disk warrior for mac has never failed me.
- lvl_130
same thing exactly hiatus. it sucks.
and yeah what pye said. you don't want to overwrite any of the file nametags cause the n it will be permanently gone. that has also happened to me several times where there are so many files being opened, saved and resaved on the netowrk that it starts reusing the id tags and hence starts overwriting other peoples files. also not fun!
- blastofv0
JPG is a compression format, so if you go from raw or tiff to JPG, you're corroding the original quality of the digital image. if you're concerned with really really fine image quality, don't use the JPG format at all.
and I second the data recovery option. the files are always there (unless you overwrite the HD space as mentioned). but what costs more? data recovery or reshooting?
good luck!
- DeviceUnseen0
can you take your machine to an apple store or pay the $50 to et the phone support? There might be an utility that they can run to restore the files.
- tomkat0
sorry to hear : /
that's why I alwaysalways copy, check and delete source afterwards
esp on Win machines
- emptyempty0
thanks jaline :-)
- emptyempty0
That's photocopying.
You know...that thing on paper.
harlequino
(Feb 9 07, 09:30)Haha! I know but does jpegs etc are the same? even though it's not noticeable?
- pye0
I saw this happen to a few people back in my tech support days. If you're willing to drop some cash, data recovery places like http://www.ontrack.com/ are often able to recover deleted files. For now, don't write anything new to the disk (you don't want to overwrite the blocks on the HDD where the pics were previously located)