I ran the trial and, after about 30 mins examining my 8GB card, it found every single missing file. Luckily it has a trial version that allows you to see whether it can rescue your files before you pay for it.
I did a quick search online, and found good reviews of Card Rescue, a £30 download, that worked on Mac and PC. OK, so I was now starting to get slightly worried.
#Como usar cardrescue pro#
When I got home, I immediately plugged the card into my card reader and ran the Sandisk Rescue Pro software that comes with all Sandisk memory cards. I immediately put the CF card aside, so that I wouldn’t accidentally shoot over it again. I had been out hiking in the desert to an ancient monastery and wasn’t going to get the opportunity to go back there. The key thing is not continue to shoot on that card, to prevent the files form being overwritten.Īlthough I knew the theory, I had never tried it in practice, leading to a rather sleepless night. So, as long as the files are not overwritten with new data, you can, in theory, recover the ‘lost’ files using special software that scans the disk for files that are not in the lookup table. This makes the it think the card is empty, and allows it to overwrite it with new data. They simply reset the table that tells the camera or computer where the files are. Now, when you format a memory card, most cameras don’t actually delete the files. I hadn’t bothered to check the backup completed properly and now had just formatted my card without having a copy on the NEXTO. Sure enough, the NEXTO had run out of space and, being left alone for more than a minute, had switched itself off to conserve battery as it is meant to do.
So it was running low on space and rather than backup each card twice like I normally do, I had only tried to do so once. I took the card out and formatted it in my camera for the next day of shooting.īut when I turned the NEXTO back on to check how much space it had left, I was horrified to see the message “previous copy failed!”.īecause I was simply visiting friends and not on a commissioned shoot, I had only bothered to bring one NEXTO with me, and it was still filled with images from the previous shoot. I got distracted while I was waiting, and after the process had completed the NEXTO had shut down (as is normal).
#Como usar cardrescue portable#
Getting back from a day of shooting in the Judean desert while out in Jerusalem recently (as you do), I followed my usual procedure and backed up my CF cards to my NEXTO portable hard drive.
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