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Ask DLS: Recovering photos from a corrupted flash card
by Christina Warren Jan 29th 2008
Digital cameras are great, you can store the equivalent of a dozen rolls of film at a time, delete bad shots immediately and download the photos to multiple devices. But like everything else, there can be a dark side (no pun intended) to digital photography: flash card corruption. Many of us have experienced that first hand, where a card that was working normally suddenly appears "empty" or refuses to mount on your system or starts reporting really strange error codes in the camera. If you haven't recently downloaded the photos to your computer, this can make a person positively apoplectic. And let's not discount user error; say, while taking photos, you accidentally format the card instead of deleting that one shot, wiping out Little Granty's trip to the Apple Store (don't worry, that was just an example, we got the pictures for a future Squadcast) in seconds. Whoops.
Of course, with the right software, more often than not, some or all of those photographs can be recovered from both corrupted and reformatted flash cards. A reader wrote in asking for the best options (he wanted free, we try to balance price with "actually working") and here is a list compiled for various operating systems.
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