Just deleted three important pics of my 5D M2, is it lost forever? (1 Viewer)

[Bewick]

By accident, when freeing up space, I deleted a couple of photos from my camera. I haven't used it since, is there any way I can recover these pics.

 

[njlarsen]

There used to be undelete programs that could be run by a pc when the card was connected using a card reader. I assume these programs still exist. It will be important not to take further pictures onto this card before attempting the recovery, because it won’t work if you overwrite the space with a new picture.

Avoiding this situation is one of the reasons I don’t delete individual pictures on the camera, only after having transferred to a PC.
Niels

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello Bewick,
I agree with Niels:

if you havent used the camera (or better the CF card inside), than they are still there= no new pictures are written over them.

So dont use this CF anymore and put another card in your camera. When back at home, try to restore them. There are many free programms available that might well be enough. For example Recuva, available for example here: Recuva

And if the pictures are really important, than there are proffesionals that can recover them for sure (but this is expensive), if and thats most important: you dont use this card anymore (until the lost pictures are back and safed elsewhere)

 

[Bewick]

There used to be undelete programs that could be run by a pc when the card was connected using a card reader. I assume these programs still exist. It will be important not to take further pictures onto this card before attempting the recovery, because it won’t work if you overwrite the space with a new picture.

Avoiding this situation is one of the reasons I don’t delete individual pictures on the camera, only after having transferred to a PC.
Niels.

I have it downloaded but will it work even if I wait a few days to do it? I will be using a spare SD card until my adapters get here.

I have not used the camera since to take pictures.

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello again,

dont panic: as Niels said, just put the card (where the pictures are still there, just marked as deleted) out of the camera and dont use this card anymore.

 

[Bewick]

Hello again,

dont panic: as Niels said, just put the card (where the pictures are still there, just marked as deleted) out of the camera and dont use this card anymore.

Done this, I currently cannot connect the SE card to my computer as I forgot my adapter but it’s being sent by dad tomorrow.

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello again,
than you can sleep well. As said, you can be confident that you can recover the pictures from your card later (but dont use this card again, until the pictures are recovered)

 

[Bewick]

Hello again,
than you can sleep well. As said, you can be confident that you can recover the pictures from your card later (but dont use this card again, until the pictures are recovered)

I won’t and thanks for the help.

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello again,

there are quite a few tutorial videos available that might help you. For example here

I dont know, how good the advertised programm Disk Drill is, but a quick google search says that the trial version is really for free (I think you pay with your personal data. But please dont forget that making a programm is work and the person behind has the right to be paid for it. Different topic I know).

I hope that others with more knowledge jump in. Thanks from me too!

 

[Ignatius]

If you know someone with a Linux machine there is a good chance of getting your images back without purchasing dubious Windoze software.
Good luck.
Further good advice for Linux.

 

[maplekong]

Found the context to you saying you deleted them by accident in the Guess the Bird thread.

 

[Bewick]

Thanks very much, I managed to recover all the photos I wanted too!