I have many different tools in my aresenal for photography but this new tool I purchased today saved my butt! I had alot of shoots last time I was home, used up all my cards twice over so when I realized that somehow I had managed to put a bunch of much needed images in the recycle bin without realizing it and then emptied that trash can I must admit I panicked! I tried to recover from all 6 cards I have but very quickly realized that I had already overwritten those files because I had so many shoots while I was home, more than usual! Normally I make duplicates of everything on my external harddrive but somehow in the mayham I guess I forgot to do that for this series of images. I had put them off because they weren't really needed right away, had plans to work on them while I was on the road as they are part of a design I am working on for a client and the design isnt due until August. Well I was definitely panicking, I didn't want to have to ask to reshoot the images-wouldn't that just make me look like a total unorganized idiot! I must admit this is a first for me, I've never ever done anything like this in the 5 years I've been doing photography. I guess there's a first time for everything right?
So I went on the internet and after a ton of searching and a ton of misses-downloading recovery software only to not be able to tell if the software had actually found my missing files because I didn't know the file names for the missing files or the series of numbers my camera would have given them when I uploaded them to my labtop before they went astray. After 9 hours of searching I found a software called Stella Pheonix Photo Recovery. What a difference from the other 5 softwares I had already tried and put off buying because I wanted to be sure my images were there before spending money. Would have been even more upset paying and then discovering the software hadn't found the files I needed so badly.
This software actually shows you previews of the files-I was searching for RAW files; Nikon NEF files and it actually showed me previews of all the NEF files it found so I could tell right away that it had indeed found my missing files. But it finds much more than that-mp3 and files, folders etc. Anyway long story short I paid $39-best $39 I ever spent-and got my missing files back! Sooooooooo happy!!!!!! The software even finds files you've deleted from your trash can. Definitely a must for any photographer in my books.
It can be purchased here and it is on sale right now!
http://www.nikoncamerarecovery.com/
Stay tuned for more photography tools I love and use on a regular basis...
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