Lost All my Photos!! Help

[outnumbered]

Well, yesterday evening I thought would do some cleaning uo on my laptop. I do things blindly, just dumping downloads, photos etc anywhere. I was quite proud when after 3 hours of deleting, merging and moving my photos etc were all nice and tidy Now, this morning when I looked most of my photos have gone. It looks like it is my most recent ones
I have checked every single folder, photobucket and recycle bin but I always empty this anyhow. Am I missing something, if I have deleted them could they be hiding somewhere or are they really gone ?

[Skwoddy]

www.recovering-deleted-files.net/

mebbe?

[outnumbered]

:)Thanks, I will have a go tonight

[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

You have on your computer 'system restore' but I am not sure if it will also get pictures back for you

[GothicLord]

system restore won't undelete personal files like photos, it only restores system files On the good side I can tell you (being the geek I am) that the files although you have deleted them are still there on the hard drive, just the names removed from the system.

This is something I learned while studying computer forensics, it's the reason the police can retrieve files, even when people think they have deleted them and they are gone.

Before you go any further tho, I have to ask, have you emptied your recycling bin?? if not you can open it and find the files you want, the restore them.

[OneDay]

Goth she says she always empties the bin ^^^^ :-[

[GothicLord]

lol my bad the software above may work for this, but I have never come across a free file recovery software that allows you to recover more then about 10-20 files before you have to buy it. Unfortunately all the stuff I have requires quite a training session to use, as it is professional forensic software

Give skwoddys link a go, if it is restricted to a set number of files, let me know, and I'll see what I've got in my collection that would be easy to use

[Skwoddy]

They could also just be hiding tbh. you say you left it ok?..

Are they all in a generic format eg. .jpeg .jpg?

Try opening a command window and do a system wide search, iirc the command to type would be 'find *.jpeg /s' - without the apostrophes or the same command with different file extensions .jpg .jpeg

just typing the 'find' command would give you a list of switches and attributes to define your seach eg date processed, names of files etc

[outnumbered]

Oct 8, 2012 14:12:42 GMT Skwoddy said:

They could also just be hiding tbh. you say you left it ok?..

Are they all in a generic format eg. .jpeg .jpg?

Try opening a command window and do a system wide search, iirc the command to type would be 'find *.jpeg /s' - without the apostrophes or the same command with different file extensions .jpg .jpeg

just typing the 'find' command would give you a list of switches and attributes to define your seach eg date processed, names of files etc

I would like to try this but sorry I am lost. I know it is me and not you :-[

[Deleted]

first and easiest thing to do is go to your search box and type jpg


in many cases when you have deleted the pics will still be somewhere on the hard drive ,

there are some free hard drive recovery progs that will recover X amount of files

[outnumbered]

Oct 8, 2012 14:12:42 GMT Skwoddy said:

They could also just be hiding tbh. you say you left it ok?..

Are they all in a generic format eg. .jpeg .jpg?

Try opening a command window and do a system wide search, iirc the command to type would be 'find *.jpeg /s' - without the apostrophes or the same command with different file extensions .jpg .jpeg

just typing the 'find' command would give you a list of switches and attributes to define your seach eg date processed, names of files etc

Sorry, I don't know. what format they are in or how to find out. I think I will just have to face that they are gone and be more careful in future. What annoys me is it was all the ones I took last week and this was the first time i uploaded them from my camera, yet the older ones are still there. Thanks again for your help and time

[Deleted]

I used this prog last time I needed to recover

www.z-a-recovery.com/

[Ratfinkz]

Try searching for jpeg/jpg anyhow as most phot o's are that format!

[Skwoddy]

Oct 8, 2012 19:59:16 GMT outnumbered said:

Oct 8, 2012 14:12:42 GMT Skwoddy said:

They could also just be hiding tbh. you say you left it ok?..

Are they all in a generic format eg. .jpeg .jpg?

Try opening a command window and do a system wide search, iirc the command to type would be 'find *.jpeg /s' - without the apostrophes or the same command with different file extensions .jpg .jpeg

just typing the 'find' command would give you a list of switches and attributes to define your seach eg date processed, names of files etc

Sorry, I don't know. what format they are in or how to find out. I think I will just have to face that they are gone and be more careful in future. What annoys me is it was all the ones I took last week and this was the first time i uploaded them from my camera, yet the older ones are still there. Thanks again for your help and time

You have tried the 2 programs listed here?

Also, are they not still on your camera?

[outnumbered]

I tried one of the programs and my laptop just keeps crashing. >
I wish I knew what i was doing wrong. I will check my camera but i know i uploaded them because I saw them on my laptop, so they shoudn't be on my camera anymore.