subject: Do's And Don'ts While Recovering Deleted Pictures [print this page] In today's digital era when almost every analog device has switched to digital, professional photographers have also switched to digital cameras. There are so many benefits of digital photography for users. Digital camera provides more flexibility, high picture quality and many more advanced features for photographers. But it's been usually seen that photographers come across photo loss situations at regular interval. Corruption of storage media is the most common reason behind this. Whenever this happens photographers find themselves in deep trouble. So to overcome this disastrous situation they go for nothing but a card recovery tool to recover the lost photos.
Since selecting an appropriate tool is an onerous task. You have so many options but have to choose the perfect one. One need to consider following points while selecting the recovery tool:
It must be compatible with every digital camera brand.
It must be compatible with every type of image format such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP etc.
It must be compatible with every type of storage media such as hard drive, external hard drive, memory stick etc.
It must be read only tool so that it doesn't modify the original content.
Do's while recovering photos:
These are the points that you have to keep in mind while recovering photos :
Always use card reader to recover lost photos, videos from memory card.
Use an advance card recovery tool which does not modify your original data
Software should work on windows and Mac machine as Mac machines are largely used by the photographers.
It should be easy to handle and user friendly in nature so that even a non computer geek can install it on the system.
Perform following steps to recover deleted photos:
Install the recovery software in your system.
Select the drive to scan.
Start scanning by clicking on 'start' button.
Select the files to be recover from the scanned list.
Recover selected files by clicking on 'restore' button.
Save recovered files at defaul or somewhere else in your drive.
Don'ts while recovering photos:
It is highly recommended that don't do any type of overwriting on the disk before using the recovery software. Overwriting may occupy the space used by deleted file and eliminates the chance of recovery. So stop doing any further activity on the disk.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software is the most comprehensive software to use in such type of circumstances. It not only recovers the deleted or lost photos but also the deleted audio and video files of any format. It is compatible with every type of storage media. It recovers the deleted photos in just three recovery steps: Select , Scan and Save. It works for both Windows and Mac machine.
