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This story came from some a forum, a guy named Kevin said, "After Christmas, I had many photos from several events at different family functions. In my rush to get everything transferred to several different folders on my desktop, I missed some of the pictures when making the transfers. I then deleted all the files on the SD card. When one of our family members asked for the pictures, I realized my mistake! What can I do about it? Can I undelete photos?"
These things happen all the time. You may make the same mistake as Kevin or may just accidentally hit the erase button on your digital cameras. It's terrible but fortunately you can undelete photos from camera or PC generally.
Why the deleted photos can be undeleted?
The reason why you can undelete those photos from camera or PC is simple. When you delete the photos, it seems those deleted photos are no longer listed on your PC hard drive or camera memory card, but the fact is the pictures still there and can be undeleted. The system simply marks the photos as deleted, but doesn't actually remove it from your system. Those files are only truly deleted (well, replaced actually) when other data is saved to the same location on your PC hard drive or camera memory card. So as long as your deleted photos are not fully occupied by new data, it is highly possible to undelete them.
How to undelete photos from hard drive or memory card?
The best way to undelete photos is still simple by rely on third party photo recovery software.
If you are using Windows Operation System, try Wondershare Photo Recovery. It's an advanced program that can recover photos from hard drive, memory card etc. Moreover, it can also undelete image from iPhone. Preview function allows you to view those deleted photos before they are fully recovered. Besides photos, this photo recovery program can also undelete videos and music.
If you are using Macintosh OS X, then try Wondershare Photo Recovery for Mac the Mac version also designed to undelete photos, videos and music.
Here is a step by step tutorial about how to undelete photos with Wondershare Photo Recovery.
Step 1: Download the free trial version of the photo recovery software on your computer. Install it somewhere other than the disk or memory card that your deleted photos located. If your photos are deleted from digital camera, connect your camera memory card to the computer via a card read or so. Then select the target disk.
Step 2: After selecting the target disk from which you need undelete photos, then select the file type (all, photo, music, and video) and then click the button "Start Scan" to start the automatic scanning process.
Step 3: Save the undeleted photos
After a while you will there will be lots of photos found and all can be undeleted. Preview the found photos to confirm they are right what you have carelessly deleted. Then you need to purchase the software to activate. Click the button "Recover" and save the undeleted photos to another disk. Now your photos are undeleted successfully from your hard drive or memory card.
Tips: To get better chances to undelete photos, you need to stop using the computer disk or camera memory card immediately once you have mistakenly deleted photos.
