I've deleted photos from my camera and have taken photos since. Did the deleted photos get replaced?

Question

I deleted some pictures from my camera and i am an active photographer and have taken several pictures since, im wanting to know if the photos i have taken since, would they replace the deleted photos space, and is there any hope for me to retrieve these photos.

Answer 1

it depends. If the new files used the space of those deleted files, then those files are not recoverable, otherwise, those pictures are recoverable.



You may use asoftech photo recovery (which helped me before) to check whether files are recoverable.



Take out memory card, and connect it to computer using a card reader. You should see memory card shown as a drive letter (like H:) in Windows Explorer.



Download recover software asoftech photo recovery (free). Install and open asoftech photo recovery, select the memory card, and click 'Start' button.

http://www.asoftech.com/apr/

Answer 2

I'm sure you may have heard that when you delete a file from a computer, it is never "truly deleted." That statement, however, is only partly true. The files do not get deleted after, only the space that they occupy on the disk get prepared to be written over. When you reformatted the memory card in your camera, it did exactly that, and only prepared your pictures to be written over.



SO, the first thing you have to do after format is to not save any more pictures onto that memory card or you risk writing over the photo video files that you are trying to recover!



Got that far? Now you need to choose the appropriate camera recovery software. There are a tons of different programs but some are better than others. I actually recommend a program called 001 File Recovery because they have an option that is designed for recovering media files from FORMATTED memory cards, not only deleted or corrupted photo video files. You can download this software here:

http://www.001-software.com/resource/retrieve-back-camera-files.html



Lastly, if the program does not recognize your SD Card as a drive when you are plugging the camera directly into the computer, you may need to directly plug your card into a card reader. Make sure that the card reader has the capabilities to handle your memory card though. Many older card readers can only handle cards up to 2GB, so if your card is bigger than that, you need a newer card reader.



I hope that helps, and that you get your deleted photo video files back like I did!

Answer 3

When you delete pictures (or any files) from a camera memory card or USB memory device the data itself isn’t deleted, just the file system pointers that says where the data for those files is located. The area where the deleted picture data was stored is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead.



If and when that happens, then it is too late to recover your deleted pictures so it is very, very important that new pictures or files aren’t saved to the memory card in the meantime.



One of the easiest ways to see if your deleted pictures can be recovered is to try some photo recovery software.



One tip is to try a trial version of a commercial product that will scan the memory card for deleted pictures and show you exactly what pictures can be recovered as thumbnail images in the preview screen. At least that will show you if you can recover the deleted pictures or if it’s too late already.



You can find more useful information on how to recover deleted pictures at http://www.RecoverDeletedPictures.com

Answer 4

With most digital cameras, when you delete pictures you are simply telling the camera it is ok to overwrite the files that are on the card. Even though you can't view the pictures any more they are most likely still there. If the card was full when you started taking pictures again you will have overwritten old pictures to make room for new pictures. Take your card to a reputable camera store and have them do data recovery on the card or, if you are technically inclined, purchase your own data recovery software and do it yourself.

Answer 5

It depends, flash storage will generally not recycle space immediately.



Recovery is only possible if the media can be accessed as a drive, cameras will often not give sufficient access to internal memory or a card in the camera, so using a USB card reader tends to be more effective.



You need to search, using one of several available programs, plenty are free:



Try a few from the source links, if one doesn't see/recover many (always copy to somewhere else, never back to device you are recovering!), then try another

Answer 6

Sounds like you're in for some serious search time.

Answer 7

There is probably no hope of recovery but you can try http://www.recuva.com and try a deep scan. I had success after doing a low level format on my card.

Answer 8

You've deleted them.

You can't get them back - even if you hadn't taken new photos.



Sorry.