Rescue photos off memory cards with PhotoRec

Jun 28, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

There are a lot of good tools out there to restore data from corrupted memory cards but most of them are for Windows. I remembered using an open source command line tool for this purpose. It is called PhotoRec and is cross platform as well. Although their web site has detailed instructions on how to use the software I still wanted to share my straightforward procedure for doing so on a Mac (you are still doing it at your own risk).

Here is a summary of the step-by-step procedure.

After it's done you'll see the window similar to the one below. You can close the Terminal. Your photos will be placed in Downloads/testdisk-6.11.3/darwin/recup_dir folder. If everything was OK of course.

For more details, including screenshots of the procedure, see my blog entry about this.

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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