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Recovering lost photos from a SmartMedia card
Authored by: balthisar on Aug 25, '03 11:10:04AM

All thumbs up to PhotoRescue. I went to my parent's-in-law 50th anniversary in Mexico in July with my always reliable Kodak DC4800 camera (that I bought the day iPhoto came out to replace my old, serial PhotoPC 500). I had never, ever had a problem with the "erase photos after importing option" in iPhoto, so I always used it.

Murphy's law is what it is, though, and sure enough iPhoto "imported" everything, erased my compact flash card, and lost every one of our pictures. Thinking I'd have to use a data recovery service, I started Google searches and ran across PhotoRescue. I ran out, bought a Dazzle 8-in-1 card reader, a USB hub (it was finally time, I guess), tried the PhotoRescue demo with my spare 16Mb card (didn't want to futher mess up the 128 with all the photos!), and it worked flawlessly. I bought it, received a registered version in email very shortly, and rescued everything on the card.

Net result: I didn't have to buy plane tickets to Mexico and pay for a re-enactment of the in-laws' 50th anniversary ceremony and reception!

This is one program I hope I don't need again, but worth every penny for even that single use!

Also, it's kind of nice having a compact flash reader that will let me use my Clie's memory sticks. Yeah, I have the Missing Sync, but this is easier for my purposes.

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--Jim (me)



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Recovering lost photos from a SmartMedia card
Authored by: kance on Aug 25, '03 12:27:12PM

Yes, this software helped me recover photos from my card as well. I highly recommend at least keeping the demo installed in case you ever need it in the future.



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