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iPhoto 2.0 warning about Erase Camera Contents
Authored by: ptwithy on Jan 16, '04 03:41:01PM

iPhoto 2 did this to me just recently, not due to disk full, but because it hung in some other fashion. My photos disappeared off my compact flash card.

If you are comfortable with the command line and have the developer tools installed, this URL gives you a free solution for recovering the images:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/oskin/saveimg.html

But I also wonder, since the CF card is just a DOS file system, if any old disk 'undelete' tool would work to recover the images?



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iPhoto 2.0 warning about Erase Camera Contents
Authored by: Anonymous on Jan 16, '04 04:34:17PM

Yes indeedy. I did it a couple years ago. A local private school decided to make coffee mugs for the parents with their kids picture on it. They rounded up all the kids and we had a photographer who took 2 to 3 digital photos of each kid. I received a call later that day from the photographer who said she had accidently erased ALL the photos. Rather than call the school and admit we were idiots, I drove over and tried Norton, and was able to unerase every single photo.



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iPhoto 2.0 warning about Erase Camera Contents
Authored by: outofcontrol on Jan 16, '04 08:22:01PM

Well darn,

If I had half a brain and was thinking, I could have saved 52 really great Christmas images of my kids because iPhoto did an import and deleted the images on the flash card. Only problem is that the photos never appeared in iPhoto or anywhere else.

I will know for next time about this. Thank you very much for this knowledge!



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