{"id":903,"date":"2009-02-16T00:32:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T04:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2009-02-16T00:32:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T04:32:39","slug":"recovering-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/02\/16\/recovering-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William borrowed my camera to go on his honeymoon. He also lost the photos with a poorly timed crash &amp; drive reformat. So he wants to borrow the card and recover the data. Thankfully I have not used the camera since he returned it despite thinking I should.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/a_computer_repair_utility_kit.php\">A Computer Repair Utility Kit You Can Run From a Thumb Drive<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like the setup of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgsecurity.org\/wiki\/PhotoRec\">Photorec<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0as it runs through the command line. Navigating the tree was confusing at best. It did recover 1,166 photos \/ 3.62GB for me.<\/p>\n<p>Not trusting a single method, I also tried\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.recuva.com\/\">Recuva<\/a>. That worked a little better. It reported 1,395 files found. However, 177 were unrecoverable. Getting 1,218 pictures \/ 3.78GB back was 52 \/ 160MB better than Photorec. Though many of the &#8220;recovered&#8221; pictures just say: Invalid Image. Maybe they really are Raw?<\/p>\n<p>While trying to use\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapfiles.com\/get\/restoration.html\">Restoration<\/a>, it crashed the first time. Not sure why. It was fine the next time, though it only found 4 photos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Filename:<\/strong> Photorec doesn&#8217;t restore files with anything like the original name. Recuva and Restoration do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meta Data:<\/strong> OSes and image editors know about the EXIF data in pictures. All the Photorec pictures have date taken. Most of the Recuva pictures do. Guess I could see if only 52 pictures are missing the EXIF? That might explain why Photorec lost some of them.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was an fun experiment. I am not curious how these stack up against of the proprietary software? Why pay $40 when these are better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William borrowed my camera to go on his honeymoon. He also lost the photos with a poorly timed crash &amp; drive reformat. So he wants to borrow the card and recover the data. Thankfully I have not used the camera since he returned it despite thinking I should. 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