Photo Tip: Oops! Where Did the Files Go?

Have you unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your thumb drive or memory card? Lost data, fear not! There are several recovery tools out there, some fairly priced. I recently came across a FREE application recently reviewed by a tech podcast I listen to that can easily reconstruct the lost data and it's called "PC INSPECTOR - smart recovery" (Google search result #1).

I've tried it out myself on a compact flash memory card that was formatted and I was able to recover the images off of it. I've even recovered images that were deleted off the card several months old ago.

I haven't had to use this application in a real world situation but it's comforting to know that it's available when I do accidentally push the delete/format button by mistake.