Image rescue program for Mac - is it legit ?

c.hammett said:

After downloading four 1GB cards of images from Greece with
absolutely NO problems, suddenlly the fifth card showed no images
on the Mac screen. I took the card out and put it in the camera
and got the "no image" message on the LCD of my 20D. I had
verified that the images were there before I put the card in my
Lexar card reader. I tried the same thing with three more
additional cards and the same thing happened.

So I put a fresh card in the camera and shot a few images which
displayed on the camera LCD and then downloaded flawlessly into my
Mac. So I know the problem isn't with the camera, the card, the
card reader or the computer.

I posted this on the 20D forum and the Retouching forum, and got a
reference to this recovery program :

http://bermangraphics.com/coolpix/recover.htm

I went there and downloaded the "trial version". It ran several
scans, and indicated that it had recovred images but wanted a
password to show me the thumbnails. To get the password, I had to
pay the $29.95 fee. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't flyl with me.
I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, and in my thining, a
"trial version" is just that. It seems to me that you should be
able to see what it can do before you pay.

Am I wroing ? Does anyone know if this is a legit "reseller"?
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good recovery program that
works on a Mac ?

I'm devastated, and KNOW that the images are on the cards. I
edited my images every evening and they were definitely there when
I left Greece. Can security zap images ? It was pretty rigorous
in Frankfurt airport.

carolyn
--
Ranger a.k.a chammett
http://www.pbase.com/chammett

'elegance is simplicity'

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Scott Weierich said:

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/

They will give you free previews and will refund your money if you
are not able to recover. I have used this program on my Macs
several times. I now own FileSalvage (latest version) which does
much MUCH more than just pics, but it is $89 on disk or $79 for the
download. They DO have a Trial Version available to download. It
has paid for itsel MANY times over especially when a file has been
deleted by accident as well as several flakey CF cards with 100's
of pics on them!

http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=1

c.hammett said:

After downloading four 1GB cards of images from Greece with
absolutely NO problems, suddenlly the fifth card showed no images
on the Mac screen. I took the card out and put it in the camera
and got the "no image" message on the LCD of my 20D. I had
verified that the images were there before I put the card in my
Lexar card reader. I tried the same thing with three more
additional cards and the same thing happened.

So I put a fresh card in the camera and shot a few images which
displayed on the camera LCD and then downloaded flawlessly into my
Mac. So I know the problem isn't with the camera, the card, the
card reader or the computer.

I posted this on the 20D forum and the Retouching forum, and got a
reference to this recovery program :

http://bermangraphics.com/coolpix/recover.htm

I went there and downloaded the "trial version". It ran several
scans, and indicated that it had recovred images but wanted a
password to show me the thumbnails. To get the password, I had to
pay the $29.95 fee. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't flyl with me.
I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, and in my thining, a
"trial version" is just that. It seems to me that you should be
able to see what it can do before you pay.

Am I wroing ? Does anyone know if this is a legit "reseller"?
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good recovery program that
works on a Mac ?

I'm devastated, and KNOW that the images are on the cards. I
edited my images every evening and they were definitely there when
I left Greece. Can security zap images ? It was pretty rigorous
in Frankfurt airport.

carolyn
--
Ranger a.k.a chammett
http://www.pbase.com/chammett

'elegance is simplicity'

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--
Scott

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Scott Weierich said:

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/refund.htm

Again, I have used this program and while it did work just fine, I
moved onto FileSalvage as it actually recovered about 10% more
pictures AND it can recover dozens of other file types and even
deleted files if they have not been overwritten with other data.

Hope this helps. If you buy PhotoRescue, I encourage you to buy it
through DataRescue due to their guarantee.

Scott Weierich said:

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/

They will give you free previews and will refund your money if you
are not able to recover. I have used this program on my Macs
several times. I now own FileSalvage (latest version) which does
much MUCH more than just pics, but it is $89 on disk or $79 for the
download. They DO have a Trial Version available to download. It
has paid for itsel MANY times over especially when a file has been
deleted by accident as well as several flakey CF cards with 100's
of pics on them!

http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=1

c.hammett said:

After downloading four 1GB cards of images from Greece with
absolutely NO problems, suddenlly the fifth card showed no images
on the Mac screen. I took the card out and put it in the camera
and got the "no image" message on the LCD of my 20D. I had
verified that the images were there before I put the card in my
Lexar card reader. I tried the same thing with three more
additional cards and the same thing happened.

So I put a fresh card in the camera and shot a few images which
displayed on the camera LCD and then downloaded flawlessly into my
Mac. So I know the problem isn't with the camera, the card, the
card reader or the computer.

I posted this on the 20D forum and the Retouching forum, and got a
reference to this recovery program :

http://bermangraphics.com/coolpix/recover.htm

I went there and downloaded the "trial version". It ran several
scans, and indicated that it had recovred images but wanted a
password to show me the thumbnails. To get the password, I had to
pay the $29.95 fee. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't flyl with me.
I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, and in my thining, a
"trial version" is just that. It seems to me that you should be
able to see what it can do before you pay.

Am I wroing ? Does anyone know if this is a legit "reseller"?
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good recovery program that
works on a Mac ?

I'm devastated, and KNOW that the images are on the cards. I
edited my images every evening and they were definitely there when
I left Greece. Can security zap images ? It was pretty rigorous
in Frankfurt airport.

carolyn
--
Ranger a.k.a chammett
http://www.pbase.com/chammett

'elegance is simplicity'

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--
Scott

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TraceyS said:

Worth every penny i paid for it.

You should be able to see what it will recover before you have to
buy it.

Tracey

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Scott Weierich said:

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/refund.htm

Again, I have used this program and while it did work just fine, I
moved onto FileSalvage as it actually recovered about 10% more
pictures AND it can recover dozens of other file types and even
deleted files if they have not been overwritten with other data.

Hope this helps. If you buy PhotoRescue, I encourage you to buy it
through DataRescue due to their guarantee.

Scott Weierich said:

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/

They will give you free previews and will refund your money if you
are not able to recover. I have used this program on my Macs
several times. I now own FileSalvage (latest version) which does
much MUCH more than just pics, but it is $89 on disk or $79 for the
download. They DO have a Trial Version available to download. It
has paid for itsel MANY times over especially when a file has been
deleted by accident as well as several flakey CF cards with 100's
of pics on them!

http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=1

c.hammett said:

After downloading four 1GB cards of images from Greece with
absolutely NO problems, suddenlly the fifth card showed no images
on the Mac screen. I took the card out and put it in the camera
and got the "no image" message on the LCD of my 20D. I had
verified that the images were there before I put the card in my
Lexar card reader. I tried the same thing with three more
additional cards and the same thing happened.

So I put a fresh card in the camera and shot a few images which
displayed on the camera LCD and then downloaded flawlessly into my
Mac. So I know the problem isn't with the camera, the card, the
card reader or the computer.

I posted this on the 20D forum and the Retouching forum, and got a
reference to this recovery program :

http://bermangraphics.com/coolpix/recover.htm

I went there and downloaded the "trial version". It ran several
scans, and indicated that it had recovred images but wanted a
password to show me the thumbnails. To get the password, I had to
pay the $29.95 fee. I'm sorry, but that just doesn't flyl with me.
I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, and in my thining, a
"trial version" is just that. It seems to me that you should be
able to see what it can do before you pay.

Am I wroing ? Does anyone know if this is a legit "reseller"?
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good recovery program that
works on a Mac ?

I'm devastated, and KNOW that the images are on the cards. I
edited my images every evening and they were definitely there when
I left Greece. Can security zap images ? It was pretty rigorous
in Frankfurt airport.

carolyn
--
Ranger a.k.a chammett
http://www.pbase.com/chammett

'elegance is simplicity'

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--
Scott

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Chato said:

http://www.ultimateslr.com/memory-card-recovery.php

It's a good site.

I'm not a big fan off Data Recovery, although it DOES work. I
prefer a simpler program called
Photo Recovery.

Dave

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c.hammett said:

I downloaded the trial verson from datarescue and here is what I
got from a 512 mb card. It appeared to rescue everything, but I
don't understand what it is showing me. Here is a screen shot of
most of the data they trial version gave.



Does this mean that only the three images shown (not all shown on
the screen shot) are all that was rescued, or is this just a sample
? What are ".trashes" ?

thanks guys... this looks good, but I hope it rescued more than 3
pictures off a 512 mb card. I didn't want to put a 1 GB card in
the reader because if it is damaging the card I didn't want to risk
anyting more than the smaller card.

carolyn
Ranger a.k.a chammett
http://www.pbase.com/chammett

'elegance is simplicity'

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rjackb said:

I use Lexar's Image Rescue and it has always worked great for me as
long as you use the high-level search. My copy came on a CF card
but I'm pretty sure you can go to their web site and download a
copy for free.

Jack

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geoduck said:

.trashes is the Mac's (probably the Finder's) internal name of the
database that lists all the files that have been dragged to the
Mac's trash and "emptied" during some time span. Excuse my
pedantry here, but when a user empties the trash basically the
trashed files are actually being flagged as erasable. But due to
how space is reallocated on a hard drive (or a flash memory card),
those trashed files are often intact for quite a while. Long enough
for a recovery program such as PhotoRescue (which use and like) to
locate and copy back to a safe area of your hard drive.

The drive letter is just a shorthand approach for PhotoRescue to
generically designate a device where your card reader is connected.
This follows a Windows (actually DOS) approach to naming drives,
including CD/DVD devices. So, you hard drive can be called drive
C:, your CD/DVD drive D:, and the card reader E:.

Hope this helps.

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