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Best Flash Card Recovery Utility? - Buzz - 03-31-2008
friend got a few too many raindrops on her Nikon DSLR, and several hundred photos on her CF card went MIA... got most of them back w/ a slightly older version of Photorescue. what's the current state of the art for photo/data recovery off of flash media these days? is it all OS X based? or are there any ancient classic/OS 9 utilities that can be dredged up that might work well and be lurking on one of the vintage machines around here somewhere? (btw- her Nikon is off to Nikon corporate tomorrow for professional cleaning and restoration) thanks,
Buzz
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Re: Best Flash Card Recovery Utility? - Paul F. - 03-31-2008
I found this useful earlier this month when I needed to do some recovery..
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
But I don't know if it's any better or more complete than what you've already tried.
Probably can't hurt though!
(MGS_forgot password pointed me to this one).
Re: Best Flash Card Recovery Utility? - silvarios - 03-31-2008
You want PhotoRec. Here's a little blog post about PhotoRec and NEF (Nikon RAW) files.
Nathan
Re: Best Flash Card Recovery Utility? - silvarios - 03-31-2008
Paul F. and I are on the same page.
Nathan
Re: Best Flash Card Recovery Utility? - thermarest - 03-31-2008
Michael Richmann at Luminous Landscape believes PhotoRescue is the best available.
www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/aa-07-worked.shtml
Re: Best Flash Card Recovery Utility? - C(-)ris - 03-31-2008
There is always SanDiskRescue Pro as well. It comes free with the Xtreme III cards.
Re: Best Flash Card Recovery Utility? - BobC - 04-01-2008
I've used Exif Untrasher for jpeg recovery (simpler), and photorec for full card recovery of jpeg and mpg files (more thorough).