[TomBoyNI]

Hi there, joined you guys after seeing you at the gadget show and hope someone can help me get my photos back from it!

Here is my question, I took a load of photos this weekend across a number of days, now I have plugged the camera in, there are a load missing from random parts of the weekend.

So for example I was at the Gadget Show Live, and have loads of photos from the exhibition halls missing, but all of the ones from the live show are there?

Also I have photos from in Birmingham, some are there then some are missing, but photos from before and after the ones I have noticed missing are present?

If that makes any sense and any one can point me in the right direction I would be grateful.

I am using a Mac and have tried using 'Disk Drill Media Recovery' I have also tried 'Remo Recovery' it finds photos I have taken ages ago, and have since formatted the card however , none of the ones I know to be missing are in there?

I am using a Panasonic TZ7, with a Transcend Class 10 Memory card in it.

The photos were definitely there, as I reviewed them when I took them, and I have even taken a photo of the screen of the camera on my iPhone as I was tweeting a photo I took. So the photos were definitely there. This photo is also one of the missing in actions ones, but as you can see it did exist...

It is weird as it seems sections of photos are missing.

When I plugged in the memory card it imported the photos and they are file named in sequence, no numbers in the sequence are missing. So are photos named at the time of importing, or the time of taking. As if it is at the time of taking it is like they never existed.

I know this hemp request is written poorly but it is hard to describe and once again...

Help please

[shotokan101]

I would probably suggest that you backup everything you can currently see on the card to your PC - and then try a run of something like Recuva from here :-

Piriform - Download

to see if it finds any of the AWOL piccies

Jim

[TomBoyNI]

Originally Posted by shotokan101

I would probably suggest that you backup everything you can currently see on the card to your PC - and then try a run of something like Recuva from here :-

Piriform - Download

to see if it finds any of the AWOL piccies

Jim

Thanks for that, unfortunately Recuva is a WIN application it seems, I have tried Disk Drill and some others, but nothing appears to be on the card?

[shotokan101]

I'd have a go at Recuva using a windows PC - not sure how well the Mac tools would recover files from a camera card which is basically seen as a Wondows FAT or NTFS file system....

[TomBoyNI]

Originally Posted by shotokan101

I'd have a go at Recuva using a windows PC - not sure how well the Mac tools would recover files from a camera card which is basically seen as a Wondows FAT or NTFS file system....

I'll give that a go then, gotta be worth a shot, although the programs I have tried all have recovered the same things, do you happen to have any idea if the photos are named at the time of importing or taking, as I find it strange that the sequence of files imported is a sequential number list (i.e no gaps where the missing photos should be?)

Thanks for the reply

[shotokan101]

Originally Posted by TomBoyNI

I'll give that a go then, gotta be worth a shot, although the programs I have tried all have recovered the same things, do you happen to have any idea if the photos are named at the time of importing or taking, as I find it strange that the sequence of files imported is a sequential number list (i.e no gaps where the missing photos should be?)

Thanks for the reply

Files are named as the pictures are written to the card - if I browse my camera cards directly from the PC I see the image files under the DCIM subfolder structure.... of course your import software may be renaming the files on import - what filenames are you seeing once imported ? (not all the names just one will do to see the syntax) .

Jim

[TomBoyNI]

The files that the camera imported are :

P1020609.JPG

to

P1020716.JPG


Thanks for the reply

[shotokan101]

Those look like pretty normal camera jpg filenames to me so not sure what's going on TBH...

Jim

[simonblue]

Have you tried importing them from a card reader,instead of the camera to your pc

[shotokan101]

Originally Posted by simonblue

Have you tried importing them from a card reader,instead of the camera to your Mac

[simonblue]

oop Mac

I alway just import to the computer with a card reader

[TomBoyNI]

Originally Posted by simonblue

Have you tried importing them from a card reader,instead of the camera to your Mac

That is from a card reader, sorry never mentioned that, I have never used the data cable way before, wee card reader always worked well, but I have since tried the cable and no joy, just the same photos there too.

Thanks

[simonblue]

Yep does seem very odd,as you say the photos are their on the card,and you can view them on your camera.

[TomBoyNI]

Originally Posted by simonblue

Yep does seem very odd,as you say the photos are their on the card,and you can view them on your camera.

No no, they are not on the card. They were but have disappeared from it somehow

[simonblue]

Not sure where to go from here,if you got a computer shop near you, they made do a recover service,worth a go

[Peakoverload]

Only thing I can think of is that they somehow got saved to the cameras internal memory so have a look on the camera to see if they are still there. This could also explain why the file naming appears continuous as it's possible that it the camera keeps a separate numbering sequence for internal memory photos.

There's no need to use a PC as a Mac is perfectly capable of reading and writing to FAT32 and can read NTFS (which the card wouldn't be formatted as anyway).

[ravinderrainger]

after reading above post, set camera to clipboard, playback, and discovered photos i never knew were there. you learn something new everyday

[TomBoyNI]

Originally Posted by ravinderrainger

after reading above post, set camera to clipboard, playback, and discovered photos i never knew were there. you learn something new everyday

You sir are an absolute legend! There they all are!

If I was a woman and you were a man or if I am a man and you are a woman I would / will have your babies!

Thanks you sooo very much indeed! :thu mbsup: