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Originally Posted by BSelinger
I took about a hundred pictures with my Fuji 2400Zoom camera. They were stored on a 64MB SmartMedia chip. I accidentally erased all of the pictures without realizing it. I took six more pictures before realizing what a stupid thing I had done. I immediately pulled the chip from the camera.
Are my hundred pictures gone forever? Is there any way to recover or undelete them? Even if the six new pictures copied over six of my old pictures I would still like to recover 94 pictures if I can.
Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
BSelinger
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Bad luck on doing that - but you're not alone. It's happened to everyone at some stage or another.
One thing I notice is that you're using a Fuji. If you used the camera to delete the files perhaps by using the "Delete All" function, and if my own experience with a Fuji6800Z is anything to go by, you're going to have to be prepared to accept you've lost them all.
When I did it on the 6800Z the camera overwrote every single byte on the card with a zero rather than have it simply mark the space that the images took up as being free for further use. I did a lot of research with it when it happened because I really didn't want to lose what I'd taken but every single program I used to examine the card, even a bit-by-bit examination of the whole shebang, reported that it was full of zeros and nothing else. No data therefore no pictures to recover. Sadly, that was confirmed in the newsgroups and if memory serves me correctly, it was also somewhere on Fuji's website though buried in the technical material they publish.
I hope for your sake that it's not a standard Fuji method of deleting data from memory cards
Sadly, even if the data is still on the card, you can't be sure that your six new images will simply overwrite six old ones. It's strongly possible that you'll lose more than that.
If it's possible to recover the files then I found that one PhotoRescue was brilliant. It costs about $25 I think it is but it does give you the chance to start recovery at different sectors on the card and in my own case, that was very useful. And that's another case, not with the Fuji but with an SD card that mis-behaved and by using PhotoRescue I recovered all 245 images that were on it.
Hope that helps.
Recovering deleted pictures from memory card?
Bad luck
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