You may have noticed (or not), that I haven’t posted a photo for some days now….usually this is due to my laziness/busy-ness. But not this time. I stupidly formatted my camera memory card, erasing several days of photos I thought I’d downloaded. What a duffer!!
Thankfully my far-too-smart hubby came to the rescue. He’s a software engineer, and has on more than one occasion (three to be exact), saved my poor memory cards. He has found a wonderful little open-source piece of programming that will recover information stored on deleted or formatted files. He had to amend the script a touch to get the program to look for RAW files and not jpg’s. Clever. Thankfully he recovered EVERYTHING I lost. YAY!
He’s planning on putting his amendment and the original source-code on his website Insyte Solutions in the coming weeks. It’s not a GUI program (aka, there’s no window, it’s used from the command line) – so I guess only people familiar with scripting/command line will really get it. Very useful for those who do understand it though!!
The source-code itself is called SAVEIMG. It’s aimed at Unix/Linux users.
I will be back to post the previous weeks’ photos in the next day or so.
