Christmas Day a time of taking family photos and returning home to load them onto the computer that is until for reasons Santa does not even know, you cannot access the photo files at all. I might have been tempted to take the memory card outside and shoot it after some sobbing and but it down to fate, misfortune and the failings of technology but a quick search via google I found PhotoRec for Ubuntu.
It is a console based program - dont panic :) - but has a easy to use menu interface.
To install
apt-get install testdisk
Insert your misbehaving SD / MMC card then open a console and type
sudo photorec
PhotoRec should then display all your storages disks on the system. Look for the SD / MMC card, select it and proceed.
The next bits are simply menu choices such as
The program will report to the console on how many files it has recovered along with information such as how long it expects to take. Any files it is able to recover will be
saved to the location you picked.
In my case not only did PhotoRec recover a 128 Christmas photos previously lost it also recovered a further 282 photos which had been deleted from the memory card previously.
One thing to note, in my case, the console ceased to report progress after some considerable time (30 mins) despite indicating an estimated 10 minutes to completion. Depending on how bad your SD / MMC is, you might need to stop the program if there is no further progress (like in my case) despite the drive on the SD /MMC flashing. This wont affect any recovered photos since PhotoRec saves the recovered photos as it goes along.
It is a console based program - dont panic :) - but has a easy to use menu interface.
To install
apt-get install testdisk
Insert your misbehaving SD / MMC card then open a console and type
sudo photorec
PhotoRec should then display all your storages disks on the system. Look for the SD / MMC card, select it and proceed.
The next bits are simply menu choices such as
- the partition table type for a SD /MMC select None
- the file system in use on the storage medium
- where you would like the recovered files to be saved
The program will report to the console on how many files it has recovered along with information such as how long it expects to take. Any files it is able to recover will be
saved to the location you picked.
In my case not only did PhotoRec recover a 128 Christmas photos previously lost it also recovered a further 282 photos which had been deleted from the memory card previously.
One thing to note, in my case, the console ceased to report progress after some considerable time (30 mins) despite indicating an estimated 10 minutes to completion. Depending on how bad your SD / MMC is, you might need to stop the program if there is no further progress (like in my case) despite the drive on the SD /MMC flashing. This wont affect any recovered photos since PhotoRec saves the recovered photos as it goes along.
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