[P1] I accidentally deleted photos from my iPhoto! Pls help!

[Gary Galang]

Thank you everyone for all your help!

I was able to recover 30 out of 75 photos using Robert's suggestion - 
PhotoRescue... I bought the software.... I recovered the photos 
straight from my Nikon SQ digital camera disk... since I already 
formatted the disk after uploading the first batch of photos, I was 
only able to recover the photos taken in the last batch... but it's 
better than nothing. I tried this software to recover files from the 
Mac HD but I was unsuccessful. Somehow it recognizes 3 partitions which 
I did not create, there were images that came up but were not the ones 
I was looking for. I suspect these partitions were created by Norton 
Utilities 8 which I also purchased to recover my files from the Mac HD 
but I was unsuccessful.

With Norton Utilities, I started up the Mac from the CD, used unErase, 
didn't work... I then used Volume recover, my iBook dies while 
optimizing the volume so I had to reboot everytime. I did it several 
ways until I gave up. Perhaps it created the 3 partitions?

Oh well.. I gave up. having Norton Utilities in my iBook is good for 
the future since I'm very careless. Photorescue will be great too if I 
accidentally delete images from my digicam disk.

Thanks for all your help again...

Gary


On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 01:55  AM, Gary Galang wrote:

> Thanks Robert for your help...
>
> I installed Wizard version but it doesn't have the option to choose 
> the HD as the card so I tried the Expert version and it has 2 options 
> - whether to analyze the drive or the file and I chose the drive, 
> however, nothing happens... the OK button is grayed out.... I hope you 
> can help me...
>
> Thanks again...
>
> Gary
>
>
> On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 01:20  AM, Robert Newman wrote:
>
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I hope this comes to you before you do too much else.  You need to 
>> obtain a copy of PhotoRescue.
>> You can get it here:
>>
>> http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/
>>
>> I am a camera repair technician, and we use it to recover lost files 
>> from customer's CF cards.  However, you can also direct it to your HD 
>> and it will recover any deleted files there.  There is a free 
>> download, that will show you the files that it can recover on your 
>> HD, and save them to a special file that you can retrieve when you 
>> register the program.  So if your files are not there, you are out 
>> nothing.  It works great.  The sooner you use it, the better the 
>> chance it will recover them, as as you write to your HD you could 
>> overwrite them.  There is a version for Macs and PC, or a combo 
>> version.  The price is very reasonable, especially in light of what 
>> grief it will spare you now and in the future.
>>
>> Robert Newman
>