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Oct 7, 2017 16:24:40   #
mtcoothaman Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
 
After a silly mistake on my part I want to recover some Jpegs from a Lexar card. I have tried quite a few "free " software options. Some identify only useless grey images but others allow me to preview the images I am seeking. A feature of all of them is that the "free ' software is limited to preview and that I need to purchase software in order to recover them. The online purchase price is about $50US. I do not mind paying for intellectual property but to me this amount is a bit excessive especially as they all tout it is free. ( The best I have found is Stellar Phoenix ).

Should I just "suck it up " or is there a way around this?

I would appreciate any helpful comments.

thank you

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Oct 7, 2017 16:33:19   #
jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA
 
search for a program called RECUVA, Have used this and works very well. Free to boot!

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Oct 7, 2017 17:21:54   #
bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
 
jdubu wrote:
search for a program called RECUVA, Have used this and works very well. Free to boot!

Piriform's Recuva works nicely. I also use CardRecovery; a bit more thorough than Recuva.

bwa

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Oct 8, 2017 07:48:03   #
mborn Loc: Massachusetts
 
jdubu wrote:
search for a program called RECUVA, Have used this and works very well. Free to boot!



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Oct 8, 2017 15:54:50   #
aphelps Loc: Central Ohio
 
mtcoothaman wrote:
After a silly mistake on my part I want to recover some Jpegs from a Lexar card. I have tried quite a few "free " software options. Some identify only useless grey images but others allow me to preview the images I am seeking. A feature of all of them is that the "free ' software is limited to preview and that I need to purchase software in order to recover them. The online purchase price is about $50US. I do not mind paying for intellectual property but to me this amount is a bit excessive especially as they all tout it is free. ( The best I have found is Stellar Phoenix ).

Should I just "suck it up " or is there a way around this?

I would appreciate any helpful comments.

thank you
After a silly mistake on my part I want to recover... (show quote)


Have you tried Image Rescue? It is free and I have had good results with it.

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Oct 9, 2017 07:10:35   #
mtcoothaman Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
 
Thanks all. Unfortunately I tried Recuva initially without success. I will keep trying with the others.

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Oct 9, 2017 13:04:54   #
jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA
 
Lexar has a recovery program called "image rescue" I have version 4.

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Nov 23, 2017 04:10:13   #
rrayr2002 Loc: New Jersey
 
Some photos are just plain “Priceless”.

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