PhotoRescue
Today I came back from a photography day, eager to see some of the pictures I took. I take the card from my EOS 5D, put it in the FireWire card reader, run Aperture, ask it to import from the card and… no pictures. Aaaargh!Nothing, zilch, nada, gone.Total despair.I just let it go for a while thinking that’s life, things happen, it is not that bad, could be worse, was just a few pictures, some people are hungry, etc… but still, I could not really get over it.I decide to run a Google search on the problem and see what I find. Nothing interesting. I run the same search on the dpreview.com forum and there I find a message about how PhotoRescue saved a photographer with the same problem.I download PhotoRescue evaluation, run it, and after working about 20 minutes, it recovers all the pictures I ever took with the camera! It raises some interesting questions about what a formatting by the 5D actually does, but most importantly all my lost pictures were there. Of course, to be able to actually save the rescued pictures, I had to pay the PhotoRescue license, a reasonable $30.Now I wonder about that Seagate 8GB Microdrive. Should I? I am 99% positive I did not make any mistake in the manipulation. Since I bought it Compact Flash cards prices have fallen dramatically so maybe I should just replace it. I don’t know.
