It had been a year since our little baby came into this world and our life.
Both me and my wife decided to celebrate my daughter's first birthday by organizing a small get together for our near and dear ones.
It was a wonderful moment for us.
Since the event was quite important for us, my wife thought of keeping the memories alive in the form of digital photos.
We got requests from various friends and relatives to share the event's photos.
One lazy Sunday, I thought of uploading the photos to a social networking site.
I got hold of my camera, inserted the memory card and thought of taking a look at the photos before downloading them to my laptop.
I never anticipated a shock waiting for me.
As I tried to view photos, my camera displayed an error.
I tried several times but nothing happened, and the photos were all gone.
They had gone inaccessible.
I was badly in need of a photo recovery solution to recover lost photos from a corrupt memory card.
I consulted my wife who is a computer technician and she listened to me patiently and finally gave a smile.
I found it all very fishy.
Before I could absorb her reaction and say something, she started explaining me about data recovery techniques and software.
She made me get rid of the anxiety when she shared the fact that pictures were not really gone or permanently lost.
On further discussions, I discovered that lost or deleted digital photos from a storage media can be recovered easily provided you use appropriate applications or programs.
Here is what she explicated to me Photos are stored on a memory card just like other files.
When you delete a photo from a memory card, the index entry related to it gets deleted, whereas, the content or data of the particular file remains at the same location.
The space left vacant by the deleted photo becomes available to be used by another file.
To conclude, the lost or deleted photos can be recovered by using a photo recovery utility before any act of overwriting takes place.
This was a revelation of sorts.
Thanks, to my wife I learnt a great deal about photo loss and recovery.
After winding up the discussion session, we both started scanning various Websites to find an efficient and reliable photo recovery software.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery caught our attention and we tried its demo version which gave us unbelievable results.
We instantly purchased the full version and recovered all photos of our daughter's first birthday with ease.
This photo recovery software has the capability to recover lost or deleted photos from memory cards, memory sticks, hard drives, USBs etc.
Suitable for both Windows and Mac users, this application recovers all formats including JPEG, RAW, TIFF, PNG etc.