Good Fast Free Image Recovery?????

[merock]

I have never lost a photo file ever, but for some reason, I seemed to have lost a whole directory, and the sad thing is, is a magazine wants to publish one of the images from it..... I'm sure it will come up some how if I do a Image recovery, so does anyone have any recommendations? Of course, if Leopard was out, this wouldn't be a problem, but it's not, so it is..... And I don't want anyone preachin to me about backin up files either.... I know this, I just hadn't got around to doing this one yet Help? Please?

[bondarnes]

Good, Fast, Free......... Pick two. ... Sorry about your trouble. I have never had an entire directory disappear.

[Cope]

My PC died last Wednesday, and I bought a new Pavilion with Vista Home Premium. After getting all set up, I attached my old HD and copied all of my documents. Saturday morning I showed my wife some recent jpegs. Saturday night, over a dozen had disappeared. Sunday morning I realized that 3-4 Excel spreadsheets and about a dozen Word docs were also gone. I did some checking, and one guy at DPR said he had lost over 200 jpegs on his new Vista box. I now run a backup at 7PM daily. I would have had 2 day old copies ov the missing files, but Friday I formatted the old hard drive to use for back ups.

[kenw]

I've used PC Inspector/Smart Revcovery with good results for files lost on C:, external drives, and flash cards.

www.convar.de

(German site, English-language version available)

[srwatters]

Merrick, I don't think the other replies will do much good since they didn't see or understand your reference to Leopard means you're on a Mac and not a PC.

If the volume is an Apple native file system, the odds of you getting back files is pretty low. UNIX file systems, unlike the PC, don't use the same file allocation and cluster linking. I haven't found anything that is free, but I did run across this program that you might want to check out: http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm

They do have a demo you can try.

Good luck.

[merock]

Thanks for the replies everyone! The crazy thing is, I loaded photo rescue onto my computer to test out the demo version, then I looked at the icon for the application and realized I had seen it before. Then I was like, I think I might have that application on my other computer.... Then I thought.... wait a minute.... I think I might have the whole directory on my mac mini too.... Pluged her in, started her up, and low and behold, sitting on the desktop in all it's glory, the folder with all of the files!!!!!!! So happy