recovery of deleted pictures

Rotten luck... but the good news is that the files are probably not deleted... they are just inaccessible to your OS. Make sure you don't store any further files on this SD card, or the photo files could be overwritten.

I've not used it myself, but this software:

http://www.recovering-deleted-files.net/recovery-software/digital-photo-recovery

has been used successfully by a friend of mine. There are plenty of others available.

I hope you manage to retrieve the photos.

That's heart-stopping, Chris! Please let us know how you get on!

Reminds me of when I worked in the City in the 1980s. I was trying to delete files off a floppy disk (a proper floppy - 5 1/4") by typing DEL *.*. Didn't work. Tried it again. DEL *.*. Then I realised, I didn't have an A: drive prompt, I was typing at the C: drive prompt. I called the Helpdesk. They arrived within about 90 seconds and un-erased everything. I've never seen them move so fast. And I learned about un-erasing files.

Hi Chris, that's terrible.
I see Mike and Andy replied but I had in the mean time found this, if it helps.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/digitalcameras/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-your-sd-card/1102

I hope you find your lost photos! Fingers crossed!
Sumitra

Thanks all. Super and superquick response. Job done. Used Pareto (cost a bit but I find so-called free software stuffs you computer with lots of nasties)

Great news!!

Hi Chris, well done.  Very glad you got your files back, phew!

Once upon a time I fancied myself as a musician of the digital synthesiser type,  creating my own sound waves, akin to a fusion of Pet Shop Boys and Jean Michel Jarre!  I created many unique compositions, some of which my friends thought were catchy.  Visions of fans screaming played on my deluded mind.   Then storage space was getting to be a problem so I had the bright idea of using a radical compression system called "Zip".  So I zipped my whole creative lifework into one compressed file....you know where this is going now dont you?

Yep, lots of storage space freed up, I thought I celebrate by installing a Lucasart adventure game, (loved the point n click era) .  Then when I tried to extract the files I needed..."file corrupt...cannot proceed with extraction".  I was so upset.  So so so upset.  Dont talk to anyone for a month kind of upset.  It was literally at a low point in my life.  Not just for the fact that I  lost all the music that I recorded and wrote but for the revelation discovery that I was real bonafide idiot.

I sold my synthesiser, my multitrack recorder and everything to do with music.  I took the option of giving it all up instead of continuing to create more.  Which means I never deserved success in that career anyway given my weak "give up" personality.   you dont get far with that kind of attitude.  I wouldnt have got far with Petshop Boys type music anyway!

But as life continued, with just a very very slight trickle of wisdom growth, I realise losing my music served a purpose.  I had become a computer guru and IT administrator and the biggest priority I had made in my computing life and still do to this day was to make sure everyone backed up their work and personal files.  I ensured off-site back-ups, on-site immediate file recoveries etc.  Preaching to friends and colleagues to back up your work.  I know that I have saved a few people's files over the years.  So experiencing the loss of my music was for a good reason  🙂

So guys, back up your precious images 😉

Hi Chris, well done.  Very glad you got your files back, phew!

Once upon a time I fancied myself as a musician of the digital synthesiser type,  creating my own sound waves, akin to a fusion of Pet Shop Boys and Jean Michel Jarre!  I created many unique compositions, some of which my friends thought were catchy.  Visions of fans screaming played on my deluded mind.   Then storage space was getting to be a problem so I had the bright idea of using a radical compression system called "Zip".  So I zipped my whole creative lifework into one compressed file....you know where this is going now dont you?

Yep, lots of storage space freed up, I thought I celebrate by installing a Lucasart adventure game, (loved the point n click era) .  Then when I tried to extract the files I needed..."file corrupt...cannot proceed with extraction".  I was so upset.  So so so upset.  Dont talk to anyone for a month kind of upset.  It was literally at a low point in my life.  Not just for the fact that I  lost all the music that I recorded and wrote but for the revelation discovery that I was real bonafide idiot.

I sold my synthesiser, my multitrack recorder and everything to do with music.  I took the option of giving it all up instead of continuing to create more.  Which means I never deserved success in that career anyway given my weak "give up" personality.   you dont get far with that kind of attitude.  I wouldnt have got far with Petshop Boys type music anyway!

But as life continued, with just a very very slight trickle of wisdom growth, I realise losing my music served a purpose.  I had become a computer guru and IT administrator and the biggest priority I had made in my computing life and still do to this day was to make sure everyone backed up their work and personal files.  I ensured off-site back-ups, on-site immediate file recoveries etc.  Preaching to friends and colleagues to back up your work.  I know that I have saved a few people's files over the years.  So experiencing the loss of my music was for a good reason  🙂

So guys, back up your precious images 😉

akin to a fusion of Pet Shop Boys and Jean Michel Jarre

Sounds like we all had a lucky escape 😉

Sorry, I couldn't resist that!

My friends thought so too, I later found out, the traitors!

Jean Michel Jarre!

Many, many years ago, I was in a record shop in Glasgow. A well-dressed young man asked the aged but kindly sales assistant, "Excuse me, but do you have Oxygene?"

"Why?!" she gasped in horror. "Has someone fainted?"