Had a scare

[AGoldenTouchPhotography]

Last Saturday I had three shoots and the second was a three hr party. I used different cf cards for each shoot and the party filled a 4gig and part of a 2gig card.
Sunday morning I went to stick the party card into the card reader and for some reason I thought it was crooked ( I swear I must walk around leaning to one side lol) and I pulled it out and stuck it back in. BIG MISTAKE and I knew it as soon as I did it, sure enough it said the dreaded "no images".
After throwing up, breathing into a paper bag for a few minutes and even threatening to hang myself, I regained my composure and downloaded a few different card recovery programs. The first two did nothing and the third found two pictures, I was getting ready to call the client when I decided to go to the card website and see what they had to help.
Thank goodness I did, they had a recovery program for deleted, formatted and corrupt memory cards. I had to pay but it turned out to be a wise buy as it was able to recover 650 images (raw and jpeg) and there ended up being only one image that was damaged/only half recovered.

[teedlepeep]

Glad you kept your wits about you and were able to recover the shots !!! Really good thinking.

[windrider86]

oh man, that was a huge relief!!

[SusanH1970]

Oh, man....reading that story gave me the willies! So glad you were able to recover the photos!

[TSouthern]

Can you tell me what program you used to recover your images? My Mother in law and her youngest took a school trip to washington DC in may and she lost all her images this way and while we knew there were programs out there to try we have no clue where to start...

[AGoldenTouchPhotography]

Of course! I just didn't want my OP to look like some kind of spam.
Software - Image Rescue 3.0
You can buy the downloadable version and do it right away, just follow the directions with the card in the card reader.
Good luck, I hope it works for you. There are free ones you can find by entering memory card recovery into google. I tried Pandora, some testdisk program and one other before I spent the money on this.

[Jennifleur79]

Glad you got it sorted Kate, it sounds like a nightmare

[AndCity]

Scary! That feeling you have at the very moment you know you've done something wrong is awful!