Hello, I would really appreciate if someone can help me figure out this issue.
I have a Canon camera, and I was using their softare package last week. One part of the software that comes with the camera is a program called ZoomBrowser EX that lets you operate the images on the camera by using the program installed on the computer. My memory card was full, so I thought using the softare would be a great way to delete the pictures, however when I hit delete, the software did not delete the pictures from my camera, rather the ones on my computer. I had at least 15,000 pictures, so you can imagine I am dying of frustration.The pictures are not in my recycle bin, so I cannot simply undelete them I have tried to use several file recovery programs which did not work, however Recuva found the files. The problem is, once I have recovered the image files onto my computer, (I used a USB flash drive installation, so as not to recover them onto the same drive as the software), I am unable to open the images. I am running Vista, and Windows Live Photo Gallery is unable to open the pictures, it says "The file may be unsupported, damaged or corrupted".
I was very excited to see Recuva find the files, however I am unable to open them. Can anyone help?
Also, I noticed that Recuva 'ignored" some files while it was scanning the drive..what does this mean? That I will not be able to recover them whatsoever, or that there were too many files found, to recover at one go?
I appreciate any insight about Recuva or even the Canon software, Thank you!
