Jpegs but not .raw

Hiya folks, Happy Holidays

Luckily I rarely have to use anything like Recuva, but now I need it and am having problems.

I shoot a DSLR with small jpeg+Raw setting. To make a long story short, I erased and then formatted the CF card in camera.

(thought all the pictures were transfered to the desktop).

So now Recuva does a fine job finding all the jpegs, ignores a lot of files, but not one Raw file shows.

The jpegs are too small to work with and really need those Raw files.

I read help, looked through the forum and tried other settings in actions and on another machine, to no avail.

Any thoughts on this ?

Hi Chuck, and welcome to the forum.

If Recuva isn't picking up the RAW files you require all I can suggest is trying other freeware which might. This probably isn't a failure by Recuva, more a case of the RAW files not being recognized as such. You don't mention the make of your camera but some makers have their own proprietary "RAW" files.

Have a read here for links to some other free software, and in particular PhotoRec ...

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=39946&do=findComment&comment=242629