Recovering files from SD card question

pleasedontdieonmelaptop · Jun 30, 2016

Yesterday I had my camera stolen and I am devastated because it had thousands of pictures on it. A few days ago, I put my SD card from my camera into my computer to view my pictures, but I did not save my pictures to my computer, they were left on my camera. Obviously the camera and SD card with my thousands of important pictures are now gone. This is a long shot, but is there ANY way that when I put my SD card in my laptop the pictures were stored in my laptop somehow, and I could now recover them? I'm desperate to get these pictures back so any help would be appreciated. Any third-party services or ANYTHING at this point because I honestly don't know what to do if these pictures are gone.

USAFRet · Jun 30, 2016

If you did not actually copy them from the card to the camera, no.

Maybe, possibly, look in your temp folder. But I would not put a lot of hope in that.

1N07 · Jun 30, 2016

I'm no expert in file recovery, but depending on what program you used to open the pictures with, it might have some sort of temporary backup function.
That said, if you have closed your PC between now and then things get harder as temporary files would have likely gotten deleted.
There are however programs that can recover deleted files, but even if you could, they would likely have some sort of artifacting or other visual errors as the files could have been partly written over.

If you didn't follow my explanation, or even if you did, the short answer is: It's unlikely you can get them back and even if you could it would likely not be worth the trouble unless the pictures are extremely important and loss of quality isn't an issue.

But like I said, I'm no expert, maybe someone else here can tell you more.

USAFRet · Jun 30, 2016

In future, please, please don't rely on the camera or SD card for any long term storage. At all.
I view those as temporary at best.

Cameras get stolen, SD cards die...A picture (or any file) that exists in only one place may be said to not exist at all.

pleasedontdieonmelaptop · Jun 30, 2016

1N07 :

The pictures ARE extremely important and recovering them in any way, shape, or form would be much better than nothing. Please can you tell me which program I should use to try this?

1N07 · Jun 30, 2016

pleasedontdieonmelaptop :

Well we should first figure out if the program you used to view them even has any backup system.
What did you use? Windows Photo gallery, the new photos app in windows 10, or some other?

I won't spend the whole day figuring this out, but I'll google around a bit to figure out if photo gallery and the win10 app have any backups.

USAFRet · Jun 30, 2016

pleasedontdieonmelaptop :

If they were files that had been copied to the PC, then deleted, there are several applications that might maybe recover them.
Recuva and TestDisk, being two of those.
But since they were never actually copied to the PC, those are unlikely to work. Nor is anything else.

pleasedontdieonmelaptop · Jun 30, 2016

1N07 :

pleasedontdieonmelaptop :

Well we should first figure out if the program you used to view them even has any backup system.
What did you use? Windows Photo gallery, the new photos app in windows 10, or some other?

I won't spend the whole day figuring this out, but I'll google around a bit to figure out if photo gallery and the win10 app have any backups.

I viewed them on Windows Live Photo Gallery, on a laptop with Windows 7. Thanks so much for your help.

USAFRet · Jun 30, 2016

pleasedontdieonmelaptop :

1N07 :

I viewed them on Windows Live Photo Gallery, on a laptop with Windows 7. Thanks so much for your help.

Open Windows Live Photo gallery, and see if there is a "Recent Files" button.
However, that will probably just link to something like "F/MyVactionPic.jpg"
F being what your SD car was when it was plugged in. Now that it is not plugged in...it won't find it.

USAFRet · Jun 30, 2016

pleasedontdieonmelaptop :

That creates a series of Temp folder when used.
However, they are emptied out when you close the application.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/gallery-files/why-photo-gallery-2012-keeps-creating-temp-folder/bedc2e0f-fdad-4b3e-9545-227122a88882?auth=1

1N07 · Jun 30, 2016

pleasedontdieonmelaptop :

1N07 :

I viewed them on Windows Live Photo Gallery, on a laptop with Windows 7. Thanks so much for your help.

From my googling I figured out that Windows Live Photo gallery doesn't store backups of the photos viewed in it. Just some metadata(See USAFRets comments). So no way to recover the pics unfortunately.
UNLESS, you happened to edit any of them. Apparently it does then make a backup of the original file in the program's appdata.

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