Folder Gone

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO FIND OR RECOVER A PICTURE FOLDER? I HAD PICURES OF MY NEW BABY AND NOW THE WHOLE FOLDER IS GONE? THANKS FOR THE HELP!!!:cry

 

I would start by doing a search for all pictures on your computer. Start>Search Click pictures,video then check the box for pictures. You may want to use advanced options and choose dates under "when was it modified" to narrow the results if you have a lot of pictures on your computer. That should tell you if they on the system somewhere.

If they are truly missing Restoration program might be able to find them.

 

What Kind Of Restoration Program? I Tried System Restore, But It Didn't Work.thanks!

 

You'll need to save important things like that to a CD,DVD, or an exteranl drive, preferably more than one place. Too many times there is a hard drive failure and everything is lost, unless you can shell out some serious cash to get the information recovered. Do you remember the name of the folder? If it got deleted by mistake there are file recovery programs here that might be able to help, but that is a hit and miss thing, depending on if the file has been overwritten, and how effective the program is. Almost all of my picture files have the .jpg extension, with a few .TIFF and .bmp. Did you use camera software like Kodak, or Windows Scanner and Camera Wizard to download the pictures from your camera to your PC? I sure hope you find them...
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I Used Zoom Browser Ex To Upload The Pictures Thats What Came With The Camera It Had A Jpg Extension I'm Still Not Having Any Luck.

 

If it got deleted try a file recovery program, and hope the information didn't get written over.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5532
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4407
The first one is probably the better of the two, and both are free. Check in your Program Files (Start, My Computer, Local Disk C, Program Files) for the folder that Zoom is installed in, probably not in there, but it's worth a try. Maybe they are stored on the Internet somewhere? Got this from this thread.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-1800.html


Save/backup your images by copying them from C:\Program Files\Canon\ZoomBrowser EX\Program\Image Library One folder to your 'My Documents' folder.

1. Go to [Start], [Windows Explorer], double click on [C:] then [Program Files] then [Canon] then [Zoombrowser EX] then [Database] or in some cases if there is no [Database] folder double click [Program].

2. Locate your database files (these will be files with your database name, usually 'mydatabase' followed by .dat, .idx and .zdb) and delete them.

3. Remove and reinstall Zoombrowser.

4. The next time you go into Zoombrowser add a new image library ([File] [Add Image Library]), and use this to manage your files.

Hope it helps

 

Make sure you do this:
Save/backup your images by copying them from C:\Program Files\Canon\ZoomBrowser EX\Program\Image Library One folder to your 'My Documents' folder.
before you do this:
2. Locate your database files (these will be files with your database name, usually 'mydatabase' followed by .dat, .idx and .zdb) and delete them.

 

Something that hasn't been mentioned so far is that if the folder has been accidentally deleted and you need to use recovery software, you REALLY should avoid using the hard drive that the pictures are on. Using that disk makes the possibility of the pictures being overwritten much more likely. DO NOT ALLOW A DEFRAG TO RUN OR ANY OTHER PROGRAM THAT MAY MAKE LARGE CHANGES TO THE CURRENT FILE LAYOUT!!

What you really need to do is see if you can get hold of another hard disk, even if it's only something as small as a 1 gig so that you can install Windows or whatever you use on that (what are you using?) and then you use that as the master drive and the one with the pictures on it is "slaved" to the other disk drive.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads38.html is the link to a file recovery program that is well regarded.

I assume you checked the recycle bin? And run a search for files called *.jpg with a date of modified within the last 2 months (or whatever is an appropriate time frame)?

If those pictures might be somewhere lost on that hard disk drive that you're on now, shut it down without doing something else and use another disk to run the operating system and recovery software from. And as someone else said, make sure that you save the pictures to another disk drive if they are found, otherwise some of them may be written to a part of the drive where there are other pictures to recover. So that 1 gig drive needs to be big enough to hold the operating system, the file recovery program and the missing pictures.