How to Restore photos on SD card

Question

I deleted 40 some photos from my SD card in my camera. I thought I saved them on my desktop. Using 12.04 LTS. Is there a way to restore the photos?? My wife is pissed. Nothing has been over written on the card.

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score 99 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 21 '19 at 02:52

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TestDisk / PhotoRec

Yes, use the tool photorec; you'll be able to recover pretty much any file.

You should make sure that the SD card is read only as writing to it can corrupt any possibility of recovering data.

In Ubuntu, open a terminal and run:

$ sudo apt install testdisk
$ sudo photorec

edited Nov 21 '19 at 02:52

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Aug 09 '13 at 12:50

Just tried it, it works great, recovered all files on sdcard. – conualfy Sep 03 '14 at 22:59
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sudo apt-get install testdisk will install the photorec binary. – Steve Jun 29 '16 at 19:13
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Worked like a magic for me. – Benjamin Harel Dec 04 '17 at 14:09
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Wow, lifesaver! Restored almost all the lost photos! – 0x49D1 May 24 '18 at 20:36
You can rename the pictures to their original naming format by using the date and time contained in their EXIF data (if present). I have posted instructions here. – Tymek Feb 05 '22 at 23:43

How to Restore photos on SD card

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