Saving you after doing something stupid

Sometimes, I delete files I shouldn’t.  Usually, I have backups, and so it isn’t a big deal.

I shoot softball and baseball mostly.  Today, I shot a soccer game for some friends.  Took about 400 action shots.  Came home, as as part of my normal workflow, downloaded them from the card onto the computer, and the automatic process is that the files are then deleted from the card (it’s automatic).

Normally that’s fine.  I usually then pull the files onto an external drive that I have and start working on the ones on the hard drive.

Sadly, I had left my external at work.  So I went past my normal workflow and import the files into my normal working software BreezeBrowser.

I had hilighted all the photos in BreezeBrowser because  I was going to quickly go through them and delete the cruft.  I noticed that the first shot was out of focus and wanted to delete it.

That’s where things went terribly wrong.

I had forgotten to notice that all the shots were hilighted.  When I hit the delete key, they all got deleted from the disk.

Since I have the trash turned off, they went into never never land.

After having a mild coronary, I remembered that about a year ago had purchased a piece of software called PhotoRescue .

It saved me.  It undeleted all the shots and I was able to get on with my workflow.

Check it out.  It’s really useful for undeleting from a card in an external card reader.

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