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It’s quick and easy to erase photos from your digital camera’s memory card. It’s as though the designers made this easy for themselves when they were testing the design. A couple of clicks and that unwanted photo is gone forever. The snag is, it’s also quick and easy to delete a photo instead of preserving it, for later transfer to your PC or your Flickr account. Or worse still, you’ve answered “yes” to the question that needed to know if you wanted to format your complete camera memory card contents. Blast!

If the file was on your PC you’d likely go into the recycle bin and restore the photo you’d just deleted in error.

But there’s no recycle bin on your digital camera. So does that mean that your precious photo is lost forever?

Fortunately, the answer is “no”.

But you need to be cautious. Camera memories work much the same way as hard disks. The files you can “see” are the ones that you haven’t deleted. But the filing system is lazy and hasn’t really deleted the file yet. Instead, it’s just given itself a note that the space is available to be used again.

So if you’ve accidentally erased a photo, stop doing anything with your camera before you’ve done your best to retrieve your lost work of art.

As you’ve guessed, you’re not the first person to press the wrong button. So there’s some software you can use to help.

It’s as simple as hooking up your camera to your computer as you’d normally do. Then follow a few simple, step by step instructions. You can see the software in action here.

The undelete photo software can recover single photographs, complete memory cards (for instance, if you’ve accidentally formatted your memory card) and has a high success rate even if your photo memory card has become damaged.

It’s as simple as that to get back all those photos that you thought had been lost forever.

You can get this simple photo recovery software for instant download here.