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The photos were initially stored in your camera's memory card. Take the card out of your camera, insert it to your computer with a card reader. Then you should download, install and run a photo recovery program on your computer. Generally the software will scan your memory card, show you all the files it found. Choose those pictures you want to get back and then hit the "Recover" button to start.

If you're a Mac user, please take a look at this photo recovery app.
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When the pictures were erased did they go to a trash bin? Go to the menu feature and look for trash bin. If it does not have this feature the pictures are most likely lost forever.

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If the pictures were on a memory card and nothing new has been written to the card (no new pictures), you may be able to recover them. Put the card into a card reader attached or built-in to your computer. Run a file recovery program.

To find a file recovery program, do a Google search for "file recovery" and your computer's operating system.

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Microsandisk 2gb accidentally reformatted and all the pictures there was deleted. can i still retreive it that were erased?

Maybe, what ever you do dont take any more pictures with that card. Down load and install a program called recuva, http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Put the memory card in a usb card reader, attach that to your computer and run recuva and scan your memory card. You may have to do a deep scan to recover any files off of it.
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Can I recover erased pictures from an Ixus 870?

You can connect camera's memory card to computer, then download this picture recovery program which is outstanding among all picture recovery software.
http://www.001-software.com/picture-recovery/
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Erased pictures

You might be able to recover some pictures using Google Cache:

Under google.com, type in the search bar:
cache:(insert address)
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Canon SD1000 keeps erasing pictures

Take no more pics until you've recovered the photos, take the card out of the camera. Here's some freeware photo recovery software that should be what you're looking for:

http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2007/12/recovering-those-accidentally-lost.html

You will need to use a flash card reader with this software. If you don't have one, get one, they're cheap:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=card+reader&rs=172282&page=1&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acard+reader&sort=price

Finally AFTER you've recovered your photos, consider formatting your card IN YOUR CAMERA (did you do this when you first got the card? if not, this is what eventually happens). Keep in mind formatting the card will also totally and permanently erase the card. Press menu, then select the tools menu, then scroll down to the selection stating your cards memory capacity and select it. Then follow the on-screen prompts for a "low-level" format. This should help prevent this from happening again in the future.
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I just accidentally erased all of my pictures before uploading them. Is there anyway to recover them?

Yes! You can restore all your pictures easily. But the most important thing to care is stop using the camera to take new pictures until you have restored the erased ones.
First, download PC Inspector Smart Recovery here: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecovery.html

Then read instructions on the following webpage: http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/60

This will help you to recover your precious pictures.

Good luck!
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Erased Pic by mistake#?%?

Yes, you can! These photos are highly possible to be recovered as long as you take the right steps before it is too late.

First things first - Stop using the camera to take more photos immediately! Then connect the device where your lost images located to a PC which has installed photo recovery software. If you are running Mac, go to Mac photo recovery software.

Remember - DO NOT write anything back untill you recover the photos safely. Once the photos are overwritten, it is impossible to recover. Best regards.
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