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How do I recover images that I accidently deleted?

I accidently deleted images from my Canon Powershot A550 before I transferred them to my computer. Is it possible to recover them from the camera?

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Yes, with a good image recovery software like asoftech photo recovery, it will be an easy job to recover deleted images from camera's memory card. follow the instructions here
http://www.asoftech.com/articles/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-camera.html

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Well, there still have ways to recover deleted pictures from camera if a file is deleted and is not written by further data, then the file has actually been there.

Here is a tutorial for image retrieval

http://www.any-data-recovery.com/topics/photo/retrieve-images.html

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Deleting won't make the digital images on a digital camera erase permanently.Those deleted images are still stored on the memory card of your camera, they're just invisible or inaccessible.You can recover them with photo recovery software. But once the deleted images were overwritten by new data,they are gone for good.

I had recovered deleted images and videos from my Sony camera with a program called Tenorshare Photo Recovery for Mac and it worked.Anyway,you can download it (Photo Recovery for Windows version is available,too, as I remember) and scan your memory card for free to preview whether your files can be recovered.By the way,it will show you the file name,type,date and size of your files and thumbnails for your images that it found on your card.Give it a shot!

Here is a step by step tutorial to guide you recover deleted images from camera.

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Recovery of accidentally deleted Canon Powershot A550 images is very easy now. By using Remo Recover software, you can get back image file formats like CR2, RAW, X3F, CRW, DNG, etc.

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Yes, it is possible to restore your deleted images back.
1.Do not take any new photo to overwrite your deleted ones.
2.Plunge this camera to your computer and prepare to rescue your photos.
3.Apply a camera data recovery freeware to restore all wanted data back with ease:
http://www.4cardrecovery.com/
This free data recovery tool can help restore data back from all sorts of memory cards and many USB flash drives. It can work well for you.
Read more information of this freeware here:
http://micro-sd-card-recover.blogspot.com/2013/11/recover-photos-from-Micro-sd-card.html
4.Save and back up all restored data on another storage device in case of data loss.
Note: Back up everything important well in the future.

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Yes, it is possible to recover these deleted images back with a good camera data recovery freeware:
http://www.freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/02/photo-recovery.html

This camera data recovery freeware has helped many people retrieved their inaccessible data back from their drive, phone or camera successfully. So, you should also give it a chance and try it for your deleted images.

One important thing you should pay attention is not to overwrite these deleted images with any new file on the same camera before you are ready to restore your photos.

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Yes, unless the disk has been physically damaged there are ways to work backwards and retrieve deleted pictures

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Take the card to a store like Walmart that has a Kodak picture kiosk. Sometimes it can read deleted pictures.

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