

So, the computer wiped the SD card clean even though the photos weren’t saved to the hard drive.

The photos didn’t import, but OS X thought they did. My sister-in-law was importing photos to her iPhoto library from an SD card and something went haywire. The Scenario: Photos Accidentally Deleted from a USB Driveįor the purpose of this tutorial, I’m going to recreate a real-life scenario using a USB drive. Undeleting photos and videos are just the tip of the iceberg. Together, PhotoRec and TestDisk are a powerful set of free data recovery tools. It’s a companion program to TestDisk, another open-source program that’s long been used by data recovery gurus for repairing partitions and making non-bootable disks bootable again. PhotoRec is a free and open-source, cross-platform utility that lets you recover data from a hard drive, flash drive, SD card, and other removable media.
