{"id":53,"date":"2010-06-25T12:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T12:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=53"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:34:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:34:42","slug":"rescue-photos-from-currupted-memory-card-with-protorec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Rescue photos from currupted memory card with ProtoRec"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been given the task to empty the family camera’s memory card<\/strong> (this is my job to do since I’m the computer guy in the house) a few days ago. I took the card out of the camera, put it in a card reader and plugged the reader in my laptop. A red light turned on it but it turned off immediately which was not a good sign at all. My OS X complained that the disk was not properly dismounted. I tried the reader on other two laptops (two other OSes) but with no luck. I put the memory card back in to the camera and a few more photos were taken since then. <\/p>\n

I bought a new reader<\/strong> yesterday, came home, put the memory card in and plugged the reader into my laptop. It took forever to read it (not a good sign at all) but after the card was recognized there were no photos on it<\/strong>!?!? I put the card back in the camera and it claimed that card has no photos on it as well!?!? My conclusion was that the card was probably corrupted<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

There are a lot of good tools out there<\/a> to restore data from corrupted memory cards but most of them are for Windows. I remembered once using a decent command line software which I tried to find but it took me a while (There’s a good paper<\/a> on how we find information on the web that was found already in the past)1<\/sup>. It is called PhotoRec<\/a> and is cross platform as well. Although their web site has detailed instructions<\/a> on how to use the software I still wanted to share my straight forward procedure step by step on a Mac<\/strong> for less technical users (but you are still doing it at your own risk).<\/p>\n

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1. Download<\/strong> PhotoRec<\/a> (the latest version is 6.11.3).
2. Extract the file in the Finder<\/strong> (I downloaded it in Downloads folder and this tutorial assumes it is located there)
3. Open the Terminal and type<\/strong> (watch out if you have a different version number):<\/p>\n

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$ cd Downloads\/testdisk-6.11.3\/darwin\/<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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(pwd command on the screenshot just tells in which directory\/folder are we located) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
4. Run the PhotoRec <\/strong>with typing (no need to be super user or root, PhotoRec will show only external Fat16\/32 drives):<\/p>\n
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$ .\/photorec<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
5. Select<\/strong> the appropriate disk<\/strong> (memory card) with arrow keys on the keyboard and proceed (press the enter key on the keyboard):<\/p>\n
 <\/diy> <\/p>\n
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6. Select Intel\/PC partition<\/strong> type with arrow keys and press the enter key:<\/p>\n
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7. Select<\/strong> your FAT partition<\/strong> with arrow keys and press enter:<\/p>\n
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8. Select other<\/strong> and press enter:<\/p>\n
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 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
9. Select Whole<\/strong> and press enter:<\/p>\n
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10. Type Y <\/strong>(no need to select other folders to store photos in) and it should start extracting photos. <\/p>\n
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Once it’s done you’ll see the window similar to the one below. You can close<\/strong> the Terminal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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Your photos will be placed in Downloads\/testdisk-6.11.3\/darwin\/recup_dir<\/strong> folder. If everything was OK of course.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1. R. Capra, et. al., Re-finding
\n found things<\/strong>: An exploratory study of how users re-find information, 2003
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