How to Recover Lost ORF (Olympus Raw File) Files

Olympus digital cameras, one of the most reliable cameras, are widely used by a myriad of photographers, both professionals as well as amateurs. The cameras are very easy to use and have a number of advanced and distinct features. Olympus cameras originally store files in the ORF (Olympus Raw File) file format. In some cases, the ORF files get deleted or lost from your Mac OS X hard drive and photo loss occurs, and, you need to opt for Mac Photo Recovery to get your lost photos back.

  • ORF is the Raw image file of Olympus digital camera. The camera originally stores all the photos in ORF format, which can be further converted into required file format like JPEG, BMP, JPG, and more. The Raw image file of Olympus camera contains minimally processed information or data from image sensor. It can also contain text information about the picture and the conditions of camera when photo was taken.

You may lose your valuable ORF files from Olympus digital camera, memory card, or Mac OS X computer hard drive, and other supported storage media due to any of the below mentioned reasons:

  • Accidental deletion of the file from either digital camera, memory card, or Mac machine.

  • Unintentional formatting of memory card or other storage media.

  • Turning off the Olympus camera before the ORF file is written completely on the memory card.

  • Removing the memory device from your computer, while the ORF files are still open.

  • Clicking the photos even after the memory card becomes full.

  • Virus infects the memory card.

  • File system of the Mac OS X hard drive or memory card gets damaged.

  • The battery is low and Olympus digital camera turns off while taking photos.

Irrespective of the cause of ORF file loss, you ultimately lose your memorable pictures, which is not acceptable. In such situations, you need to restore lost files from backup to perform Photo recovery.

In case of unavailability of backup, Mac Photo Recovery Software becomes need of the hour. The applications thoroughly scan affected storage media and extract all lost, missing, and deleted photos from it. The Photo Recovery Software are totally safe and simple to use.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Mac) software successfully recover lost photos and multimedia files from digital camera, memory card, Mac hard drive, and other storage media. The software comes with non-destructive conduct and interactive user interface, and works well with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.

How to resolve “Card Error” Message in Fujifilm FinePix J38

Fujifilm FinePix J38 camera has 12.2 mega pixel to capture pictures with amazing quality. The compact digital camera is equipped with simple and easy-to-use functions that offer different shooting modes and useful scene positions. Compatible with SD (Secure Digital) and SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory cards, the camera also has an inbuilt memory of approximately 10 MB.

These memory cards, although reliable digital storage media, can get corrupted after logical crashes. Once corrupted, the data (audio, video, or pictures) saved in these memory cards becomes inaccessible.

An error message pops up when the user attempts to access the data saved in a corrupted memory card. In such cases, if the user wants to access the data saved in the memory card, then s/he needs to restore the data from an updated backup or use commercial Photo Recovery solutions.

To explain the above issue, consider a practical scenario where you try to access the data saved in the SDHC memory card of your Fujifilm FinePix J38 camera, and receive the below error message:

“Card Error”

The error message appears when the camera is not able to access the data saved on the SDHC memory card. Furthermore, the same error message appears every time you try to access the memory card data.

Cause:

The root cause for the occurrence of the above error message is corruption of SDHC memory card. Few main causes of SDHC memory card corruption are interrupted read/write operation, improper camera shutdown, or virus hit.

Resolution:

To resolve the above error message and to store new digital files in the SDHC card, you will need to format the card in the camera. While corruption problems get resolved after formatting, the data saved in the memory card also gets deleted.

To access the deleted data post formatting, you can restore the data from an updated backup. However, if no backup is available, then you will need to search for a good Photo Recovery utility.

A third-party Photo Recovery Software employs advanced recovery procedure to ensure recovery of every single file post formatting.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery recovers all image files from almost all kinds of formatted, corrupted, or damaged memory cards, including SDHC cards. Compatible with almost all versions of Mac OS X (mac photo recovery) and Windows, the photo Recovery Software also provides recovery from other storage media like, USB drives, hard drives, and more.

How to Recover Accidentally Deleted Photo Booth Files?

Photo Booth is an Apple provided application that allows Mac users to capture video clips and photo snapshots using the built-in iSight camera or a webcam. The software also permits these files to e-mail, import in iPhoto, add as contacts’ photos, and use as iChat icons. Its unique feature is that it can add various special effects to these photos.

With such a wide variety of features, Photo Booth is now-a-days a widely accepted application among Mac OS X users. Photos and videos captured by Photo Booth worth memories and professional aspects. As easily as those photos are captured by Photo Booth, they can also be deleted in an instant, which creates odds for accidental file deletion. There have been several practical instances, in which the user has deleted the Photo Booth files accidentally. However, you cannot restore these file unless you use a backup or run a Mac Photo Recovery utility.

To comprehend better, consider you use Photo Booth to capture a one-time party photos and videos. You view a picture and accidentally click the small ‘x’ button that appears at the bottom of thumbnail. Or you delete few of the photos from the original location, believing that they won’t be deleted from Photo Booth. Also, you empty the Trash. These are typical examples of accidental deletion related to Photo Booth.

Solution

If you haven’t restarted the application or system, you can search at the following location to for the lost photos:

/private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.PhotoBooth/IntermediateTrashDirectory/

This solution is applicable when you have deleted the photo using the ‘x’ button. In other cases and while failure of the above solution, you need to restore the lost photos or videos from a backup. But if no backup is available, you are suggested to use a Deleted Photo Recovery utility.

The specific Mac Photo Recovery tools are designed to run exclusive algorithms that can scan and then recover the lost digital files from any media. Also, these applications are easy to install and safe to run. The photo recovery software can rescue deleted digital files that have not been overwritten.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an advanced, yet safe, utility that recovers lost or deleted photos, audios, and videos. The Deleted Photo Recovery utility is available for both Windows (Windows 2000 and later) and Mac OS X (Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later). The software has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to use.

How to recover lost Photos after Upgrading to Snow Leopard

Mac OS X 10.6 or Snow Leopard is the latest major release of Mac OS X family of operating systems. It features several performance-enhancing and end-user upgrades that make it dominant over its earlier versions. For these reasons, Mac users often upgrade to Snow Leopard over the earlier installed Mac OS X version. But due to some reasons, when you upgrade to Snow Leopard, the already existing iPhoto data might get deleted. iPhoto is an Apple utility designed to organize, edit, share, import, and print digital photos on your Mac OS X computer. There have been several instances in which user’s iPhoto data gets unexpectedly deleted once it upgrades to Snow Leopard. To deal with such problems, you need to have a Time Machine backup that could restore the deleted photos. But for users that don’t have such backup, Digital Photo Recovery Software can help.

As a practical instance of these issues, suppose you follow the below sequence of steps:

  • Your use Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on your computer
  • You upgrade the computer to Snow Leopard using the installation media
  • After the system reboots, you find that all of your iPhoto files are missing. Either the whole iPhoto Library or all photos from this iPhoto Library no longer exist.

This problem is frequent after installation of Snow Leopard and has several evidences. One of the possible reasons is incompatibility issues of Snow Leopard and iPhoto application, but the actual problem is still needed to be addressed.

The deleted photos might be of important concern. They can worth memories of your life, your last spent holidays or your family photographs. To restore them, you should check your last available Time Machine backup. But if it is unavailable or exist in unrecoverable state, one of the most suitable option is to use a Photo Recovery Software.

The special purposed Digital Photo Recovery Software is available with unique capabilities of restoring the deleted digital pictures, audios, and videos. The software provide a simple, intuitive interface and allow you to recover deleted, missing or lost digital data after any logical crash.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Mac) is a reliable utility that recovers lost or deleted photos and other digital files from hard drives, digital cameras, memory cards, and other storage media. The MAC Photo Recovery Software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.3.9 (Panther).