As far back as we can remember, we have seen photos being clicked. Sometimes our parents, friends, relatives, and many times we have ourselves clicked photos. Today, we use digital cameras that allow us to instantly see the photos we click. These wonder gadgets save the photos on the card. We do transfer these pictures to various storage devices, including, computers, pen drives, CDs, iPods, and even digital photo frames. But have you considered that things can go wrong with these photos, while they are stored in these devices. For example, the file may get lost due to various reasons, like, formatting, corruption of the card or digital device, accidental deletion, pressing of ‘Shift’ key while deleting, etc.

To avoid data loss in such situations, following measures must be observed:

  • The camera, card, pen-drive, or computer should not be used further, to prevent overwriting of the lost file. In case the file does get overwritten, then there is no way to recover deleted photos.
  • As much as possible, take and update backups of the photos. Always ensure that you carry out the backup job as soon as possible. This ensures that in case you lose your photos, you can always undelete photos
  • Try to keep the storage media away from magnets and electromagnetic range. In case, the storage media stays in such a range, the storage are tends to get polarized differently, thereby causing irrevocable photo loss.
  • Another thing that one should observe is that the media should not be exposed to extreme heat or cold. Even these can interfere with the circuitry and lead to irreversible damage.
  • Make sure that you charge the battery of the camera, when you go anywhere. If batteries die in the middle of photo write operation, chances are that your memory card will get corrupt.
  • Likewise, make sure that while a photo write operation is being carried out, you do not shut it down, or remove the batteries. Even these can damage the memory card.
  • Always transfer your photos to the computer, and make sure you format the memory card after every use. This reduces the chances of the same getting damaged.

If you have already lost, deleted or formatted your media, the you will need to recover lost photos using a digital photo recovery software.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable software for carrying out such recovery operations. Capable of recovering photos from any digital storage media, the application performs recovery in 3-simple steps i.e. Start-> Scan->Recover.