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Wiped your favourite pics? Wipe that frown off your face

3 July 2007 0:00 GMT / By Ian Hughes

I'm going to tell you a little story. Picture the scene: a family holiday on the rugged Pembrokeshire coast. Everybody's travelled miles to be there and one of the main events is a little boy's 1st birthday.

Proud Uncle (a journalist who likes to think he's reasonably techno-savvy) is snapping away at the little munchkin's party with Proud Granny's new digital camera.

He's quite pleased with his results so he decides to download them to his laptop. Disaster! The SD card corrupts and not only does he lose that day's pictures, he loses everything on the card which contains all the images that Proud Granny has taken of said 1 year old since the day he was born.

Gulp.

Proud Uncle travels back to home base with the corrupted card and his tail between his legs promising "I'll see what I can do" and thinking "poo, poo, poo". Or words to that effect.

A bit of research (that'd be Google, then) reveals that there are numerous software packages designed for just this type of event and he eagerly starts downloading them. All of them.

Nothing works, until he stumbles across this little beauty which first time out recovers all the corrupted images.

I cannot describe how relieved I, sorry, he was, when he'd finished.

This software is amazing. It recovers corrupted files and will even recover images if a memory card is accidentally formatted.

Family holiday in Wales: £1000
Digital camera for Proud Granny: £300
SD card: £15
Software to recover all the images from corrupt card and thus ensure invitation to future family gatherings: priceless.
Actually, it was less than 20 quid and I, sorry, he can't recommend it enough.

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