Recover lost photos (again)

I’ve written about photo recovery before. Last vacation I had to open this box of tricks again to get the pictures back from a delete all operation.

My first attempt was with photorec as described in my post. But that failed to recover any photo.

The next tools I tried all offered free trails but required up to $99 for actual recovery. My 9 pictures are valuable but not this much.

Since I’m on a Mac now I used the tools that are available:

  1. [terminal] diskutil list
    , as described here to find the device to create an image from
  2. [terminal] dd if=/dev/disk2 of=camera.img conv=noerror
    , create the image from the device as described here
  3. Parallels with Windows 8.1, since the free tools are all on Windows …
  4. osfmount to mount the image from step 2 in Windows
  5. Now recover the pictures with recuva

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Week roundup

Last week recap and links:

Image courtesy of kanate / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Image courtesy of kanate / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

What are your best reads this week? Leave them in the comments below.

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2015 in blogging

2015-in-blogging

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 50,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 19 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Complete report.

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PNY ThinkSafe review

My new laptop is the MacBook Pro from Apple. The processor power, the brilliant screen and the speedy SSD make it to my perfect device. To keep it MY device I needed a security measure. Since it lacks the Kensington slot I decided to got with the PNY ThinkSafe system.

The solution PNY came up with is simple yet effective: put a metal plate through the hinge and lock it. This works very well. I haven’t had any scratches or difficulty inserting the hinge link. Only downside is the laptop cannot be fully closed.

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Week roundup Holiday edition


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