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John (ProComGer) | 8 years ago | 1 comment | 1,527 views

► Thanks for the tip, Michiel! I'll post my question here: ◄

I foolishly transferred new photos from my memory card to my hard drive, that started again with IMG_001.jpg. The problem ist that there already was the file IMG_001.jpg on my HDD, of course. However, the file on the hard drive was two years older which I now replaced after foolishly accepting the typical query "Move and replace". Overall, the old files IMG_001.jpg to IMG_015.jpg have now been replaced by the new ones. I immediately tried to undo the process with CTRL + Z, but the older file did not return. Question: Does the "replacement" of the file (in Windows/Mac OS X and Linux) automatically implies that the identical area on the hard drive, where the two-year-old file was located, will be overwritten or replaced? Or will the new file be written to a free area (after the "replacement")? So: is a restoration possible or does replacing overwrite the same HDD space (which makes replacing impossible and further recovery processes superfluous)? I know that jpg photos have a header and so on and I know that it will not be possible to recover the picture completely, but it would be fine to get results like these: jpeg-repair.org....

I have tried many jpg repair softwares, but they didn't do any changes to the picture and didn't recover anything. I've tested all the software from this article, but it didn't help: raymond.cc....



Maybe you could just give me a few tips – it would be great to know if further efforts could lead to results or not (= wasting time for technically impossible things).

Thank you all very much in advance!




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Is Shadow copy working on your HDD?
right click on the overwritten file / properties / previous version

If there is no previous version to select then use one of the next free recovery software:

Recuva piriform.com...
Pandora Recovery pandorarecovery.com

Good luck

komies, 8 years ago


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