Did not recover recently deleted photos

[sbader127]

I am a new user. I accidentally deleted important files from my long used CF card. I ran ZAR which recovered 2 year old images but no sign of these brand new deletions. Any other options??:mad:

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Which mode did you use - "recover image from a memory card", or "recover data from a simple volume"?

[sbader127]

recover images from memory card- now i tried the recover from volume but still did not show my most recently deleted images - the only ones I needed.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Open the log file, C:\Program Files\ZAR\logfile.txt with notepad or something. In there, find a text "Object count" without quotes. Look for a line indicating the count of JPEG files ZAR sees on a card. It will be like "Object count : JPEG image : NN". Check if NN is close to the number of images it recovers (in image recovery mode). If the numbers match, then the files are deleted irreversible (although the reason escapes me). If there is a significant mismatch, then we got a ZAR malfunction of some sort, a bug maybe.

[motlee33]

unfortunately the numbers match what was currently retrieved. is there anything or do you know of another program that could retrieve the deleted items? I did not do anything drastic after the initial deletion so this is pretty frustrating...any advice you have is appreciated...

[motlee33]

just to make sure, i located the object count and it stated "JPEG image 5"
I cannot seem to find the line for the Image Recovery mode. with a number. My previous response was based on the assumption that the object count number is the same as the number of pics i was able to view.

can you review the portion of the logfile i was viewing just to confirm?

thank you

Volume information for ID 0000FFFF
Origin : Scan
Partition type : Unknown
Capacity : 999 MB
Number of sectors : 2047815
RAID type : Simple volume
Stripe size : 1
Rotation parameters: 0 / 0
Member 00 : 2047815 sectors at LBA 0 on device 0102
Starting raw scanner for a total of 2047815 sectors
Raw scanner starting on disk 0102 from LBA 0 to LBA 2047815
QS MODE INHIBIT
QS SIZE INHIBIT
AS start
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (12 of 12) 0s
AS done
Object count : Unknown 0
Object count : Physcially bad 0
Object count : FAT16 boot sector 1
Object count : FAT32 boot sector 0
Object count : FAT16 sector 4
Object count : FAT32 sector 0
Object count : NTFS boot sector 0
Object count : NTFS MFT entry 0
Object count : NTFS INDX block 0
Object count : NTFS RSTR block 0
Object count : NTFS RCRD block 0
Object count : ext2/3 superblock 0
Object count : ext2/3 inodes 0
Object count : ext2/3 directory start 0
Object count : JFS superblock 0
Object count : ReiserFs superblock 0
Object count : Whole FAT directory 2
Object count : Start of FAT directory 0
Object count : FAT directory run 0
Object count : GIF image 0
Object count : JPEG image 5
Object count : TIFF image 0
Object count : WAV sound 0
Object count : ZIP archive 0
Object count : RAR archive 0
Object count : EXE/DLL DOS/Windows executable module 0
Object count : OLE Structured Storage 0
Object count : MP4 video 0
Object count : Adobe PDF 0
Object count : PNG image 0
Object count : Real Media 0
Object count : LNK shortcut 0
Object count : MIDI 0
Object count : CAB archive 0
Object count : CHM help file 0
Object count : CRW Canon raw image 0
Object count : MOV Quick Time movie 0
Object count : ICM color profile 0
Object count : GZip archive 0
Object count : Olympus RAW (ORF) 0
Object count : AVI video 0
Object count : AMR audio 0
Image recovery - Detect parameters start
Performance: Ident data query (7 of 12) 0s
CF=2: 100.0%
CF=4: 100.0%
CF=8: 100.0%
CF=16: 100.0%
CF=32: 100.0%
CF=64: 66.7%
Determined CF=32
Performance: Ident data query (7 of 12) 0s
Determined SS=0.000
Image recovery - Detect parameters done
Image recovery - Parse - RAW filesystem - start
Image recovery - Parse - RAW filesystem - startup phase complete
Image recovery started
Performance: Ident data query (12 of 12) 0s
ACRI started for i00000.jpg with a size of 1835008
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 1s
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00000.jpg 0s
ACRI done for i00000.jpg with a new size of 1802240
Performance: ACRI for i00000.jpg 5s
ACRI started for i00001.jpg with a size of 1605632
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00001.jpg 0s
ACRI done for i00001.jpg with a new size of 1589248
Performance: ACRI for i00001.jpg 5s
ACRI started for i00002.jpg with a size of 1671168
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00002.jpg 0s
ACRI done for i00002.jpg with a new size of 1638400
Performance: ACRI for i00002.jpg 5s
ACRI started for i00003.jpg with a size of 1769472
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s:
Performance: Render image i00003.jpg 0s
ACRI done for i00003.jpg with a new size of 1736704
Performance: ACRI for i00003.jpg 5s
ACRI started for i00004.jpg with a size of 1041272320
ACRI: Initial render failed for i00004.jpg
ACRI done for i00004.jpg with a new size of 1041272320
Performance: ACRI for i00004.jpg 0s
Image recovery - Parse - RAW filesystem - done (or aborted)
Fragment reordering start
No fragments stored, rolling back
Scavenger starting
Scavenger started
Starting 4 worker(s)
Started 4 worker(s)
Done 4 worker(s)
Started tree mods
Done tree mods
Start purge
Done purge
Scavenger stopping
Scavenger stopped
Autosave startingBoject count
Autosave started
AS start
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (12 of 12) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (12 of 12) 0s
AS done
Autosave stopping
Autosave stopped
Final TS start
FL load starting
FL load started
FL root operation
FL root done
FL load stopping
FL load stopped
Performance: RunTime 5m 32s
Final TS done
TE SF 1
TE SF 2
ROOT\i00000.jpg - 1802240 bytes
Unable to create file "C:\Users\tlee\Documents\ROOT\i00000.jpg", error code 80
ROOT\i00001.jpg - 1589248 bytes
Unable to create file "C:\Users\tlee\Documents\ROOT\i00001.jpg", error code 80
ROOT\i00002.jpg - 1638400 bytes
Unable to create file "C:\Users\tlee\Documents\ROOT\i00002.jpg", error code 80
ROOT\i00003.jpg - 1736704 bytes
Unable to create file "C:\Users\tlee\Documents\ROOT\i00003.jpg", error code 80
ROOT\i00004.jpg - 1041272320 bytes
Unable to create file "C:\Users\tlee\Documents\ROOT\i00004.jpg", error code 80
TS: Stop validation
TS: Stopped validation
Logging - shut down

[Alexey V. Gubin]

So, there is nothing else on the card.
In "image recovery" mode, object count for JPEG is a maximum number of images you can theoretically get. This is recorded before any sort of filtering is applied (which may decrease number of images, but cannot bring everything new). What I looked for is to verify that filtering does not errorneously remove something. Unfortunately, it worked as designed, but there is nothing else on the card.

[guardone]

Forgive my interruption. My camera was recently "water damaged" and afterwards I discovered that many clicks had not written any picture to the compact flash card. It is possible that the pictures you thought you had were never on the card, unless you know that you have seen them via the LCD viewer.