Beginner Recovering 'deleted' RAW data?

[mussEd]

To cut a long and boring story short I have inadvertently deleted RAW files of images I took the other night. Can I recover these?

Heres the long boring bit: On Monday I went out to shoot the fireworks display at the end of the Edinburgh Festival, decided to try using RAW+JPEG. (this was my first attempt to use RAW) I initially put all my images onto my Mac via apples Photos program. I then use various image editing software packages to carry out any processing work. There is a tick box which says "Delete all images after Import" which I guess is there to stop your memory card being clogged up by stuff already imported. This was left ticked and Photos program only works with JPEG files so I can't import the RAW images into Affinity or Nik Collections like I would a JPEG from Photos. Will they be lurking somewhere not immediately obvious, retrievable with a little bit of digging maybe? Or are they gone forever? I've still got the JPEGs so it's not a massive deal, and the images aren't too hot anyway but 'd just like to know if there is a solution...

Just about to head out to carry out parental duties for the afternoon, so thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

 

[dbr1066]

First thing is don't use the camera card again, or the files (which will be there though you can't see them) will be written over. You'll need a file recovery program. There are lots out there, some are free, like: http://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/card-recovery-software/free-memory-card-recovery.htm. As long as you don't reformat the card or fill it up with new images chances are you can recover the original RAW files.

Good luck!

 

[mussEd]

Ah. I may have already done this when a new lens arrived the day after. Ah well. That's a lesson learned! Thanks for the reply...

 

[petersmart]

Try the free trial of Recuva:

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

I've used this and it's very good.
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