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On the surface digital photo recovery seems to be no more difficult than the recovery of any other type of accidentally deleted or corrupted file. One purchases and downloads a quality file recovery program and directs that program to scan through their entire computer hard drive. The scan should return a listing of all recoverable digital image files of the types commonly associated with digital photos. These would include JPGs, jpegs, GIFs, etc. The process of recovering digital photo images should be no more difficult than recovering Word documents, emails or any other commonly used file type. What marks digital photo recovery as more difficult is not what takes place after you have successfully downloaded your photographs from your digital camera onto your computer’s internal hard drive.

What makes recovery of digital image files different and difficult is that very often we assume a successful transfer of our precious photographs only to discover later that many of our images were incomplete. That being the case, the process to recover digital photos requires us to go back to our digital camera’s memory card and search through that media for the original stored digital photographs. These will most likely be in the camera manufacturer’s proprietary format known as a RAW file. When you purchase a program for digital photo recovery, make sure that program will recognize and recover RAW files.

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RAW Image Recovery