beelzerob
Senior Member
So something strange happened last night.
My wife decided to download some of the pics from our camera into the usual place on her PC. So, she plugged in the camera, the Microsoft camera and scanner wizard comes up, she selects the pics, and hits next. They start showing they're downloading. While they're still downloading, she decides to go to the directory and start browsing them. She browses some, turns them right-side-up, and deletes one because it's so blurry. Finally the wizard says that it's done. So she deletes the pics from the camera, exits from the wizard, and goes back to the directory where they were. There are none there. She's thinking for some reason it's slow to update or something. So she waits, and no pics show up. She then decides to reboot....goes to the directory...still nothing.
Now, I was sitting next to her the whole time, and I saw it downloading...saw her browsing multiple pics in the directory, and saw her delete one. We've since scanned the entire drive for any .jpg files....nothing. We scanned all PC's on the network in case they got saved somewhere else, but none show up.
I did go into the recycle bin in case they were deleted somehow...and in the bin is that one pic that she deleted because it was blurry. So we restored it, and it went back into the directory that all the other pics should have been in. But there are no other pics that were deleted.
So far as we can tell....they just evaporated somehow. I've scanned her PC with undelete-plus, and nothing that was a .jpg showed up, nor any other file big enough to have been one of those pics.
Our last and final effort is to get an SD card reader and try to recover the deleted pics from there.
Anyone ever heard of this happening? Very annoying and disconcerting since we can't point to anything at all that we did wrong. The only thing I can POSSIBLY guess is that something hosed up when she deleted the pic while other pics were still downloading to the directory....but why that would cause all of the pics including the ones that had ALREADY been downloaded to disappear...I have no idea.
My wife decided to download some of the pics from our camera into the usual place on her PC. So, she plugged in the camera, the Microsoft camera and scanner wizard comes up, she selects the pics, and hits next. They start showing they're downloading. While they're still downloading, she decides to go to the directory and start browsing them. She browses some, turns them right-side-up, and deletes one because it's so blurry. Finally the wizard says that it's done. So she deletes the pics from the camera, exits from the wizard, and goes back to the directory where they were. There are none there. She's thinking for some reason it's slow to update or something. So she waits, and no pics show up. She then decides to reboot....goes to the directory...still nothing.
Now, I was sitting next to her the whole time, and I saw it downloading...saw her browsing multiple pics in the directory, and saw her delete one. We've since scanned the entire drive for any .jpg files....nothing. We scanned all PC's on the network in case they got saved somewhere else, but none show up.
I did go into the recycle bin in case they were deleted somehow...and in the bin is that one pic that she deleted because it was blurry. So we restored it, and it went back into the directory that all the other pics should have been in. But there are no other pics that were deleted.
So far as we can tell....they just evaporated somehow. I've scanned her PC with undelete-plus, and nothing that was a .jpg showed up, nor any other file big enough to have been one of those pics.
Our last and final effort is to get an SD card reader and try to recover the deleted pics from there.
Anyone ever heard of this happening? Very annoying and disconcerting since we can't point to anything at all that we did wrong. The only thing I can POSSIBLY guess is that something hosed up when she deleted the pic while other pics were still downloading to the directory....but why that would cause all of the pics including the ones that had ALREADY been downloaded to disappear...I have no idea.
