Problem, images mysteriously erased from card

dugmar

I was shooting with my new 7D this morning and then again later this afternoon. I pulled the card to put in a card reader, the images from the AM and last night were still there, the newer images shot this afternoon, all gone.

Perplexed and frustrated now. Any clue as to why this would have happened?

SimpsonBrothers

Any chance they were written to internal memory?

Richard

That's peculiar. Have you tried using any file recovery software to see whether the pics might still be there?

dugmar

Richard wrote: »

That's peculiar. Have you tried using any file recovery software to see whether the pics might still be there?

Yes! And I am having some luck there with PC Inpector Smart Recovery.

It is strange, yes. I was reviewing my images on the camera LCD too, so they were there, but gone when I put the card in the CF reader. Put the card back in the camera and they were missing.

Qarik

obvious question..is your card full?

Photoskipper

You may try the RescuePro Deluxe software, it comes with the Sandisk CF card.

I managed to recover 90% of the photos in the card before.

ThatCanonGuy

Or, it could be:
You didn't have the card in the 1st time (happened to me before ;~)
Your card was full
You accidentally selected "delete all" when you were deleting some on-camera
You were using a different CF card
Your images were deleted by an alien when you weren't looking.

Matthew Saville

ThatCanonGuy wrote: »

Or, it could be:
You didn't have the card in the 1st time (happened to me before ;~)
Your card was full
You accidentally selected "delete all" when you were deleting some on-camera
You were using a different CF card
Your images were deleted by an alien when you weren't looking.

I believe they have (FINALLY) removed that *DANGEROUS* "delete all" option from the image review options on the newer generation Canons. But I could be wrong. (Horrible idea, if you ask me. Putting a "delete all" option just one click away from the "delete one" option. Whoever thought of it should be fired...)

=Matt=

Merlin_AZ

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eoren1

What brand card?
Might be a counterfeit card - where did you buy it?
Possibly a card error on a legit one. See my old thread here on problems I had with Sandisk:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=144444&highlight=sandisk

That turned out to be a bad batch of cards. I still use Sandisk ones.

moose135

ThatCanonGuy wrote: »

Or, it could be:
You didn't have the card in the 1st time (happened to me before ;~)

I did that one time - and fortunately, no "one time only" shots were lost. Now I keep "shoot without card" disabled.

ThatCanonGuy wrote: »

Or, it could be:
Your images were deleted by an alien when you weren't looking.

I hate it when that happens!

mkpatil

I have not read the complete thread, but I had a problem sometime ago and the resolution was simple - It was looking at a new directory that the camera created and not the one that the pictures existed (on the card) - I am sure yours is different but something to look at if you have suddenly lost all pictures! Thanks.