Wednesday, February 23, 2011

How To Recover Lost Digital Photos From Kodak Easyshare M580

How To Recover Lost Digital Photos From Kodak Easyshare M580The Kodak Easyshare M580 is a point-and-shoot digital camera that offers 14 Megapixels, automated settings and lots of other features that helps novice photographers to take the best photos. Some of the other specification of Kodak Easyshare M580 include an 8X optical zoom with a focal length of 28mm and have the ability to record HD video. The camera uses SD/SDHC memory card to store photos and videos. The Kodak Easyshare M580 has a share button, with the help of share button you can easily share your photo, picture and video to various social networking sites like facebook, twitter, flickr, youtube and the ability to send it via an email. All of this is done whenever the camera is connected to a computer or Mac systems.

Consider the scenario: when you accessing SDHC memory card via card reader for transferring the data (like photo, picture or video)to a Mac system and encounter the following error message:


“Card not recognized”


Causes:


The above error message appear due to the following reasons:
  • SDHC card is not properly inserted in the card slot of Kodak Easyhare M580
  • Pulling out the card from the camera while it write the data
  • Suddenly shut down of camera while transferring of data to mac system
Resolution:

In order to fix the above error you should follow these steps:
  • Make sure the memory card is properly inserted into the expansion slot of Kodak Easyshare M580
  • Try to access the SDHC memory card in the digital camera or
  • Access the memory card into Mac system via card reader
  • If still you are unable to access the SDHC memory card, format the memory card and
  • Use effective and powerful Mac photo recovery utility.
Formatting of memory card allow you to access the memory card by installing the new file system. It doesn't mean that stored old data get deleted permanently, only the index entry get deleted. It can easily recovered with the help of advance and powerful Mac photo recovery software. But always remember one thing that doesn't store or overwrite any thing on the SDHC memory card because overwriting reduces the chance of recovery so avoid memory card for further use.

Friday, February 18, 2011

How to recover deleted photos from a Mac based system

How to recover deleted photos from a Mac based systemMac systems are the boon for the photographers as they provide incredible features for editing the photos. The photographs from a Mac based computer can in many ways become inaccessible. One of the major reasons of inaccessibility of the photos from a Mac based system is accidental deletion. The situation become even grave when you clean the trash after deleting the pictures accidentally. In such a condition, to recover the photos, you need an updated backup of the hard disk. But in absence of a proper backup, you can still recover the photos deleted accidentally from a Mac based system by the use of a Mac photo recovery software.

I had gone for a World tour with my family. It was our first such tour. Every place we visited, every people we met, every event we attended in the occasion were a real delight and I wanted to capture them all in my digital camera. I snapped as many photos as I could to make the trip memorable for all my life. Back home, I decided to edit those pictures in my Mac based system. To do this, I transferred all the photos from the memory card of my camera to my Mac based system. To make the card free for new photos, I formatted the card. After two-three days, while organizing the data in my Mac based system, I accidentally deleted those photos. To my utter misfortune, I promptly cleaned up the trash of the system. Now I was totally in a fix. I had no photos with me any more.

When I consulted to one of my friends who happens to be a data recovery expert, he suggested me to recover the data from an updated backup. But again to my misfortune, I had not taken backup of my system. To this, he consoled me and told, the photos were still recoverable. He suggested me to use a Mac photo recovery software that would throughly scan the hard disk of the system and trace the deleted photos. The software would then recover the photos and place them in the user defined location.

Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery Software that recovers from digital camera, hard disk, external hard drives, laptops and desktop, pen drive, CD, DVD, USB Drives, and memory cards. The software also recovers photos from all types of memory cards such as SD, MMC, XD, MMCmicro, SM, CF, and Flash cards.


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