Recover Lost Picture in Data Transferring from Camera to Computer

Have you ever been troubled by this? You were cautiously transferring your picture from camera to computer, but somehow the picture “disappeared”. You wondered how it could happen and wanted to recover lost picture, while sometimes you successfully recover lost picture, sometimes you just failed.
Here I’d like to tell you some scenarios which may cause picture loss and how to recover lost picture in data transferring from camera to computer.

Some scenarios cause picture loss

1. After connecting the camera to computer, you start transferring your picture. Accidentally you touch the data wire, causing the USB disconnected. Not all the pictures are successfully transferred and some are lost.

2. The sudden power-off of the camera or computer could lead the picture lost too. Once that happens, the transferring process would be interrupted forcibly, and some of your pictures might be lost.

3. If your computer doesn’t have enough space to store more pictures, the data transferring would not be finished until some space is released. If you “cut”-“paste” the picture and keep on transferring it, the picture would be lost.

4．The virus! If your picture is affected with virus, when you transfer it from camera to computer, the anti-virus software in your computer may kill the virus by deleting the picture automatically. The virus is erased but your picture is also erased.

How to recover lost picture after picture loss

After you lost picture in data transferring from camera to computer, search it immediately in both the camera and the computer. If you previously chose to “cut” the picture but failed to “paste” it on the computer, you may try pasting it again (paste in a place where there is enough space). If the picture can be pasted again, congratulations, your picture is back.

If the picture is still lost, you may try some photo recovery software. After the picture was lost, the data are not always lost, just not visible or readable because the entry index of the system makes a special mark on those data hinting this area can be written over by other new data. So keep in mind: do not put more pictures or other data in the same place where your lost picture was stored, since once you put other new files in it, this free space will be overwritten by others, which makes it difficult to recover lost picture.

One recommended software is Wondershare photo recovery. It can recover lost picture from digital cameras and computers. As one professional and risk-free photo recovery software, it helps you recover lost picture with good quality. The supported formats include JPG, BMP, TIF, PNG, PSD GIF, ZIP, RAR, and so on. At the same time, the trial version can let you preview the effects in the thumbnail to see whether your pictures are recoverable or not. Here my suggestion is to scan the camera and computer both, improving the success rate of recovering lost picture.

Tips:

If possible, “copy” but not “cut” picture if you want to “paste” it in another place. Since we cannot always guarantee that everything works well while transferring picture from camera to computer. And if possible, do backup, a very good way to protect our data.