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I was working on the phone with a client/friend helping her with her Sony a9 iii menu. She wanted to copy her settings in case she screwed anything up. So I grabbed my 400-800 with a Sony a-1 on it. Just for fun, I hit Playback and checked out a few of the wonderful images I had made during the past eight days. As noted previously, I had a single Delkin Devices 960GB BLACK CFexpress Type A 4.0 Memory Card in each of my two camera bodies. Anyhoo, the first step for her was to grab an old card, stick it in the camera, and Format it. “I worked through the process while looking at the Menu on my camera. And, despite the fact that I had just finished looking at the images on the card,I “demonstrated” the steps for her on my camera. A minute later during a lull in the conversation, I hit Playback again and was aghast to see “No Images.” I had deleted more than 2,000 images from my recent (laptop-less) morning bird photography sessions.
How could I possibly have done that? Like a plane crash — I have been binge-watching Air Disasters for the past ten days, several things (2 in this case) had to happen in the exact right order.
#1: I had sent my laptop in for repair. Thus, my regular workflow — shoot, download, pick my keepers, back-up twice, was disrupted.
#2: My brain was in “helping Pat” mode. In that mindset, I was not in any way aware of the fact that what I was doing would delete the images on the card in the rig that was in my hands.
The story has a happy ending. I purchased EaseUS Data Recovery . It took about 30 minutes to identify all the images and then, in less than ten minutes, had recovered all the images. Once I had recovered all the images, I backed up the laptop, formatted the card, copied the entire folder back to the card, and Ingested the images with Photo Mechanic so that they would be place in the proper Month/Day/Year folders with the location, “Indian Lake Estates,” affixed to the file name. Perfection and happiness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.