Restoring Photos

I accidentally deleted a bunch of old pictures from my camera that were in my Recycle Bin and now I'm trying to retrieve them. I downloaded Restoration, which has found the files, but when I copy (restore) them over, I receive errors trying to open them.

Using QuickTime Picture Viewer it tells me that a "suitable graphics importer could not be found."
Using Windows Photo Viewer it tells me that "Photo Viewer doesn't support this file format" or I "don't have the latest updates to Photo Viewer."

The files are still in JPG format. Does anyone have any suggestions, or perhaps an alternative file recovery program to download?

Thank you.

You can try Recuva.

However, let me explain a little bit about what happens when you delete a file from your hard drive.

When you delete a file, the file is never physically deleted from the drive. Only the entry in the file table is removed. In other words, the data still exists in the same physical location on the hard drive as it did, but now the operating system can no longer find it. The physical space used by the file is returned to the file system for usage at a later time.

So, in order to recover a deleted file, that file must be able to be reconstructed across fragments, and no part of it can be over written by another file. Because your computer is always writing to the hard drive, the space where those pictures were physically stored is always in jeopardy of being overwritten.

Some general rules of thumb are, if you want to recover deleted data you need to:

1) Not use the computer AT ALL until the data is recovered. Every time you press the power button or click anything you are endanger of over writing your files.

2) When you recover the data, it must be written to another hard drive or flash drive, and not to the original location. WHy? Because writing data to your hard drive will potentially over write the data you are trying to recover.

So, in my opinion, the software you used probably did find "evidence" of the pictures you are looking for, but it sounds as if the files are no longer intact. Only a small portion of it was recovered, and the rest has already been overwritten by normal computer usage, thus making the entire file useless. My guess is that no matter what you try at this point, you will not recover that information. Once the data is physically over written on the hard drive, it is gone forever.

Hi,ppl!
I think that Restoration can't recover encrypted files without corrupting them. Personally I used Advanced File Recovery and this app did it's job well.