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free program to recover deleted movie from digital camera

May 25, 2011 11:12AM PDT

I'm looking for a free program to recover a movie that I deleted from my Canon digital camera using my Mac. Any suggestions? I know it's somewhere on my memory card, but how can I recover it?

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Google is your friend here,
May 25, 2011 9:59PM PDT
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recovering deleted movies
Sep 23, 2011 11:28AM PDT

Thanks! This looks good.

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recover digital camera on Mac
Sep 22, 2011 3:35PM PDT

Sorry to interrupt the post a little bit. Hope I can add something. I think "mrmacfixit" didn't notice that "karbohm" is using a Mac machine. That cardrecovery only works under Windows. As to free recovery programs under Mac, I can only recommend this PhotoRec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

It is freeware, cross-platform. But the only drawback of this program is it is a command line tool. If you perfer to software with GUI, then try this Photo Recovery for Mac
http://www.anysoftwaretools.com/photo-recovery-for-mac.html
need paid but good, able to recover photos, videos and music.

Note: If you really want that movie back, before you use data recovery app, better stop using your Canon camera to take more photos or movies or saving more files to the memory card as chances of recovery may be greatly decreased.

Best regards. - Rose A

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Ooops,
Sep 22, 2011 10:01PM PDT

but it looks like the OP did not take any notice anyway.

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Ooops
Sep 23, 2011 7:00AM PDT

Today was the first notification of any answers to my question. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

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recover digital camera on Mac
Sep 23, 2011 6:57AM PDT

Thanks for your advice. I appreciate it.