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hello all - i am hoping someone can help...i have a canon powershot a85 4.0megapixels. i am traveling in argentina and was on my way to copy photos from my 256mb card to disc. i was looking at the photos i had (had taken over 150 or sthg like that), erased a couple and turned the camera off. i opened it again, took a couple of pictures, re-looked at the last few and again turned it off. at this point, all was fine.
then i turned it on, took one more photo and realized that the display said 1/1 (1st photo of one photo). it is the only photo on there right now and i am slightly freaking out. the only reason i have one glimmer of hope is that the display also says that i have 7 more photos that i can take - which is basically what i had left when i looked at it last and it was fine (over 150 on there, 7 or so left to take given the room on the card). if it were empty (ie, i had truly accidentally erased all 150+ photos, it would say that i have way more photos still to take). where could these pics be???
i have been traveling for 6 months with this camera and this card and have let it get completely full many times and just copied pics to discs, etc, etc without any problems. it is obviously pretty difficult to erase all of the pictures on accident as you have to choose 4 or 5 options and i just know i didnt do that. nor do i believe i accidentally reformated it. but what else could i have done? could they be filed away somewhere?? is there still a way to view them on the camera?
any help will be very much appreciated. thanks a lot.

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