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whether you've accidentally deleted everything on your memory card or there's been some sort of corruption issue then you're going to need to know how to recover images from your camera's memory card I'm Alexis Avedis from seenot and I'm going to show you how whether you run a PC or a Mac so the first thing you'll need to do is get a piece of software that it's designed for recovering photos or any other type of file for this how-to I'm going to be using recover on Windows and photorec on Mac let's get started with Windows and the PC first start recover on your PC it will give you a step-by-step walkthrough on how to get your files back we'll need to choose pictures from the file type we're looking for and then choose the location of where your memory card is mounted find this select the DCIM folder if needed press ok and walk through the next step this will then start the actual recovery process now when recover has found some files on your memory card it will pop them up in a window like so you can then select them and walk through the next screen to recover them if you want but there are some more advanced options if you want to find things like RAW files if you want to do this and they're not selected by default in this search box all you'll need to do is just add the file extension to the end for example if you're looking for Canon files it's generally crw or cr2 but check your camera manual for other brands and of course the file extensions as applicable so once you've run that search once more hopefully we'll find a bunch of different files to recover then once you've selected those particular files you want to restore it's pretty easy all you have to do is just press recover then make sure to backup those files to a separate location not on the memory card itself again and then you will actually have all those files back to normal fingers crossed now let's move over to Mac and photorec photorec runs in terminal but don't let this put you off because it's still pretty simple to use first you'll need to choose the location of your memory card once you've done this the next screen will prompt you to find what partition you want to search and choose fat16 4:32 press ENTER again to proceed and then you want to select other once you've got to this stage you'll either need to choose free to look for the basically all the files on the card or whole now you'll only choose whole if you suspect the card is being corrupted so in this will example I know that I've just deleted the files by accident so I'm going to choose free once that happens then you get to choose the location of where you want to backup those files to I've created a separate folder in my pictures folder called recovered photos choose this and then press C to continue photorec is going to show every single file type that's on your memory card that it can find this includes text photos videos mp3s every single thing if you want to limit that to just images and JPEGs and RAW files for example you can do that in the file settings once that's all run again you will be able to find all those recovered images in a folder within finder so that's been a quick way on how to recover photos from your memory card fingers cross this works for you make sure to check out the full text of the tutorial over at CNET's you