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I need a free program to recover photos from my dads camera because he accidently deleted them on the camera.

There's a good one, Filerecovery for XD-Picture Cards v2.5, but it's only a trial and you can't recover them, however it lets you see that their are picture's there to be recovered.

It's an Olympus xD-Picture Card 512MB.

I also tried FileRecoveryAngel but thats a trial and has a size limit.
I also tried numerous other trials which don't recover them.

Can anyone help me out?

Well if it is a normal fat or fat32 partition, there should be a free undelete program... Look on NoNags under file management tools, you should find one

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Originally posted by nimicitor
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

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Thank you! I used it and I recovered them.

Thanks to cloudhunter aswell for finding FreeUndelete, I may try that aswell because some of the images have been cut off for some reason.

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Originally posted by Chris4
Thanks to cloudhunter aswell for finding FreeUndelete, I may try that aswell because some of the images have been cut off for some reason.

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Each and every undelete program does exactly the same (I'm not going into details atm). This means that if one program can't recover a file, the other program wont be able to either.

If an image is cutoff, it means part of that image was already overwritten on disc and can't be recovered anymore (and that you're lucky that the image was saved in a streaming format like JPG where you don't need the entire file to see (part of) the image, and not in another format).

Thanks Cookie.

It's weird that you can see the small thumbnail when browsing through photos, but when you open it, you only see half the image.

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Originally posted by Chris4
It's weird that you can see the small thumbnail when browsing through photos, but when you open it, you only see half the image.

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Not at all.  The files contain an embedded thumbnail, which, unsurprisingly, is at the beginning of the file.  Thus, if the end of the file is missing or corrupt, you will still get perfect thumbnails, but only part of the full-size image.

This is a part of the EXIF format, which is used by virtually all digital cameras and is also responsible for embedded camera type and settings, which you can see in Windows file properties and many programs, when viewing digital photos.

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Originally posted by nimicitor
not true. some are better then others.

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they are better because they may have a nicer interface, but they will all do exactly the same.