Luminous Landscape Forum

Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: uheck on June 05, 2014, 02:30:23 pm

Title: HELP needed- IIQ Capture One IQ180 RAW files deleted- which Mac file recovery?
Post by: uheck on June 05, 2014, 02:30:23 pm
Hi Guys,

who knows a proper working file recovery which recovers IQ180 files?
One of my digitecs deleted some raws.

thank You guys!!

best
Title: Re: HELP needed- IIQ Capture One IQ180 RAW files deleted- which Mac file recovery?
Post by: Paul2660 on June 05, 2014, 02:34:20 pm
If you can find a windows PC, "getdataback" works excellent.  It will pull data back even after a full write over. 

Paul
Title: Re: HELP needed- IIQ Capture One IQ180 RAW files deleted- which Mac file recovery?
Post by: douglevy on June 05, 2014, 03:24:26 pm
Wow, Paul how is that possible?
Title: Re: HELP needed- IIQ Capture One IQ180 RAW files deleted- which Mac file recovery?
Post by: Paul2660 on June 05, 2014, 03:58:04 pm
To really clear a card it takes several low low formats. Most PC or camera type formats delete track zero and the rest of the bits are there.

A card that's been totally written over you probably won't get everything back but you will be surprised at what's really there.

Paul
Title: Re: HELP needed- IIQ Capture One IQ180 RAW files deleted- which Mac file recovery?
Post by: Doug Peterson on June 05, 2014, 05:12:27 pm
We have found "prosoft data rescue" to work with past phase one deletion/formatting emergencies.

In my experience you'll need to do the deep/thorough scan and it may detect them as tiff files requiring you to rename the file extensions ("better rename" Mac app is great for this as is the built in osx app "Automator").

Good luck!! Please let us know regardless so the base of knowledge here can grow.
Title: Re: HELP needed- IIQ Capture One IQ180 RAW files deleted- which Mac file recovery?
Post by: nutcracker on June 06, 2014, 01:57:13 pm
ImageRescue, license comes with Lexar cards, downloadable, works well