In praise of ZAR
So I did a stupid thing: I accidentally deleted a bunch of photos from my camera’s memory card before moving them to my PC or to disk. I searched for “recover deleted photos compactflash” and found lots of pages with utilities promising to recover the images.
They all cost money, though, and I wasn’t about to shell out $30 hoping it would work. But then I saw a recommendation for ZAR — Zero Assumption Recovery. It’s free, and it’s supposed to recover those deleted images.
It works. Like a charm. The latest version has several other features I wasn’t interested in, and the program implied I would have to pay to use it, but the recover function, according to the company, remains free.
It’s not the prettiest program in the world, but it works. It’s one of those have-it-in-your-toolbox gems.
