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Semi big disaster. Deleted accidental pictures for Trash. Recover?

Jonas Bengtsson

I was cleaning up some catalogs and emptied the Trash bin.
Before I start to do a rescue operation. 

Can I recover it from the Capture One backup.
To my knowledge it is just the database, and Adjustments that is backed up by Caputer One backup. Not the Originals. 
I haven't used the hard drive where the original RAW files are.

Best recovery program for pictures.

Their is a light, I have the .tifs for print with the correct adjustments.

Merry Christmas.

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  • Ian Wilson
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    Were your images stored inside the catalog (managed images) or in folders on your computer (referenced images)? 

    (1) If they were inside the catalog (managed) then when you emptied the trash they will have been completely deleted.

    (2) If they were referenced images, then when you emptied the trash you should have seen something like this.

    • If you chose the "remove from catalog" option, the images will still exist on your computer in the location in which they were previously stored, and you could import them again. 
    • If you chose the "Delete from Disk" option they will have been deleted from the computer. 

    So...

    If you can't simply reimport the images, the next thing is to ask whether you have a system back-up. If you are on a Mac, do you use Time Machine for backups? Could you retrieve the images from a backup made with Time Machine? Or do you use some other backup solution (whether Windows or Mac)?

    Ian

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  • Jonas Bengtsson
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    Thanks
    That was what I feared, and the backup disc include the misstake.
    So no backup for rescue.

    Now, hope is to a recovery program.
    Anyone know any really god one. Both for hard drive and SD-card.

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  • Richard Huggins

    You might want to review your back up strategy. Seems your back up is a mirror of your working drive. 

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  • Sharon Leibel
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    I would love to have a feature of moving to Trash Can/Recycle Bin when "Deleting from Disk" is used. It would have saved me a lot of grief :)

    @jenas Please vote for my idea: https://captureone.ideas.aha.io/ideas/FR-I-1879

     

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