[Wylug-help] OT - desperate Adove Photoshop Elemets help req

[James Holden]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:55:14PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> one of the lads at work has managed to delete his wedding photos from his 
> laptop.

Oops... that's what backups are for :-)

> The only things left are the thumbnails within the Adobe Photoshop Elements 
> program.

Does anyone else have copies? Has he emailed them to anyone?

> Does anyone know how I can extract these thumbnails back into image files so 
> that he can put them onto a desktop photo viewer

I don't see how the thumbnails will be any use - they will be small and
low resolution. You might as well screen capture them.

If you want to have any chance whatsoever of recovering the original
files from the disk, you must stop anything writing to the disk **NOW**.

Right now, the data will still be there. If the laptop is booted up,
background processes will be eroding the data as they go about their
business writing to the disk.

You need to boot off a live CD, then use "dd" to make an exact snapshot
of the disk onto an external hard drive.

Once you have the snapshot, you can loopback mount it on a different
machine and attempt to recover the files.

(Or, if it's that important, send it to a data recovery firm like
Ontrack[1])

Cheers,

James

[1] http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/file-recovery/

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