Canon: pictures gone - how do I find them again?

In this practical tip we will show you what you can do if pictures, photos or files from your Canon camera are suddenly gone.

When the Canon pictures are gone

Recuva is a free file recovery program. It allows you to restore pictures, photos or other files from the memory card of your Canon camera when you are away. This can happen, for example, if you accidentally pressed the wrong key. Or you have deleted a file from the cache and only then found that the transfer to your PC failed. We will show you all the important steps again in our picture gallery.

1. The program is available for Windows and as a portable version.
2. The downloaded archive only needs to be unpacked for installation. To do this, open the archive "rcsetup1.5.2_slim.zip" with your preferred packing program - for example with WinZip.
3. Click "Extract All Files".
4. Enter the target directory and go to "Extract".

Recover Canon pictures and files

With the Recuva program, you can restore pictures, photos or other files such as videos that have disappeared on your Canon camera. We have summarized the most important steps in our picture gallery.

1. First connect your Canon camera to your PC using the connection cable provided. Alternatively, you can also use a card reader for your Canon SD card.
2. Then start Recuva. If you are using a 32-bit operating system, click "recuva.exe". For a 64-bit operating system, use "recuva64.exe".
3. Go to "Next" in the welcome screen.
4. Then activate "All Files" and select "Next". Alternatively, you can of course only select a certain file type, such as photos, music or video files.
5. In the next step, take "In a specific location", go to "Browse" and select the camera or your SD card.
6. Then start the search with "Start". With "Enable Deep Scan" you can initiate a more detailed search. However, this takes more time. Therefore, you should only activate the option if your files were not found after a normal search.
7. Recuva will then show you all the files found. Check all the pictures, photos and files you want to recover and click on "Recover".
8. Next, select the target directory where you want to restore the files. Then start the restore with "OK".
9. Finally there is the success message "Operation Completed", which you can confirm with "OK".

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Unzip the archive to install Recuva.

Select the target directory.

Start the program. Select "recuva.exe" for a 32-bit Windows and "recuva64.exe" for a 64-bit Windows.

The welcome screen is displayed.

Select the file type you want.

Select your Canon camera or SD card.

Start the search.

Select the files you want to restore.

Set the target directory.

The restore is complete.

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