We are always accustomed to use cameras to take photos in memory of our happiest moments. But there are so many times you may accidentally deleted photos from either cameras or computers after photos transferred. Similar questions such as "how to recover deleted photos?" can be seen here and there on the Internet.

Are deleted photos really gone?

If you just simply deleted photos and didn't do anything else, don't worry, you're very likely to recover these deleted photos. Because the deleted photos are not really gone, they just not listed there anymore but the data are still intact. If you deleted photos from Camera directly, the photo data are still stored on the camera memory card just inaccessible. If you deleted them from computer recycle bin or Shift Delete, those photos are marked as deleted but the real data are complete. In other words, those deleted photos are waiting to be written over. So if you put more files to the computer hard drive or take more photos with your camera, those deleted photos are very likely to be gone permanently. As we can see, if you want to recover deleted photos, first thing you need is to stop using the computer disk or camera to store more data before they are recovered.

3 Steps to recover deleted photos

As long as your deleted photos are not fully overwritten, it's highly possible to recover. And the best way is to try some photo recovery software. Follow the guide below, you will know how to recover photos with Wondershare Photo Recovery under Windows OS. If you are using Mac OS X, then turn to Photo Recovery for Mac. But the steps to recover deleted photos are quite similar.

step 1:

Download the free trial version of Wondershare Photo Recovery on your computer. Install it somewhere other than the disk or SD card that your deleted photos located. If your photos are deleted from digital camera, connect your camera memory card to the computer via a card read or so.

step 2:

Open the photo recovery software and you will find interface as below. Select the target disk where your photos deleted, and select the file type (all, photo, music, and video) and then click the button "Start Scan" to start the automatic scanning process.

step 3:

After a while you will there will be a lot of photos found and all are recoverable. Preview the found photos to confirm they are right what you are looking for. Then you need to purchase the software to activate. Click the button "Recover" and your deleted photos will be back to life again.

Useful tips when recover deleted photos

No matter you are Windows or Mac users, before your deleted photos are recovered, please do not attempt to put more files to the disk or take more photos. Meanwhile, better save the recovered photos to a different disk in order to successfully recover deleted photos.