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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Recover RAW Photos from Canon—CRW/CR2 Recovery

RAW images get lost/deleted accidentally without any backup? Here’s a way to do crw/cr2 recovery on Mac OS.

RAW image file (CRW & CR2)

Camera raw image files, also known as digital negatives, contain minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor. 


CRW is Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format. This format is for some earlier Canon digital cameras.  It has been superseded by CR2, however. Raw files can contain text information about the picture and conditions in the camera when the picture was taken.  So, raw image files are very important for digital camera users especially for those enthusiastic/professional photographers.

Main Reasons of RAW Files loss need to be Taken Care of

Human Errors  This is a very common factor which leads to raw image files loss. You attempt to preview or do other operations, but delete them from SD card, camera, PC, etc. unexpectedly.  Or one moment you abandon them and then delete them, but next time you realize that these deleted pictures deserve your attention.

 Transfer Issue  If sudden power surge happens while transferring pictures from digital camera to PC, you may suffer RAW files loss. Disaster may also happen to you if you disconnect digital camera/SD card with PC while data transfer/process is ongoing.

File System Corruption  Corruption to the file system in hard disk / memory card leads to inaccessibility and in turn results in data loss which contained your RAW image files. Corruption happens in many situations, such as virus attack, switching off camera / camcorder during file transfer, etc.

Unwise Format  Sometimes, you’re forced to format your drive /partition or camera from the system containing your RAW files by a message like “Disk needs to be formatted”.

CRW/CR2 Recovery with Softtote Photo Recovery

Since significant RAW image files can be easily lost due to so many reasons mentioned above, it is necessary to keep RAW image file recovery software in hand.
1. Download and install it on your Mac.

 2. Select module "Photo" to narrow scanning range and save time.

3. Check in correct category to find out target crw/cr2 files after scanning finish.

4. Preview and recover.

5. Save. It is highly recommended to save them to another drive to avoid overwrite.

     


It’s really easy to handle this app. Meanwhile, not only can it recover crw/cr2 files, it can achieve other raw recovery, like .nef recovery, .orf recovery, .raf recovery, and other common digital camera raw image files recovery.

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