Restore Hidden Pictures

“I have downloaded certain photos which I got it from my friend. Upon downloading photos, I have deleted mail containing those pictures. Now when I visited location which has downloaded images, all the photos were in hidden state. If I click on particular photo to display, it displays nothing but a blank black window. I really don’t have idea what went wrong. Has anyone faced this type of situation and got answer? Please let me know, I want those pictures very badly”

Windows users may face this type of situation and lose vital pictures from it. By default Windows operating system hides few files from Explorer so that it does not get deleted or modified accidentally. It will help you to protect your files like photos, documents and folders. Finding hidden photos on your computer is very easy. Just click on “Organize” option present on Windows Explorer and hit on “Tools” on the menu. Upon clicking on “Folder and Search” options you will find a new window. Press on “View” tab and press on “Show hidden files and folders” button. Uncheck checkbox “Hide protected operating system files. Also uncheck “Hide file extensions for known file types” option. Hit on “Apply” option followed by “OK” in order to save the changes. This will allow you to view hidden photos on your computer.

Although this method works in most of the case, it fails to show hidden photos if they are infected with dangerous viruses such as Trojan, spyware, malware, Chernobyl, Code red, Sobig and so on. Few users bear in mind that their precious photos are not safe and might get lost due to any instances; hence they create backup of it. On the other hand few users are not aware of using Windows backup feature and lose them due to virus attack. Although you have lost images from your computer and external storage device, it is always possible to gain them back using Yodot Photo Recovery software.

Hidden pictures recovery software:

Yodot Photo Recovery is apt media recovery software that will securely restore hidden photos from computer hard drive or external storage drives after any unexpected reason. For instance it can recover pictures after virus attacks, formatting or corruption of storage drive, etc. One can get back hidden pictures in same state without making any changes to the original files during recovery. It will arrange recovered files in an easy pattern to select them according to their file extension or name of the file. One can easily operate this software to recover hidden generic and RAW image types including JPG, JPEG, IMG, PNG, PSD, GIF, PSP, BMP, TIFF, TIF, PIC, PCX, WEBP, EXI, DNG, RAF, KDC, RAW, NEF, CR2, NEF, CR2, CRW, 3FR, MRW, PEF, etc. If you have lost videos and music files from your computer or any other storage device, then you need not download extra software to regain them; because this software supports to retrieve even music and videos of various file formats and file size. Also, it has few recovery steps which will be completed soon and result will be quickly displayed to you.

Go through every step mentioned below to regain hidden pictures:

  • Download Yodot Photo Recovery software and install it to your computer
  • As soon as the installation process is done, run it to begin recovery of hidden photos
  • Main screen appears with two options which are “Deleted Photo Recovery” and “Lost Photo Recovery”
  • Click on “Lost Photo Recovery” option to recover hidden pictures from storage device
  • Within a second you will find another screen in which you have to select drive from where you need to restore images
  • Upon clicking on “Next” option, application starts to scan selected drive and displays recoverable files from it
  • Select required photo files or otherwise click on “Skip” option to choose all image files by default
  • Then recovered files will be displayed in two view types which are “Data View” and “File Type View”
  • Preview restored photos for confirmation and also their check quality and at last save them to location you prefer on your computer

Measures to Take:

  • Never allow viruses to infect files stored in hard drive or removable storage media and often run antivirus software
  • Do not try to commence manual way to unhide hidden files if you do not know the proper way

Other Popular Software

Yodot Photo Recovery (Windows)

Recover and restore deleted photos lost from your digital camera memory card or the images from your Windows PC. The software can recover all popular image types including popular audio and video files.

Yodot Mac File Recovery

The only undelete application for Mac that can recover deleted files from HFS+, HFSX partitions on Mac. The software also has the ability to recover lost files using RAW signature method.