How to Restore Moved Photos?

I have lost set of images that I was moving from my Windows system to USB pen drive. All that caused this troublesome situation was abruptly pulling out the pen drive in middle of the process. Incomplete transfer process ended up in missing of all selected photos. Is there any possible method to rescue moved photos? Kindly suggest your valuable tips.

Moving photos from one location to another is one of the most frequently carried out process on electronic gadgets like computers. On Windows systems, users move photos from one location to another location using Cut and Paste option. Or one may use bMove to' option on selected images to transfer photos from Windows system hard drive to alternate storage devices. But, while moving images of huge file size, users may encounter various scenarios like:

  • Sudden system shutdown/power surge
  • Abruptly pulling out externally connected storage media
  • Insufficient space on destination drive to hold moved photos

All these instances may end up in missing pictures that were being moved. But, lost photos are not permanently removed and it can be recovered back with ease by employing good photo retrieval software like Yodot.

Moved pictures recovery software:

Yodot Photo Recovery is the excellent tool to get back moved pictures that are lost or erased due to interruptions during photo file transfer process. This tool is capable of extracting photos of various file formats like IMG, PIC, JPEG, JPG, TIF, GIFF, PNG, BMP; and RAW images of NEF, CR2, CRW, SRF, SRW, PEF, DNG, FFF, KDC, DC2, ORF, etc. It can excellently retrieve lost photos from computer after incomplete file transfer, virus attacks, mistakenly removing external storage drive or in any other unfriendly situations. Apart from photos, it can efficiently rescue music files and videos from memory cards, internal/ external hard drives, USB pen drives, SSDs and other digital storage media with utmost ease. This tool can be employed on desktops / laptops running with Windows XP, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and 2003 operating systems.

You can also run Mac version of this program to find photo files on iMac, iTunes, Mac Mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro devices, after facing data loss situations during transfer process.

Steps to regain lost moved photos on Windows:

  • Download and install Yodot Photo Recovery tool to Windows system (not on the same location from where your files are missing)
  • Run the utility by following instructions
  • Click on bLost Photo Recoveryb option to extract missing images
  • Select the drive / partition from which photos are lost
  • In file types choose "Picture" option
  • You will get list of restored image files in "File Type View" and "Data View"
  • Preview recovered photos using "Preview" option
  • If you are satisfied with recovery results, save files on safe location (not on the place from where it retrieved)

Things to keep in mind:

  • Do not use Cut and Paste option to move important pictures
  • Avoid interruptions while transferring images from Windows system to external storage devices or vice-versa

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.