Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Colette: My daughter emailed me a really cute picture of my grandson while I was at work.
I saved the picture to my computer’s hard drive and then copied it onto a thumb drive.
I verified that the picture was on the thumb drive and then I deleted it from the computer (we’re not allowed to keep personal files on our work computers). [Read more…]
Have you ever accidentally deleted a photo, Microsoft Word document or some other file that you actually had no intention of deleting?
The fact is we have all done it at one time or another.
And guess what? When that happens, all might not be lost… [Read more…]
Question from Marie N.: I have an urgent question and I really hope you’ll have an answer for me.
I accidentally formatted the external USB hard drive that I use to store all of my scanned family photos with my Mac.
I meant to format the drive I use to store my Mac backups but I accidentally plugged in the wrong drive!
I hope you can help me recover my pics from it?
Question from Gabby H.: Rick, I made a really stupid mistake and I’m hoping you can help me out of a jam.
I’m not a pro photographer or anything, but I do love taking pictures, and I take a lot of them.
I use my trusty Canon Powershot camera with two SD cards (I swap them out when the first one becomes full).
What happened is I accidentally formatted the wrong card and wiped out a ton of pictures that I really want to keep. Is there any way to get those pictures back?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Jane C.: I made a huge mistake Rick and I hope you can help me.
I accidentally clicked “Format” on the wrong drive and ended up formatting a USB flash drive with over 100 important photos on it!
Is there any way to “unformat” a drive that was formatted by mistake? Or maybe there’s some other way to retrieve the files?
I’ll be heartbroken if I’ve lost all those pictures!
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]