Compact Flash Undeletion

We made a mistake recently and wiped our camera's Compact Flash card with Picasa without actually retrieving any of the pictures, losing about 90 pictures in the process. After wading through dozens of USD$40 programs offering to undelete files from various filesystems and devices, I ran across Restoration 2.5.14, a free undelete utility that said that some users had reported worked on Flash memory.

I had to purchase a cheap Compact Flash reader so I could get a drive letter mapped to my CF card, but once done, Restoration worked just fine. I was able to restore the majority of my pictures. The only annoyance was that it allows you to restore only one picture at a time, but it was a small price to pay to have the pictures back.

Nelson and Jules (Rufus)

I love this picture from March of Nelson and the newest cat, Jules. Jules also goes by Rufus, which rhymes with something he frequently behaves like.