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I have Vista and did a recovery with automatic data backup. Did I lose my photos or are they saved somewhere? How can I find them? Please help!
If you selected automatic data backup, then your photos have been saved and stored as long as you selected "pictures" as one of the file types that you wanted to save. Just to make sure I cover all angles for you, I am going to briefly go over a few things and provide solutions that should work to recover your photos.
Vista Backup with Data Recovery
Windows Vista makes backing up data easy with the special built-in feature that allows data recovery. In fact, users are offered four important ways to secure the existence of data including backing up the computer, backing up files, restoring files, and restoring the computer.
File Backup Wizard in Windows Vista
When you use the File Backup Wizard in Windows Vista, it prompts you with:
- Which files you want to back up
- Where you want to store the files (CD, DVD, server, hard disk, external hard disk)
- When you want to run the backup
Data Backup in Windows Vista
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When Windows Vista backs up files, it saves them as zip files. The backup feature in Vista places the data it saves into a series of zip folders, each of which have a maximum capacity of 200 MB. The files are labeled in this way: "Backup files 2.zip," "Backup files 3.zip," etc. Vista backup saves files of similar type to the same zip whenever possible. Therefore, your photos should be located together in one or more zip folders.
How to Locate Your Data Backup in Windows Vista
If you want to locate your photos, then you need to open the media used for the data backup (CD, DVD, server, hard disk, external hard disk.) Next, you need to browse through the zip folders until you locate the files that you want. The file extension will be the same as the original file extension. Common file extensions for images include: .gif, .bmp, .jpeg, .png, and .tiff.
Each of the files within the zip folder will have the same name. Therefore, you will probably want to extract and save all of them to a new folder that you create on your desktop. Give the folder a name that will help you to recognize its contents.
Rename each file when you save it to its new folder so that you don't end up with 10 files of the same name.
Data and Photo Recovery
If your photos seem to be missing, you can use a data recovery application for photo recovery. I can recommend DataRecovery, an application that can retrieve all sorts of missing data files including photos.
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Susan Keenan | June 1st, 2009
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