[Digikam-devel] [Bug 141313] New: Recover lost images from flash memory / camera.

[Louis Roederer]

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           Summary: Recover lost images from flash memory / camera.
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.9.0
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: louis.roederer gmail com


Version:           0.9.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

It would be great if Digikam had a tool to recover lost/deleted pictures from flash memory.  I currently use testdisk/photorec to do it, but it's command line (yuck).  Maybe code can be borrowed from them?  I would also appreciate any info regarding any GUI-based linux apps that can do this already, but I'm really hoping Digikam will someday do it for me.
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[Gilles Caulier-2]

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------- Additional Comments From caulier.gilles gmail com  2007-08-30 12:42 -------
Arnd, Gerhard, Mik, Fabien, etc...

I would to have your viewpoints about this feature. Is really a good idea to include this tool in digiKam ? And somebody have any experience with this tool ?

Gilles
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------- Additional Comments From arnd.baecker web de  2007-08-30 13:19 -------
I am pretty much against it: just stick to one tool for one job.
If really a gui is needed, this should be done directly
for these programms.
Also it would mean to keep track of changes of that code.

(Still it is handy to have these programms installed for the case it
should ever happen ...;-)

So in my opinion: WONTFIX.
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------- Additional Comments From mikmach wp pl  2007-08-30 14:37 -------
Recovering of images is very broad and complicated subject - its size
begs for separate application. Definitely task not for Digikam.
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------- Additional Comments From louis.roederer gmail com  2007-08-30 15:15 -------
Looks like I'm in the minority.  Too bad.  I've lost and accidentally deleted pics from various memory cards several times, and it sucks not having a good linux program to recover them.  The Digikam camera interface seemed like a natural place to do this type of job.  I still love you guys (sheds a tear).
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------- Additional Comments From marcus jet franken de  2007-08-30 15:17 -------
check out:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

while it has a text ui, it works very nicely.
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From arnd.baecker web de  2007-08-30 15:36 -------
Louis, thanks a lot for your understanding!
(Should I add an entry to the FAQ about undeleting files, so that
the information is not lost and filing this bug had at least one
consequence? ;-)

closing this bug as WONTFIX.
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------- Additional Comments From louis.roederer gmail com  2007-08-30 16:38 -------
Marcus: In my original request, I did mention that I used PhotoRec to do this, but CLI is so 1970's.  All the memory cards I buy have cool GUI recovery tools, but only for Windows.  Thanks for the tip, though.

Arnd: Not necessary.  Just being able to have a conversation with the developers is enough, even when the answer is not the one I was hoping for.  At least it was openly considered.
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------- Additional Comments From mikmach wp pl  2007-08-30 17:14 -------
Louis - file it as a new wish for new kipi-plugin. This is more sensible
IMO.
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------- Additional Comments From louis.roederer gmail com  2007-08-30 17:21 -------
Mikolaj: Great idea.  I will do it.  Thanks.
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------- Additional Comments From gerhard kulzer net  2007-08-30 20:02 -------
I have quite some experience with the team testdisk/photorec, they are just perfect tools. I recovered even an iPod hfsplus partition entirely with it (even Diskwarrior for Mac couldn't achieve that).
I also find they are easy enough to use for somebody inexperienced, their only drawback is that one recovers the whole lot, not just the three files one accidentally deleted.

I would follow the advice of Arnd and stick to this great tool set. If you like a GUI, write to kde-apps, maybe somebody takes up the challenge to wrap photorec in a kommander script.

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------- Additional Comments From fabien.ubuntu gmail com  2007-08-31 10:32 -------
I also tested it recently. It works really great and can recover everything possible from a device.
If I remember correctly, the tool needs read access to the block device, so it may need some additional privileges (not just user, depending on distributions).
And I agree with Gerhard, you can only recover everything, not just a few files. In my case, it took 20 minutes (because my CF reader is very very slow)...
So, I'm not sure it's a good idea to embedded a frontend in digiKam or kipi-plugins. It would be better to have a standalone GUI for that.
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