[jewel]

My neighbor just did the exact same thing. The way FAT filesystems work is they change the first byte of the filename to an invalid character to make them a tombstone.

Since he hadn't used the SD card yet, we were able to restore the files with "TestDisk", a companion tool that ships with PhotoRec. Under "Advanced" there is an "Undelete" tool. This will let you browse the filesystem, find your missing files, and copy them to another drive.

For those old enough to remember, MSDOS came with undelete.exe which worked the same way.

[riffraff]

Years ago, I recovered some pics from my honeymoon this way after we accidentally deleted them because I knew FAT worked this way so I just went looking for them.

I've never felt so happy to be a techie.

[toast0]

> For those old enough to remember, MSDOS came with undelete.exe which worked the same way.

Available in MS-DOS >= 5.0. If you had MS-DOS 3.3, you didn't get any cool stuff like that. Couldn't even see hidden files!

[LeoPanthera]

Which is why Norton Utilities was so popular.