Connecting to Camera, UnErasing Photo (was RE: [NCLUG] Linux Alternatives & Necessities for Home Use)

[bsimpson at att.net]

Rich,

> I don't even know what application I used to connect - I plugged the 
> camera in, and a file browser window popped up with my pictures 
> displayed in it. From there, I think it would have been a drag & drop 
> affair to put them in the filesystem. All this is with reference to a 
> KRUD/Fedora Core 3 system; other distros might have more or less 
> user-friendliness built in. 

My FC3 system used to automatically mount a CD or USB memory stick
and bring up a file browser window, but something changed and it
no longer does that.  I have to manually mount them.  Not sure how
to manually mount my digital camera.

> I think I was expecting to use KPhoto (?) but never had to open it. 
> 
> Brian, if you have a camera with "erased" photos on it that you want to 
> recover, I'm not the best person to ask - I've only been doing this with 
> linux for about 16 hours. But I know that some cameras have a switch 
> you can set that tells the camera to act like a USB mass storage device. 
> If you have this control, or if you can just use a card reader (usually 
> only ~$20) instead of the camera, you should be able to browse the 
> camera's card as a mounted drive and see if the file is really gone. 

I believe my camera already acts a mass storage device.  Under WinXP
it acts as another drive, and I can transfer images with Win Explorer.

> If you're looking at it in the file system and it's just not there, now 
> you're talking about whether some file recovery application will work, 
> and I'm not sure what to tell you there. 

This is probably what I want to do:  adjust the file allocation table
so the file is restored.

Brian S