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Plug it in
An old hard drive, a camera SD card, or a USB stick.
Old drives and camera cards
The photos are still on that drive.
All Media Recovery is for families who want the pictures back. Plug in an old hard drive or camera card. We find the photos and videos — the ones you can still open, and the ones that were deleted — and keep them in a gallery that is only yours.
A web page alone cannot read a raw drive. Deleted files need the desktop app. If you can already see the photos in a folder, Quick save in the browser is enough.
Recover your photos in 3 steps
02
Press recover
The desktop app reads the drive and looks for photos and videos, including ones that were deleted. It never writes back to that drive.
03
Keep them
What it finds is uploaded to a private gallery, with the date the camera recorded when that date is still in the file.
Desktop recovery
Pick the drive, then press one button. Quick mode copies the photos and videos still sitting in folders. Deep mode asks PhotoRec to carve deleted files from the raw drive, read-only, into a temporary folder on your computer, then uploads them.
Get the desktop appQuick save in the browser
If the files are already visible, choose the folder. We walk through it, skip duplicates, and upload with a progress bar. This cannot recover deleted files — browsers are blocked from reading a drive the way a recovery tool can.
Open quick saveWhat we look for
Everyday camera and phone files, plus the raw photos a DSLR leaves on a card.
- JPEG
- PNG
- HEIC
- GIF
- TIFF
- Canon CR2
- Nikon NEF
- Sony ARW
- Adobe DNG
- MP4
- MOV
- AVI
- MTS
- 3GP
- MKV
Read-only until you say otherwise
Recovery only reads the drive. After a verified upload, the desktop app can offer to format that card so you can use it again. It never does that on its own.
A private gallery
Your photos stay on your account. Nobody else gets a link unless you download them yourself.
Stored once
The same picture from two cards is kept a single time, matched by the contents of the file.
Free to start
Create an account and keep the photos. There is no charge at launch.