iPod Recovery
Recover Photos from iPods
If you are using iPod Classic, iPod nano, iPod Mini and iPod Shuffle, iPod Touch, you can synchronize photos to your iPod using iTunes 4.7 and later versions. The different image file formats supported in iPods are listed below:
On Windows, iTunes 4.7 can recognize following file formats using Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop Album or selected folder of photos:
JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TIFF, PSD, SGI, and PNG
On Mac, iTunes 4.7 and later version can recognize following file formats from your iPhoto Library or selected folder of photos:
JPG, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, GIF, PNG, JPG2000 or JP2, PSD, SGI, and BMP
iTunes creates full-quality versions of your photos and stores them in a database on your computer so that you can add photos to your iPod much faster next time. There are many reasons why the photos in your iPod get corrupted. Few important reasons are discussed below:
- Synchronization: While using an iPod for viewing photos you cannot drag individual photos or groups of photos to the iPod like you can do with music files in iTunes, but you can choose how you want them to be synchronized by selecting the correct options. While synchronizing your iPod, photos can get corrupted or deleted
- Transferring: Suppose you want to transfer your photos from SD card to your iPod. First, you have to copy photos from SD card to your computer, and then you have to synchronize it using iTunes in your system to transfer them into your iPod. During this transfer process, there is a chance that your photos might get corrupted
- Accidental deletion: There is a ‘Restore’ option that has been provided in your iPod. If you have selected that option accidentally, iPod will get restored to the factory settings and you will lose all your photos. You may also lose photos from iPod by unintentionally deleting them
You have to be very careful while you are working with iPod. Here are a few precautions you need to follow which are essential if you want to recover lost or deleted photos from an iPod:
- Do not add new photo: If you have accidentally deleted an image from your iPod, do not add new images to the iPod if you want to recover the deleted image. Once you delete an image the space is made available so that new image can be stored but the data still resides in the iPod. In case you add new images or other media files, data will be overwritten and you will permanently lose the previous deleted photo
- Backup: Take a proper back up of all the photos before synchronizing iPods with the computer. In case you are transferring photos from external hard drive to iPods, proper backup is essential. Suppose you want to restore iPods to factory settings, you must take a backup before selecting ‘Restore’ option in iPod
What if you have lost all the photos from your iPod? If you have restored your iPod using factory settings option or deleted important photos, there is no need to fear. You can recover all your photos from iPod using iPod Recovery Software.
iPod recovery Software makes use of best algorithm and does a detailed scan to recover all deleted or lost images from your iPod. Making use of its user-friendly interface you can easily recover all your important photos.
Steps to recover deleted/lost photos from iPod
Step 1: Download and install iPod Recovery Software demo version, on Windows operating system and connect your iPod to your system, which will be detected as external hard drive
Step 2: Select “Recover photos” option as shown in figure 1
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Step 3: Select “Recover Deleted Photos” or “Recover Lost Photos” option depending on which photos you want to recover and then select the iPod from which the photo needs to be recovered as shown in figure 2
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Step 4: Select the “File Type” you want to recover and click on “Next” to start the recovery process. You can also skip the step by using skip button as shown in figure 3
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Step 5: Preview recovered photos prior to saving them, to evaluate the chances of recovery as shown in figure 4
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