Many thanks to the large number of people who replied from various lists with suggestions to solve last night's memory card crisis. Apologies for sending a generic thanks to everyone, but there's too many of you to reply to individually! Who would have thought there'd be so many underemployed photographers around the world with nothing better to do than just sit at their computers waiting to solve other people's tech problems.

Judging from the number of people who asked to be told what the solution was lots of you are planning a similar exciting deadline experience, so here's what I've got. PhotoRescue from DataRescue is the winner. It salvaged the vast majority of images easily; why it failed on a couple I've no idea. At $29 it's a bargain and a life-saver, so if you don't already have it you know what to do. Lexar's image rescue software works ok on their cards, but fails totally on others, or at least did on my sick Kingston card: the programme simply crashed repeatedly.

Here's a cut out and keep list of data rescue sources various people sent:

http://www.datarescue.com
http://www.imagerecall.com/default.asp
http://www.lexarmedia.com/readers/index.htm
http://www.wildbits.com/rescue/
http://www.imagerecall.com
<http://www.prosofteng.com/products/picture_rescue.php?PHPSESSID=127a94c54efe69d9a1a4644b6c129b8a>http://www.prosofteng.com/products/picture_rescue.php?PHPSESSID=127a94c54efe69d9a1a4644b6c129b8a
<http://www.photosrecovery.com>http://www.photosrecovery.com
<http://www.pcinspector.de>http://www.pcinspector.de
<http://www.filerescue.com>http://www.filerescue.com
<http://www.handyrecovery.com>http://www.handyrecovery.com
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/zaimagerecovery.html
http://www.bitmart.net/r2k.shtml
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

And if none of those work I recommend a bottle of bourbon, some brightly coloured pills and a revolver...

Jeremy Nicholl
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