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Recover a deleted photo

Hi,
A kid got hold of my phone and deleted a photo I took earlier in the day. Is there any way of getting it back?
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Assuming, its on a iphone you could restore from the last iphone sync backup.. Just go into itunes and restore it.
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I took it earlier today. Hadn't synced yet. Yip it's my iPhone. I have recovery software. But it doesn't see the iPhone as a device. :( I saw the little twerps finger going for the big red button. Just didn't manage to stop it in time. It was a picture of a giraffe kissing my head. I hid some giraffe food on my head and had someone ready to take it. Not something I can easily reproduce.
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Seems like a plan, but the app keeps crashing as soon as I connect the device - on my win 7 laptop and on my XP desktop.
I have a mac at work - I can try connect it - but I don't have any mac data recovery software.
Steven
I would try it on yet another Windows-based machine, preferably one that you don't own.  Perhaps there's some other software running on both your Win7 machine and your XP machine (which might not be running n other people's...) that's interfering?  
:) I'll give that a try :)
Tried on another XP workstation at work.
On there the application crashes as soon as you try open it - the others only crashed when I plugged the device in.
:(
Perhaps it's time I give up - the file might even be overwritten by now with all this plugging and unplugging.
I saw a youtube clip about booting the phone into a tempory OS and pulling a disk image off it, but I don' think my recovery software will read an image - I only have a "home user" licence.
Steven
Weird, the application doesn't crash for me -- though of course that's no help to you.

I wonder if you might be able to get some support on the application from the people who make it.  Perhaps they can tell you why it's crashing.  It works for lots and lots of people...

Also... there shouldn't be anything to "open."  That is, the way it's SUPPOSED to work is you install the application, and then it just runs in the background.   After installing it, you'd go to Windows Explorer and find your iPhone listed as drive D: or drive E:  

Are you downloading it fresh from their site for each machine you're trying to load it on?  If you keep trying to install from the same copy, perhaps there's something wrong with that copy.

Yip, I download it from them.
After installing the box to run the application is ticked. and a screen comes up asking you to register in 15 days. I see there's also an icon in the system tray. when the app crashes that icon disappears.
I'd really like to get it back - but it's not the end of the world - I'll just have to make another trip out to the lion park and be brave again :)
Steven
You're giving up too  easily!  :-)

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, bring your iPhone over, and we'll attach it to my system, and get your picture back.

I live in the Johannesburg area in South Africa :)

I can plug it into a linux box and give you SSH access. But I'm more curious about learning how things work then just having it done :)
Johannesburg is a little outside my service area, sorry.  And I would've let you attach it to my system, and then use the system to get the picture back yourself...

I wonder if the iphonedisk software's problem is that it isn't compatible with a South African installation of Windows?  (That is, with Zimbabwean English or whatever set as the regional setting; please excuse my ignorance.)

I wonder whether it might work if, as an experiment, you went into Control Panel, and set Regional and Language Options, just temporarily, to "English (United States)," assuming that's not how it's set now ?

Does itunes need to be open?

I'm set to South African English - but I can change that to try.
Zimbabwe is a whole other country - a 3rd world country with lot of problems - we take all their millions of illegal refugees.
nope, still stops responding as soon as I plug it in
iTunes doesn't need to be open, but does need to be present.  What version of iTunes are you running?
I'm on 10.1.2.17

I think my XP PC at home was version 9.something.

Steven.
Hmph, 10.1.2.17 is current, so nothing wrong there.