I was lending a hand to Mum to burn some work-related photos onto a CD. With no spares in place, I had no choice but to erase a CD-RW. Using Disk Utility, I unknowingly selected the SD card which contained all the photos taken with my T100 and erased it. I couldn’t be more careless!

At that moment, Mum was going bonkers and I couldn’t blame her. I would too if I was her.

Then I remembered CardRaider; the application which I bought for USD $19.95. It only works on a Mac. Sorry Windows users!

This application was described as the easiest and most affordable way to recover lost photos from your digital camera, memory card or thumb drive. At first, I found it hard to believe and decided to try it for myself.

During my Mount Kinabalu trip, I had accidentally deleted some photos but only realized it when I had descended the mountain. I was irate at my own stupidity. I tried the demo version and it amazingly recovered my deleted photos in a reduced image size, nothing purchasing the full version can’t do away with.

When I made that big boo boo of erasing the volume, I wasn’t optimistic that the photos could be eventually recovered. CardRaider came to the rescue yet again and continues to impress me. I couldn’t believe that I was looking at the photos which I had thought was gone forever.

Mum breathed easier now and so did I.

This is one application a careless Mac user like myself can’t do without.

If you are still fighting with your inner voice on whether to purchase this application, ask yourself this:

“Is USD $19.95 worth recovering the special moments which you have carelessly lost?”

I know I would gladly fork out this small price in exchange for the countless captured moments I lost.