The first version of GoPro recovery has now been released. It is being sold at an introductory price of $9.50 for a life time licence and full support. This is a basic version, but will recover deleted videos from all GoPro camera sD memory chips.
Future developments will include processing unfinalised files and lost video fragments. The later may have useful forensic applications.
For download, go to www.goprorecovery.co.uk
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Finding owner of data
On a recent walk along a Californian beach I found a compact camera, covered in sand and salt water. The camera was very dead, but out of interest I eventally managed to extract the 2GB SD memory card. After drying it out, it was readable with errors. When totally dry, it read without errors.
I was keen to try and contact the owner and return the photos, over 500 of them. Unfortunately, there is very little on a memory chip to tell you about an owner, only the camera, and date and time of the photos. From this I could determine that the last photo had been taken about 10 days before I found the camera. I did try and add a 'Found camera' to a local lost and found website, but no reply.
Recently, I did a bit more investigation by looking at the photos more closely. Obviously the owner was a young person, with lots of photos in night clubs, no names identifiable, but also some at a college. One photo though I do hope will be a major clue is that it includes, possibly the owner, or close friend holding a college certificate with their unusal surname name on it. A bit of Googling took me to Facebook, and I hope a perfect match. (The name and college course both match, and the photo looks similar). I have now sent a message to the person, and am waiting for a reply.
The moral of the story is that if you want goods returned, it can be helpful to have some return details stored with it.
As a post script, the owner did contact me and a DVD of photos was sent. I have just received a very nice letter of thanks.
I was keen to try and contact the owner and return the photos, over 500 of them. Unfortunately, there is very little on a memory chip to tell you about an owner, only the camera, and date and time of the photos. From this I could determine that the last photo had been taken about 10 days before I found the camera. I did try and add a 'Found camera' to a local lost and found website, but no reply.
Recently, I did a bit more investigation by looking at the photos more closely. Obviously the owner was a young person, with lots of photos in night clubs, no names identifiable, but also some at a college. One photo though I do hope will be a major clue is that it includes, possibly the owner, or close friend holding a college certificate with their unusal surname name on it. A bit of Googling took me to Facebook, and I hope a perfect match. (The name and college course both match, and the photo looks similar). I have now sent a message to the person, and am waiting for a reply.
The moral of the story is that if you want goods returned, it can be helpful to have some return details stored with it.
As a post script, the owner did contact me and a DVD of photos was sent. I have just received a very nice letter of thanks.
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