I overwritten my friend's wedding photos with MS Office Picture Manager by mistake, is there any way to recover them? Please ...please if anyone know the method, please give me a hand!! Thank you! Ms Tsui

I'm not sure how you could 'overwrite' the pictures. They can be deleted, but how you could 'overwrite' them is beyond me. But anyway, you can try a file recovery program to see if they can be recovered. But to do this you should physically remove the hard drive from the system, install it as a slave or external drive on another system to try the recovery. Here are some options for file recovery Free but only good for accidental deletes PC Inspector http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcinsp... Zero assumption Recovery http://www.z-a-recovery.com The demo is limited It will only recover'up to' four folders per run But you can make multiple runs Ontrack's 'Easy Recovery' http://www.ontrack.com File Scavenger http://www.snapfiles.com/get/filesc... GetDataBack http://www.runtime.org/

Howdy aegis just an FYI - overwrite occurs when you save file over an existing file with the same name and extension. When you do this, you are prompted to confirm or cancel the operation. Files that are overwritten are difficult if not impossible to recover. i_Xp/VistaUser

Yup XpUser, you are right. Maybe that's what myroseneverdie did, but why (and how) would someone overwrite a bunch of photo files with different photos? It doesn't make sense to me. I can understand someone accidently overwriting one file, but a whole bunch? Wedding pictures usually come in dozens if not hundreds.

I think he is speaking of digital pictures. In any case a 2GB SD card can hold over 500 images so if you are a camera freak hundreds is not unusual. i_Xp/VistaUser

No doubt deleting hundreds of pictures is normal, but we are talking about 'overlaying'. How in the heck can you accidently replace hundreds of pictures with different names with different files with identical names, is my point? Maybe this example will make clear what I mean: Say I give you a flash drive with a hundred pictures of my wedding. They are named normally like this: Sam and Joe.jpg Uncle Fred.jpg The new couple.jpg Alex and aunt Mary.jpg etc etc How would you go about accidently 'overlaying' (not deleting) all of them?

Now I get it. Let's hope the OP will post back and explain what really happened. i_Xp/VistaUser