On Sunday afternoon, following the Atlanta Falcons win over the Arizona Cardinals, I noticed that 3 of my compact flash cards were corrupting upon ingest. Once the discs were corrupted, they no longer showed any signs of being filled with data; it was as if they were cleanly formatted.

I am a deadline sports photographer for US Presswire, and it is critical that my images be available during the game and immediately following the game. Unfortunately, the solutions that I had with me at the time were not cooperating and appeared to be taking quite some time to process, if they were at all.

That evening after reading several reviews, I purchased Picture Rescue from Prosoft Engineering, and within 1 hour, I had recovered over 4 gigs worth of data in both RAW and JPEG formats. Picture Rescue displayed all of my recovered files in thumbnail view, and copying them to another folder was as simple as "select all" and "drag and drop."

Much to my surprise, my RAW files were completely editable, as if they had never been lost.

There is no doubt that, while working on assignment, Picture Rescue will be with me at all times.

Paul Abell, AbellCreative - Photography & Graphic Design