Recovering photos from memory card: Ubuntu

Yesterday I had to go through a nightmare of losing all the pics on my memory card when I had not taken a backup. Thus began my hunt for recovery softwares and online solutions most of which didn't work for me until I found 'recoverjpeg' for ubuntu which is very easy to use.

Hence I thought of sharing the steps with you all.

Step 1: Install recoverjpeg

          sudo apt-get install recoverjpeg       

Step 2: Assuming your drive is mounted at /dev/sdb1, run the following on the terminal

           sudo recoverjpeg /dev/sdb1

Step 3: The above step will store the recovered files in your Home directory which will be owned by the root. You can copy all the recovered files to a folder and run the following command to change the ownership

           sudo chown -R youruser:youruser /home/username/Desktop/backup

Here /home/username/Desktop/backup is the folder where I copied all my recovered files.
For Step 2, if you are not sure about the location where your drive is mounted, go to /dev/disk/by-label and then right-click-->properties on the file with the name of your mounted drive. The 'link-target' information on properties tab will give the location of where the drive is mounted.

Thats all!! Photos recovered in 3 easy steps!!!
Happy Photo-recovering !!!

photo courtesy: Google