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Hi there. I recently accidentally deleted a bunch of NEF files. I thought they were duplicates, but they were not. The files (along with 1,000s of other NEF and JPEG) were on an external hdd I use to store my photo shoots on. The drive is 1 tb and is currently 60% "full". I am using an iMac that has a 1.28 TB fusion drive as the recovery destination. Given that my external hdd where my accidentally deleted files are also had had 1,000s of other photos deleted on purpose over time, a full recovery of this external hdd is larger than the free space I have available on the iMac.

My question is this... Can I have PhotoRec scan my external hdd for only NEF files from a certain date or date range? I know the photos I took were on date X and Y. Can I save myself from sorting through 1,000s of recovered files by doing a customized recovery?

If yes, can someone please advise as to how?

Thank you so much!

Sincerely,
Keith

PhotoRec can recover nef files, they are part of the TIFF file family.
But there is no date/time criteria in PhotoRec.

Thank you. How do I make the recovered TIF into an NEF?