We take billions of photos everyday. We will take more photos this Holiday season than any previous season. Facebook users, for example, have taken more than 10 billion photos so far and continue to upload 2 billion photos every month! We also lose a lot of photos to deletions, formats, to media corruption, and device failures. About 200,000 people look for a way to recover deleted photos on Google every month. We are happy to have helped a lot of them recover their precious photos.

You should know that even if you lose photos you can recover them. Deleted, corrupted photos can certainly be recovered. Photo recovery software like Adroit Photo Recovery can help you restore those photos. However, it is always safer to not have to worry about photo recovery, and one of the ways you can protect your photos is by following this little known tip:

Tip: Delete less frequently in big batches.

Delete photos less frequently from your camera. Postpone your delete until you have a large number of photos that need deletion.

Follow this simple mantra when you take photos and you will not only be able to prevent accidental deletions or corruptions but also be able to recover more photos in case of accidents.

For the most of us, taking a photo is usually a four-step process:

• Compose a scene
• Capture a photo
• Examine the photo
• Keep it or delete it

Postponing the last step of deleting a photo until the memory card is full (or nearly full) can help prevent accidents. Frequent deletion of photos creates two problems:

• It increases the chances of accidentally deleting or corrupting a photo or triggering a device failure.
• It creates many small free slots (or “holes”) in the memory cards making it difficult to recover deleted photos.

The advantages of deleting photos en masse is that there are fewer chances of accidents (because you will not delete often) and the holes created by deletion are likely to be larger making the likelihood of photo recovery higher.