How to Shred Photos from Digital Camera?

Lucien updated on Jun 06, 2022 to Data Erasure Solution

permanently delete photos from digital camera

“Hi, I will lend my Sony digital camera to my friends, but there are some embarrassing photos...is there any way to permanently delete these photos?” - Alisa

When you delete photos or videos from a digital camera, the deleted photos or videos are not lost forever. With data recovery software, you or anyone else can easily get the deleted photos/videos back. If you want to permanently delete some sensitive photos before you sell, donate your digital camera or lend it to other people, you need special data erasure tool.

How to permanently delete photos from digital camera?

Data erasure software can help you permanently delete data from hard drive or external storage device. In this article, we will introduce an easy-to-use data erasure program - Donemax Data Eraser to help you securely and permanently delete photos from a digital camera.

Donemax Data Eraser offers powerful and certified data erasure standards to help both Windows and Mac users to permanently erase data from computer, HDD, SSD, USB flash drive, digital camera, memory card, etc. Once the data is erased by Donemax Data Eraser, the erased data is lost permanently, can't be recovered by any data recovery software.

Donemax Data Eraser

  • Powerful, safe and easy-to-use data erasure software to help you securely and permanently erase data from digital camera or other disk drive, storage device.
  • 100% safe, it will not cause any damage to your digital camera or memory card.
  • Three flexible data erasure modes: erase files, erase hard drive, erase free space.
  • Supports to permanently erase data from any type of camera or memory card.

If you only want to shred some specific photos from a digital camera, just follow the steps below:

Step 1. Open Donemax Data Eraser on your computer and connect the digital camera to your computer.

permanently delete photos from digital camera

Step 2. Choose first data erasure mode - Erase Files. Then click Add to add photos from the digital camera to the erasure list.

permanently delete photos from digital camera

Step 3. You will see the photos in the erasure list, and then click on Erase Now button.

permanently delete photos from digital camera

Donemax Data Eraser will permanently erase the selected photos. Once the process gets finished, the photos are gone forever, can't be recovered by any data recovery software. It also can help you permanently erase files from digital camera memory card.

permanently delete photos from digital camera

As you know that this software is able to permanently shred your data, so, you'd better make a backup before you use it to permanently erase your files.

Donemax Data Eraser offers three data erasure modes. The first mode can help you selectively shred photos from your digital camera. The second mode - Erase Hard Drive is able to help you completely wipe your digital camera - all data on the digital camera will be erased permanently.

If you only want to permanently erase already deleted data from your digital camera, just try the third mode - Erase Free Space. This mode will help you securely and permanently erase deleted data from your camera - it will not affect the existing data.

Donemax Data Eraser is a 100% safe data erasure program. It will not shorten the service life of your digital camera/memory card. It also can help you permanently erase data from Solid State disk drive, hard disk drive, USB flash drive, memory card, digital camcorder, RAID, Server, SD card, etc. Download it here: