I cant recover my pictures when i plug in my Vivitar ViviCam 5024 to the USB cable. I dont know if they are all lost or is there a certain place to look on my PC files?

You can recover deleted pictures from digital camera with asoftech photo recovery program, you can download the program from
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Asoftech-Photo-Recovery.shtml

Hi there,
First try to take out the SD card of your digital camera and connect it into a PC with a card reader.Now you are able to view your photos.
If it fails,your photos were lost dut to some reason.Then you can recover them with a data recovery program to recover them.I have succeed to recover photos from formatted SD card with Tenorshare Data Recovery.If needed,have a try.
Recover pictures from SD card of digital camera

For digital Camera photo recovery:
To recover accidently deleted photos from the camera ,you can do as follows:
1.Stop using your camera right now
2.Download the Hodo photo recovery online and then install it to your PC
3.Connect your memory card to the PC with a Card Reader
4.Open the photo recovery software and follow the list steps to recover:
http://www.goshareware.com/resource/canon-photo-recovery.html

Hi, cfamcfam3! You can recover your lost photos from your Vivitar ViviCam 5024 if they were in the memory card. Download the card photo recovery software and learn more here: http://www.best-computer-software.com/how-to/memory-card-photo-recovery.html Best wishes!

Connect your camera to your PC and make sure the camera is on or in USB mode. Then double-click on the MY Computer icon on your desktop after about 30 seconds or so. Look for a drive titled "USB Mass Storage Device" or a name similar to the company of the camera or the actual camera's model. Look though those folders after you double-click on the previously mentioned iconand you should be able to find your pictures. If that fails, you can buy an SD card reader for around $8 at wal-mart and try putting your SD card from the camera in there and seeing if that works. If those 2 options do not work, than the files somehow were lost or they have become unrecoverable.

Two things you can try here. One is making sure you have all the firmware for the camera downloaded to your computer. Next you can try taking the SD card out (I am assuming it takes an SD memory card) and putting it into a memory card reader. That will transfer all your pics to your computer. The camera saves the pictures on the memory card so connecting it directly to your computer via a card reader should do the trick.