File Recovery

[erl]

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I have just made the basic mistake of formatting my Lexar 16GB card in my M10. It contained files I had failed to download, which whilst not vital, I would like to recover.

Is there any hope, a technique etc that does not cost an arm and a leg to recover my files?

Advice appreciated. Thank you.

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[Ouroboros]

Do not use the card since formatting it.  Try this, you should be able to recover most, if not all of your missing files as long as you haven't overwritten them.  You'll no doubt recover many more  files that are lurking in the card directory.

[erl]

Will try that later tonight. Thanks.

[Anbaric]

Here is a tool I've found very effective:

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

You can try more than one of these tools in sequence, but (as above) don't write anything to the card until you are satisfied you have recovered everything you can. Test the recovered files to make sure they are not corrupt.

[stunsworth]

On 3/11/2021 at 4:48 AM, Ouroboros said:

Do not use the card since formatting it.  Try this, you should be able to recover most, if not all of your missing files as long as you haven't overwritten them.  You'll no doubt recover many more  files that are lurking in the card directory.

Thanks, I’ve been looking for something to that for a while.

I tested it on a formatted card and it recovered almost all of the photos. This was on an M1 Mac Mini.