Rescue Files when Memory Card Says Folder is Empty

In some unfortunate situations memory card may show abnormal behavior without any prior intimation and make your data unreachable. One such condition is appeared when memory card says folder is empty error message in system, mobile phone, digital camera, etc while assessing its data. As memory cards are intended to save sensitive data like photos, music files, movies and may more on digital gadgets; so it becomes distressing situation for any user when card shows folder is empty error message. Let us discuss some of the reasons behind such act of memory card:

• Unexpected interruptions while transferring files from memory card to computer or vice versa
• Using same memory card on various devices or platforms
• Virus attack on the memory card leads to its file system corruption
• Unintentionally disconnecting the memory card during read / write process

When memory card says folder is empty, you can resolve the issue by using below steps:

• Go to Start button –> select Run –> type cmd
• Now you will get a command prompt dialog box
• If your memory card has I: as drive name, then type this command: attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*
• Now check for your valuable files and folder

In case you fail to find out files in memory card using these steps, then it is not required to worry. You can retrieve missing or unreadable files from memory card using powerful card recovery software such as Yodot Photo Recovery.

Memory card recovery software:

Yodot Photo Recovery is wonderful card retrieval software to bring back files when memory says folder is empty error on Windows system. The application has the capability to rescue lost / missing files such as photos (JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TIF, GIF, BMP, PSD, WPG, PSP, PIC, PCX, etc), videos / audios (AVI, AVS, ASF, ASX, 3GP, DIVX, MOV, M4V, WMV, XVID, AIFF, MPEG, MPG, AIF, AMR, M4A, M4B, MP3, MP4, WAV, etc), RAW images and many more from memory card that shows folder is empty or other error message. You can extract files from various models and brands of memory cars such as SD cards, CF card, XD card, MMC card and many others. Moreover, you can even restore deleted or lost files from hard drives, memory stick, external hard drives, pen drives and other storage components. The utility smoothly works with Windows systems installed with Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and 2003 operating systems.

It is not always your memory card, makes you distressed by screening the error message folder is empty. Sometimes it’s you, who is wondering that can I find my Picasa photos after deletion? No worries! In such unintentional data loss situations also you can rely upon Yodot.

Simple steps to recover data after memory card say empty folder error:

• Download and install Yodot Photo Recovery application to your Windows system
• Attach the affected memory card via USB or card reader to that system
• Open the software and follow the  main screen instructions
• Use “Lost Photo Recovery” option to revive data when memory card says folder is empty
• The program scans and displays all the internal and external drives present on the system
• Select the partition that represents your memory card and click on “Next” button
• The tool scans the entire memory drive and displays all the missing or inaccessible files and folders
• Mark the files which you want to rescue back and you can also preview the files before saving them
• Finally, browse for the destination location in order to save your retrieved data on system or any other storage device (However not to the same memory card)

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