Be it lost photos or videos, If you are missing data on your SD card, you should know that there are chances of being able to recover it. However, you will need to act fast. this article will teach you everything that you need to know to recover all your photos and videos form your SD card.
Let’s have a look on all those SD card data loss situation
Disk needs to be formatted
You might have come across a “Disk needs to be formatted” message when you connect your SD card to your Mac computer. After that you ejected the SD card and once again inserted the card, but nothing changed and same message appeared. Then you realized that you need to format the SD card for using it again, thus losing all your pictures and video clips. This type condition mainly happens, due to hardware / software conflicts or if you switch between Mac OS and Windows.
Sync Error
This occurs while trying to synchronize files from your camera / camcorder to the computer. You unexpectedly removed the SD card or disconnected the device, the error will take place causing deletion of files from both the places.
Compatibility Error
This happens if you use your SD card in different – different recording devices.
Other reasons
Other reasons include accidental deletion, low battery or corrupted file system .
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Steps to Recover Deleted and Lost Files from SD Card
- At first you need to download Yodot Mac Data Recovery application to your Mac system and install it
- In order to restore photos or videos or any other file from your SD card, then you need to connect your SD card to the Mac machine through the built-in slot or with a USB adaptor
- After attaching the SD card, launch the app from the Applications Folder
- The main window appears with two options of SD card recovery; one is “Deleted Photo Recovery” and the other one is “Lost Photo Recovery”
- Make your selection as per the data loss situation you are facing and continue further
- Now, the software will search for all the drives present on your Macintosh, you can choose from the list of drives representing the SD card
- As you select the SD card drive, then the app will ask for the file type you need to retrieve
- You can select either the file types (i.e. pictures, music & videos, digital RAW images) or individual file formats (i.e. JPG, PNG, MP3, AVI, RAW, NEF etc) or skip this action and select all of them by default
- Once you click next, the software starts scanning the SD card drive and recover all the files from it
- Choose the files which are to be retrieved and preview them before proceeding to the save option
- For saving the recovered files, avoid the same SD card from which you are recovering
Precautionary Measures
- Use the write protection notch to secure the SD card from unwanted write operations
- Do not remove the SD card unexpectedly while using it
- Avoid storing your photos, videos etc in the SD card for a longer time; rather transfer them to your Macintosh on regular basis
- If the SD card memory is full, then avoid forcefully saving files
- Do not switch the SD card between different devices or dissimilar operating systems
- Do not store any new data to it; otherwise lost / deleted files will be overwritten with the new ones
