How To Recover Deleted Files From Flip Video Camera?

Updated on January 25, 2023

The Flip cameras are a series of tapeless camcorders that use pure digital technologies for recording videos at High-definition quality. The Flip video camera is portable, simple to use, and reasonably priced. It allows you to capture the everyday moment that happen around you and share them with family and friends everywhere. Even though this Flip camera has so many advanced features compared to others, video files stored on this camera might easily get deleted or lost under various circumstances. This article will provide you with all the information you need to know about flip video camera data recovery.

Note:Please stop using your flip camera after losing data to increase the chance of recovery.

What Are The Reasons Behind Video File Deletion From Flip Camera?

  • Accidentally Deletion:Sometimes while deleting unwanted videos they accidentally select some important videos and delete them without verifying.
  • Formatting: Sometimes as soon as the user connects their flip video camera to their PC, it doesn’t get detected and asked to format it. In such a situation, generally, the users format the camera and lose all the video clips stored in it.
  • Improper Removal: Forceful ejection of a flip video camera during the video/media transfer between the camera and the computer result in video file deletion.
  • Cut and Paste command:Using cut and paste commonly for moving video files from a flip camera to the system drive sometimes proves to be risky.
  • Flip Camera Card corruption: Impact of viruses, damages to the card file system, card errors, and other conflicts also lead to deletion or loss of the Flip camera videos.

How To Recover Deleted Files From Flip Video Camera?

Method 1: Best Way To Recover Deleted Video Files From Flip Camera Using Yodot Photo Recovery

With the help of the Yodot Photo Recovery tool, you can recover deleted Flip camera videos regardless of any deleted/lost scenario. The software also supports the recovery of lost pictures, videos, music files, and other documents from all storage media. Download Yodot Photo Recovery tool and start flip video camera data recovery in no time.

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Steps to Recover Deleted Files from Flip Video Camera:

  • Download the Yodot Photo Recovery application and install it on your computer.
  • On the main screen, select the “Deleted Photo Recovery” option to recover deleted files from the Flip video camera.

  • Choose Flip video camera drive and click on the “Next” option.

  • The recovery tool starts scanning the selected drive and displays all retrieved files in two types of view i.e. “Data View” and “File Type View”.

  • Preview recovered files from Flip video camera using the “Preview” option and save the rescued files to your preferred location on the computer.

Method 2: Recover Deleted Video Files From Flip Camera Using Command Prompt

  1. Open the command prompt by typing cmd in the Windows search box and select Run As Administrator.
  2. Now, ‘chkdsk X /f’ and hit Enter (replace X with the drive letter)
  3. Next type ‘Y’ to confirm the command and press Enter
  4. Type in ‘X:\>attrib –h –r –s /s /d *.*’ and press Enter

Tips to Protect Your Flip Camera Videos:

  • Don’t connect your Flip video camera to a virus or malware infected system
  • Keep an additional copy of your important image or video files in some other reliable storage device
  • Avoid abruptly unplugging the Flip video camera when it is connected to a computer

Other Popular Software

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