Damnit. I recorded a video and reformatted my SD card before transferring to my external harddrive...
I am trying different ways to recover these video files but haven't succeeded yet.
I never made this mistake before but today was different. I had to delete some older videos on my sd card to make room before recording. So when i recorded the new video, the camera named the file the same name as the previously deleted files. When I transferred my data to the harddrive, I forgot that these clips would require me to scroll up and find them amongst my older files but I only copied the files displayed at the bottom of the directory. I assumed everything was done and formatted my sd card to have a clean slate again.
Silly me.
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I used testdisk before, seemed to work, should be available in Linux (search in your package manager) or Windows.
Also, ALWAYS copy files before deleting the originals.
Thanks. I tried it out yesterday and it failed to recover anything except an .xml file.
I formatted the card on my camera but the camera will automayically recreate the folders i believe. I read somewhere that if you format, you should not write anything to it. I never took any photos/videos since then but it still cant find anything...
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It can probably still be recovered, there are more methods, that would probably work.
However in your case, if its a video you made of yourself , its probably less time consuming to make a new one.
On the other hand, if it is important footage, make an image file and save the card until you have more time, or find someone else who can recover the data.
Yeah some places do it for a fee. I think its best to do as you said an record it again. It was a 10 minute video of me talking. Ill get around to it someday.
Thanks
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