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How to recover



         deleted photos





         from an SD card




         By Jasmine D’Katz                                      For Window users, recover you files with Recuva as long
         Now days, many of you enjoy taking photos with your    as they are not overwritten.  Recuva will present you
         phone, but there are still many of us out here who prefer   with a list of files found on your data card and then in­
         a real camera to take photos. But there is nothing more   form you of the deleted files. I even detected file I’d tak­
         soul crushing than losing that amazing photo of video   en a few years ago. Recuva will recover all deleted file
         you took on vacations. Those SD card that we use in our   unless they have been partially overwritten.
         cameras can  sometime be fussy and those photos be­    I you don’t find everything the first time, try re-running
         come corrupted of accidently deleted.                  Recuva and doing a Deep Scan. It’ll take longer but you

         But there’s hope for the SD card!                      might get lucky.

         You may have heard that when you delete files from an   Whether you’re able to recover your photo or not, re­
         SD card (or hard drive or flash drive) that data isn’t   member  that the story  doesn't end here—you'll also
         erased right away– instead you computer just marks that   want to de everything in you power from preventing this
         space as available for re-writing. That means that those   in the future. Copy our photo to you C early and often,
         files are still there until your camera or computer over­  properly eject you SD card before removing it from your
         writes them with something else. Therefore if you have­  PD and have a good backup strategy in place, so those
         n’t taken too may new photo on that SD card, you might   photos never disappear.
         be able to got those old ones back.

         STOP! Don't take any more photos on that card—remove
         it from your camera and set it aside (hopefully you have
         another SD card to continue you journey). If you keep
         snappy away, you might overwrite that photo you lost
         and then you really won’t get it back.
         Data Recovery Software

         Over the years, I’ve purchased several SanDisk SD card
         and was able to purchase data recovery software recom­
         mended by SanDisk, but there are other software prod­
         ucts available

         RecoverIt promotes recovering lost data in 3 steps and
         has a high success rate. There’s a FREE trail version, but
         you may need to spend  little money if things get tough.

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