I took a lot of photos today. The pictures on the camera card could not be recognized.

[rzemanfl]

All the hundreds of photos I took before today were fine. My camera works with other cards. The problem was only with the pictures I took today on that one card. Everything else worked fine. Even my camera did not recognize the pictures I took today when I tried to play them back. I downloaded all the files from the camera card to a hard drive and deleted them from the card. I ran chkdsk on the card and the result was no problems.

I would appreciate any thoughts on what I should do or similar experiences. I have got to sleep now.

[Liberty Belle]

1. Happened to me once. A good camera store was able to find most of them and restore them for me

off the card that had stored them in a hidden file I coud not view.

[rzemanfl]

2. Hmm. These were just nature shots, turtles, egrets, ospreys in a nest.

General beautiful day in a park in Florida stuff. Not worth trying to recover. I am just worried about future problems. I will replace the card. Thanks for your response.

[applegrove]

5. Speaking of nature shots, I once took a digital shot of a deer in the woods

and against a leafy forest floor. I could clearly see the deer but the digital camera did not register it. I could see it from the viewfinder. But once I pressed click it was gone. Freaky.

[defacto7]

3. It was probably thrown in the partition's lost&found file

When data is misplaced by a drive and can't be accessed it goes into a file to protect it with the highest admin privileges. You can access it yourself but you need to put it in a computer and run a small operating system that you can use to recover the data. All Linux os's can do this. I'm sure mac's can as well since they are a Unix system.

The only reason I explained this is so you're aware that there's a reason the data was lost in the first place. It could be the card, the camera or the formatting that messed it up.

[rzemanfl]

7. Thanks. I am going to buy a new card today and cross my fingers it isn't

my camera that's the problem.

[canetoad]

4. Have a look at this program

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

I think you will need to stick your wiped SD card into a card reader, rather than recover the files on your HD. Maybe not.

The download link is a little down the page, beneath 'Operating Systems'. Best of luck -Years ago, I used a much earlier version to recover some pix from a drive that had been formatted a couple of times and it worked!

On edit: Gotta add this - if/when you get your photos back, format the card but NOT in your computer. Do it in the camera.

Again on edit: You might find something on this page. http://www.photo-freeware.net/categories/tools/

[rzemanfl]

6. Thank you. n/t