Another SD Card issue - lost photo retrieval

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Hello again everyone.
I'm back looking for more advice on photo recovery - if that's what I need!

I spent Friday and Saturday in Burgers' Zoo and Artis Zoo in the Netherlands and took some decent photos with my Canon 750D. I'd never had any SD card issues with this camera or the brand of card I use. I noticed that on reviewing photos, I could only playback the five most recent images. Stupidly, I thought nothing of this. The next day I realised that my SD card still had capacity for over 5000 photos - as if it was empty. I therefore changed camera cards immediately and had no further issues. Unfortunately there are very few photos on the card, from the start of my trip. Recuva and Yodot programmes have only yielded 3 more photos. I expect there are a few thousand missing shots - please can anyone advise on how I might be able to get them back? Does anyone have any similar experiences?

Thanks!
 
It may be that the camera was not correctly recognising a card was inserted (though odd it gave you a capacity reading) and thus not writing to the card.
Do you have the option to "take pictures without a card" enabled? if so, it may not have even tried writing to the card.
 
boolean said:
I've had success with diskdigger where recuva etc haven't worked http://diskdigger.org/
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Thanks - I've just downloaded it and will give it a go.

LC2 said:
It may be that the camera was not correctly recognising a card was inserted (though odd it gave you a capacity reading) and thus not writing to the card.
Do you have the option to "take pictures without a card" enabled? if so, it may not have even tried writing to the card.
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No, I don't have the option enabled. It wrote the first hundred or so photos to the card without any issue but no problem since.
The SDXC card manufacturer (Komputerbay) have suggested this only really happens when a card is used with an incompatible (i.e. SD or SDHC-only) device.
 
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Where did you buy the card from as there are a lot of fake cards around.
Or maybe the contacts on the card or in the camera are dirty causing intermittant problems.
 
Thanks for the offer Al1944 - I was waiting to see what Diskdigger yielded first. Unfortunately nothing new. I'm suspicious that the remaining photos were not even written to the card.

I bought the card from Amazon.co.uk. I've previously used 15 of them and had no issues.
 
devilfish said:
I bought the card from Amazon.co.uk. I've previously used 15 of them and had no issues.
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Actually from Amazon or from an "Amazon Merchant"?
Amazon are generally reliable, but some "Merchants" have been known to supply "dodgy" products.
If it's a branded card (Sandisk, Lexar, Kingston etc) it will have a serial number and the manufacturer should be able to verify it.
 
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