Photo recovery from CF Express card

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Been browsing through my Scan disk extreme pro card and started to save photos and deleting others a few at a time. After moving about 20 photos to a new folder on my pc, went to look at the others to find every single one.....about 400 plus had been wiped. I didnt delete any folders just individual photos in some folders.

What happened and is there a reliable recovery tool available please?
 
There have been various similar posts and SanDisk usually include a license code for their own recovery software with every memory card sold.

However, IIRC yours is not the first time I have read of data losses during smaller copy & paste operations and individual deletions.

Frankly, I have never done that.......my practice is to copy everything from my cards to folder(s) on my PC and do the culling on the PC and I never (I did once in 2024...... don't ask) format or wipe the cards until I know I have at least two copies made of the transferred files.

In other words, as much as one can can, remove potential sources of problems.

Fingers crossed that you can recovery the AWOL files.......and hope & surmise that you have put that card away safely until you try to recover the files.
 
I normally do down load them all but just wanted to check a few specific photos.

Hard lesson learnt. Will have a look round for Scan disk recovery. None of the pics were that important as I am still getting used to my new camera so most were just trial shots.
 
Recuva it's free and has worked nearly every time for me, including some very old memory cards from when I got my first digital camera.
 
As far as I understand it has always been recommended with memory cards of different types not to delete individual photos from the card on the camera but as recommended on this thread copy them onto a computer and sort them there
Not sure how but apparently the card can become corrupted
When I get home I put a new card in the camera and don’t format the old one until I get time to back it up
 
If you would like something that doesn't require you to read/agree to nasty EULA (1), more transparent, but a bit more manual; in libre software world, there is also a well-known PhotoRec:

www.cgsecurity.org

Digital Picture and File Recovery

PhotoRec is a free and open source file carver data recovery software tool.
www.cgsecurity.org www.cgsecurity.org

It has text mode interface though; so... use the force, Luke.


(1) GNU GPL copyright license that PhotoRec is released under, has section 5 which says you can skip reading the thing (with no consequence) as long as you're only installing/using it yourself and not handing out copies; which is really nice.
 
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