I have this crappy cheap 38 dollar camera from Amazon that sometimes acts weird as heck and glitches, but I have also had problems with the cheap crappy SD card that came with it that no longer works anymore because it got locked from gOing tHrough tOo MaNy pROcesSeS I think or something like that. I think it was a bootleg SD card or something. Getting to the point, I recently got a new SD card, a month ago on like May 11 or 12 (but it’s micro and it’s actually from a real and trusted brand called SanDisk unlike whatever on earth Elite Pro is)
But I noticed that none of the videos have been showing on my computer when I plug it in with the adapter (You also have to put the card in with the adapter for the camera so I doubt it’s a problem with it) ever since 1 video that was recorded on May 26 of a true bug in the genus Acanthocephala
I also have hidden files enabled in the view thing in Windows Explorer (on Windows 10 in case that matters) and I keep searching the entire micro SD card for any other mp4 files that might somehow be hidden in some random weird folder(All of them are mp4) and I can’t find anything anywhere, it’s all just 41 videos that were before May 26. This kind of scares me since I had something happen to that old crappy bootleg SD card not that long ago and then this somehow happens. For now, until I can find a fix, I can only upload videos from that old SD card and the 41 videos before May 26 onto my YouTube channel and not any new ones. Please help.
I think you’ll be better off taking the card and your computer to a shop that does computer repairs than asking here (Geek Squad at Best Buy if you don’t have anything better locally). It’s hard to know anything for sure without experimenting a little.
Are you able to view the videos directly on your camera when the card is inserted? If so, the files are intact, so I would guess either your adapter is faulty, or perhaps you accidentally changed a setting in your camera. Perhaps it’s saving as a RAW file or something other than an mp4? If not, I’d guess maybe the microSD card is bad. The cheap cards especially don’t last very long.
read the SD card from a discrete SD drive, not from the camera connected to your computer. a 64GB card has a different structure than a 256GB card. so make sure your SD drive will handle a 256GB card.
The micro sd card is not a crappy cheap one it’s actually by SanDisk and not a cheap one with a random brand that you cannot even easily find on the internet called “ElitePro” that’s the old SD card that was not micro. I was just saying that I also had some problems with something just in case. I can view the videos on my camera when the card is inserted but it doesn’t show up on my computer for some reason. Maybe I should insert it into my tablet.
The camera is not connected to my computer at all when I view the videos on my camera or on my computer. I can view them on my camera while literally being outside and with no connection to anything. I view the photos and videos on my computer when I get out the micro sd card inside of the adapter out of my camera and then plug the adapter into my computer.
It’s a micro SD card though in an adapter
I put the micro sd card into my tablet but it showed no videos so I got it out and then put it back into my computer and then it showed some weird corrupted looking files and I put them into my camera and my camera registers them as a “video file” and they’re also in the video folder when I view them on my computer. They all have creepy fake dates from more than a decade ago or from decades that haven’t even happpened yet. And they’re named a bunch of random special characters, even letters from random foreign languages, I found a German ß on one of them and it says it’s from 12/2/2076. There are 300+ of them but I haven’t recorded that many videos on this new micro sd card yet, I don’t record videos as much as I take photos and it took me months on that old bootleg Elitepro sd card to get that many videos. I think they might be corrupted short clips from different videos or a bunch of duplicates. It also showed up with 4 new MP4 videos which is not even all of them and they’re all videos from after June 9. And I took a few videos on June 7 and I took 2 videos of some Domestic Chickens in a chicken coop but none of those even show up. But in the thumb folder where there are .bmp files of the thumbnails that show up on my camera before you play the video, it shows 2 thumbnails from June 7 but I took more than 2 videos. It also shows with a few more thumbnails of videos that don’t even show up.
Also some of the photos I took got corrupted and turned into some weird looking thing that looks like nothing and my camera keeps restarting everytime I try to view the corrupted videos. But the videos that are fine and show on my computer still show up. I think I have most of the videos to be lost media now. But it shows up with new videos that I take on my computer now.
This is the reason I’m only using 64 GB cards with my camera (Canon PowerShot, not sure camera model matters). I found out the hard way that larger cards or filling the card to the max seem to cause file transfer errors for me and I’ve had to delete older files from the card in camera before I could transfer the newer ones to the computer. Frequent transferring of files and reformatting the card seems to help. Not sure if there’s any trick to recover the corrupted files.
Why are there all those unrelated folders on your SD card? Could that be part of the problem? I think it might work better to have an SD card dedicated for just the camera and format it in camera (if your camera has that option).
You might want to consider using a recovery program to see if that can read the files. There’s a free utility called R-Photo that might help. I haven’t used it myself, but I found numerous people on various forums saying it worked for them, so it might be worth a try.
i don’t think R-Photo is going to fix a corrupted file. to do that, i think you’d need a program like untrunc.
you could write-protect the card and then run a program to check to see if it’s corrupted. if the camera can play the videos, though, i would suspect the issue isn’t corruption. it might be that the card is formatted in an unexpected way or something like that. if the computer is very old, try a different (newer) computer and/or a (recent) discrete SD card reader.
That came up only when I put them onto my tablet and then I deleted them they weren’t there before my tablet does that for some reason
The camera cannot play those files that are named a bunch of random special characters and sometimes numbers or letters from the normal latin/roman alphabet but mostly named special characters. They are corrupted I think. I only got my computer 5 years ago in 2020 so it isn’t that old.
Yeah, I’d say it looks you’ve got some file corruption. That would mean either a bad card or the camera isn’t writing the files properly. Take it to a computer repair shop and they may be able to help you recover the files. I’d get a new memory card, though. If the problem persists with a different card, then it’s the camera.
What data recovery tools have you tried for this card?
Most offer a free ‘sample’ run to see how well they perform.
For instance, Disk Drill offers a free 500Mb of recovery in their trial package.
Also, for future reference – micro SD’s in regular size SD adapters are a recipe for trouble. Especially with cameras. There’s too many ways for things to mess up. For the price of an SD card today – you’re far better off sticking to a full size, in the long run.
ok. first, set write protection on using the little tab on side on the side your SD card adapter, if you haven’t already. then i would run a program like chkdsk to see if the disk itself has issues.
if not, you can try using something like untrunc to try to fix the individual files, although since they show as 0KB, i suspect it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to get anything this way. (it almost looks like the camera just started to write but never actually did. i’m not sure if that would mean the camera is broken or isn’t designed to write to SDXC cards.)
if there is a problem in the card itself (according to chkdsk), then you could try to save an image of the disk. then set write protection off, and then you can use chkdsk to try to fix any corruption. sometimes that can fix issues, but not always.
it’s possible, but i’ve never had specific issues that i could trace to an adapter. where i’ve run into a problem is removing cards while something is still actively using it. there are also cases where a card slows down enough that, especially when writing videos, the card won’t be able to keep up and you end up with a corrupted file. that can usually be resolved by occasionally moving all the files off the card and doing a full format (not just a “quick” format) of the card, though you don’t want to wear out SD cards by doing full format too often. (for my own 256GB cards, i usually move everything to a backup hard drive after a given card has roughly 32GB remaining. after archiving the data, i’ll usually do just a quick format, but i usually find that on the third such cycle, the card will start showing increasing signs of slow writing during video recording, and that’s when i do a full format.)
I said “read” not “fix”. It’s possible that it’s just the file-system metadata that cannot be read properly (by some applications), whilst the files themselves (i.e. their contents) aren’t corrupted at all. Of course, if the files really are zero bytes, there’s no point trying to recover or fix them. Some specialised tools (such as R-Photo, or whatever) can still access files on file-systems with certain metadata issues. This scenario would be one of simplest ways of recovering the original data in its entirety, so it’s worth giving it a shot.
With video there are certain protocols which determine what software can view them. Have you tried viewing JPG files? If they’re OK it could be a video format issue, which can be resolved with an editing app.