Retrieve deleted video from card

[piisfish 135]

A video was accidentally deleted from a GoPro card. Is it possible to retrieve it ?

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[Alexg3265 0]

http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download

Basically when you delete something, you don't actually delete it till you overwrite it. You take it out of the registry. Think pulling the card from the card catalog in the library. The book is still there, but the camera/computer acts like it isn't. There's a program that should get it back. It's free. I've used it with mixed results. If you've used the card since, you're probably fucked. If deleting it was the last thing you did, then your chances are good.

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[jumpsalot-2 2]

Thanks for that link and explanation.

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[jerry81 10]

Possibly, but I've also had mixed results. Pictures are usually not a problem. I've recovered video files before, but they were corrupted. I could actually fix a few of them with a gopro video fixer script of a sort (basically it checks and rewrites the file header), but if I remember correctly, sound was missing from all videos longer than a few seconds, and the 1minute+ files were either completely unrecoverable, full of artefacts, or randomly freezing up.

Have a go at the card with a recovery software, and best of luck to you! :)

[verticalflyer 11]

google RESCUEPro they have a very good solution, not free but very reliable used it for years and its very thorough.

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[piisfish 135]

thanks to all for your replies.
Don't know if the owner managed to retrieve the files. He is back in his country mending his forearm.

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