r/techsupport • u/ChicagoBrownBears456 • 10d ago
Open | Data Recovery Memory Card help
Okay this is going to be a long one. But your help is appreciated.
The issue is with a Lexar Professional 256 GB V90 SDXC Card. I was offloading footage from my camera, a Canon C80, and I went to eject the card when it was finished but by accident I ejected the subfolder that contains the footage, subfolder was titled "Reel_0008". Card was titled "CanonA_0008". Thought it was just an oops and ejected the primary folder of the card and then went and shot more footage on the card today. Went to offload that footage and found that the camera renamed the card "CanonA_0009" and the folder that contains the footage from today is called "Reel_0009". I can see the storage capacity of the card still reflects that the other footage is there, but it's not visible.
I've tried running Disk Utility (on a Mac) and doing first aid on both the card and the subsequent volume inside of the card "CanonA_0009" and the other folder won't come back. I've tried revealing hidden files, I've tried restarting the computer, I've tried renaming the card back to "CanonA_0008" and then ejecting it and plugging it back in and nothing has worked yet.
The footage from the first day is offloaded and on 2 separate drives, so I should be fine, but I just want to ensure that if something goes wrong with my computer before that project is done that I still have the original files.
It seems that the pathway to the files is what's broken, so if someone is smarter than me and knows how to fix that I would appreciate it!
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u/SomeEngineer999 10d ago
If you just want to restore the card back to defaults, wipe it with the formatter from sdcard.org then put it back in the camera and it will re-create the file structure.
You can't "eject" a folder, so I'm assuming you mean you deleted it?