Recovering deleted files on an SD card

Soooooooo here is a really free and working solution. In case something is wrong please contact me, so I can edit this post!

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Just unrar the Program to your desktop. It works on all OSs!!!

Without knowing the developer, I would not download anything and install it.

And, FYI, you cannot edit your post (except for a 15 minute window right after posting).

That App is just Junk. Already in it's description is stated, that it doesn't work!!!

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Description

Can't show your devices with our software, why?

Reason:
App Store doesn't accept new data recovery apps"

Sounds like someone violates the Apple Store Terms and Conditions here!

There is a good chance of recovery. Most SD cards will use DOS formatting. Files are deleted by marking the file as deleted and returning the file space to the delete pool. That mean the files are easily recovered if you stopped immediately writing to the card.

As a matter of fact, later releases of DOS had an undelete command.

R

Check google for some 3rd party applications. Good luck!

The ones I've used were for PC's, and I found them by googling 'undelete software'

I know there was an article that came up that recommended several programs, and at least a couple of them had mac versions.

Just avoid sourceforge as a download site if you can. They've often got adware bundled with their downloads.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/data-recovery-free/id509071310?mt=12

maybe? I've never used it...but you may want to poke around in the utilities section of the mac app store and see if anything looks good

Even if you find data recovery software, there is no guarantee that your files can be recovered. I do not know if such software works on external SD cards, so before - edit that: I just checked this one and it claims that it does:

https://www.prosofteng.com/datarescue4/

they have a free trial version and have been around for quite some time.

Great suggestions, but, hopefully, the OP found a solution two years ago. It's always good to check the thread's date. And, some of your links' URLs are not what they should be.

You should make a copy of the flash drive and work with the copy.

Use something like clonezilla to make the copy.

or the unix dd command.

R