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  Recovery of video file that is a .dat file on the camera

  Posted by Eric Moga on June 9, 2019 at 2:14 am

  Hi everyone, filming with a EOSM6 and got a “memory card error” during a shot. The camera locked up hard, flipping the power switch wouldn’t turn it off so I pulled the battery and it wouldn’t come back on once re-inserted. I had to use a second battery to get it to power on, even though the initial batter wasn’t dead. Strange behavior for sure.

  So what I have on the memory card (that is totally functional according to a test in windows) is a 3~ish GB .dat file. It copies off the SD card to my windows machine flawlessly, but is clearly not usable in any way, even if I manually rename the file to .mp4 VLC and Sony Vegas can’t understand what it is. Is there any way to recover this file?

  I tried putting it back in the camera (which is acting fine now) to see if it’d try to rebuild the file, but it just blinks the green light for a while and gives me a “can’t playback this file” error.

  Anything else I can try? Thank you!

  Francois Pénzes replied 6 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Francois Pénzes

  July 16, 2019 at 4:19 pm

  Hi Eric

  Do a Google search with SD recovery. Looks like your file(s) on your card got corrupted.

  Cheers !

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