Please help – Transcend SD card shows up empty after expensive shoot

[Denis O’keefe]

Panic can set in pretty quickly, is it possible that the cards got mixed up? Have you copied each into the clip browser and checked every one?
A card that shows up with just a BPAV folder, no video clips, sounds like one that has been freshly formatted. You say that it looked like that early in your travails.
Restoring the card won’t delete all, if you confused restore and format you may be beyond redemption.
If you have not written anything to the card it may be recoverable with PhotoRescue or similar.

At the end of a long day of shooting when concentration is wavering I’ve scared the hell out of myself copying to a place I promptly forgot, mixing up cards, moving stuff around. I now have an SOP ( and almost all the time follow my rules).
First thing I always try to do is copy the card (I confess, using finder, not the browser) into a folder on my desktop. First thing – always. That is my first backup to the backups – after everything else is copied I dump it.

Second rule is “don’t shoot paid jobs on cheap cards”. It just isn’t worth the stomach ulcers.

Good luck, hope it turns out to be a bad dream.

[Bob Hayes]

I’ve just started shooting with my EX1. I make sure every card has a large identifiable number on it and I always shoot in the order of the cards 1, 2, 3 etc.

[Ken Nicholson]

Another practice I’ve adopted gives a little extra assurance. When I return from a shoot, I copy the BPAV folders to my backup drive. I then copy those to the media RAID. I use the files on the RAID to import into FCP. That way, I know that the files on the backup drive are good without having to check. Only then do I erase the SDHC cards, but even then only when I need the cards for a shoot.

Transcend 16GB cards are the only ones I’ll use. I only buy them direct from Transcend.

Ken Nicholson

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Austen,
That sounds very strange to me.
I have recovered without problems deleted files and files from corrupted SDHC cards.
I’ve been able even to download partially overwrite clips.
SxS cards recovering is a different story.
If the files are so important you may try FileSalvage as well.
I agree with Craig that we must be careful when managing the media, but mistakes happens and we must be ready.
Cheers,
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Dano Motley]

austin,

if you have exhausted all recovery solutions…send me an email. i have some pretty good recovery software i have used in the past that might work.

dano

danno3655@comcast.net

[Tash Glenn]

I’m having a similar issue, I had footage on my Transcend SD card as i checked the footage in my camera before transferring…so i tried to transfer my footage from a card reader onto my hard drive. The transfer crashed and now the card will not open on my computer using a reader. I also put it back into my Panasonic HMC 150 camera and i get a “Check Card’ error message. Is my footage lost or can it still be recovered?

[Andrew Pyka]

I now have the same problem. Did you ever get a solution?

[Branda Garlic]

Hello There,
Once you have deleted the data from you card doesn’t mean that data is gone permanently. You can again get your formatted data back. You can do this by accomplishing the process of recovery. You can restore formatted transcend SDHC card by using recovery software. Actually the data which seems to be deleted is just an illusion and at the disk data is present. If you want to restore the formatted card’s data then just you need to download the software from this link. The software installation at your system will facilitate you with the recovery features.

Regards
Branda

[Michael Palmer]

This seems to be a Windows solution, is there a Mac solution?

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Michael Palmer]

Found it
https://www.recoversdcard.net/

Good Luck
Michael Palmer