Quote from: Dantheman on January 04, 2013, 17:51

Quote from: elvinstar on January 04, 2013, 16:57

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Why would using a card reader be better than connecting directly to the pc? The reader in the pc is exactly the same as an external card reader?

I think they meant connecting the camera to the PC to transfer files.

  ok that makes sense. But i really hardly know anyone who still does this!

I transfer images from the card to the PC & the cloud such as one drive & google drive but when my SD card was full & had to reformat it, it turned out that some of my photos were not backed up that I needed so I was able to DL some for free from my Depositphotos port. I DL'd some photos I have on 500px & even Gurushots by sharing them on pinterest & downloading them that way with no watermarks. although they didn't always save to the original 16MP photo size

Some free tools will recovery your images. Some are free to scan and don't recover until you pay, which is a waste of time. Recova is old and free. I have iTop recovery tools on my desktop. Even after format if you haven't used the card, many time, most of your files will still be there. Full size as original. Sandisk cards used to come with free recovery software. Just buy a card and the code for a year of use, is included.

But do it now and don't use the card. I mean, even a formatted card, will still have many images, unless you did deep level formatting instead of the fast.

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Quote from: Dantheman on January 04, 2013, 17:51

Quote from: elvinstar on January 04, 2013, 16:57

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Why would using a card reader be better than connecting directly to the pc? The reader in the pc is exactly the same as an external card reader?

I think they meant connecting the camera to the PC to transfer files.

  ok that makes sense. But i really hardly know anyone who still does this!

I transfer images from the card to the PC & the cloud such as one drive & google drive but when my SD card was full & had to reformat it, it turned out that some of my photos were not backed up that I needed so I was able to DL some for free from my Depositphotos port. I DL'd some photos I have on 500px & even Gurushots by sharing them on pinterest & downloading them that way with no watermarks. although they didn't always save to the original 16MP photo size

Some free tools will recovery your images. Some are free to scan and don't recover until you pay, which is a waste of time. Recova is old and free. I have iTop recovery tools on my desktop. Even after format if you haven't used the card, many time, most of your files will still be there. Full size as original. Sandisk cards used to come with free recovery software. Just buy a card and the code for a year of use, is included.

But do it now and don't use the card. I mean, even a formatted card, will still have many images, unless you did deep level formatting instead of the fast.

Thank you, I used Recova & was able to recover lost photos including of my cat who sadly died a few months back

Wow, good news. It's such an outside and distant possibility, because there are so many ways, the images could have been gone forever. NICE! 

I just had a TF card go bad. Nothing on it that I know of, but I never had that happen before. It was something wrong when I put two cards in the reader, by accident, a TF and a SD. I didn't notice the TF was stuck in there. It doesn't read or open on anything. I tried different readers and, just dead, nothing. Finally I decided I had wasted enough time, and flipped it into the waste basket.