the digital world of photos.
In today's digital world, people continuously take photos and videos to save the moments they experience. It's like a life in review, sharing and preserving the best memories of every life's moment in the form of a digital diary. Therefore, losing a unique copy of photos and videos can be devastating and heartbreaking. Imagine losing your wedding pictures and videos, photos and videos of your children, or a vacation trip. Losing digital photos and videos can have a big personal impact.
For professional photographers, there is also an economic impact when photos and videos are lost or accidentally deleted. If, for example, a wedding photographer loses photos and videos from a couple’s big day, or an industrial photographer loses photos taken in industrial settings for catalogs and newsletters, or artistic images for galleries or shows, this can ruin their reputation and cause a decline in their business.
sd card.
Inside your smartphone, digital camera or other mobile devices, are usually SD cards. SD, or secure digital cards, are a small form of flash memory that has become popular with the rise of digital cameras and smartphones.
These tiny cards can hold a large amount of data. As you use your phone or camera, your SD card will fill up with priceless pictures and videos. But unfortunately, SD cards are very fragile storage devices, and vulnerable to physical damage. Therefore, they have to be treated with care and stored away from extreme heat or sunlight.
When you are taking photos and videos outside, keep your camera or phone safe from water and humidity and make sure to avoid drops and hits. Unfortunately, like any other storage media, SD cards can fail and all data can become inaccessible.
Your photos and videos will be safer if you invest in a decent quality memory card, rather than simply buying the cheapest one you can find. It is also recommended you buy multiple smaller capacity SD cards rather than a single large one. If anything goes wrong with one, fewer photos will be lost.
keep your sd card healthy.
SD cards are the sources of storing many videos and photos in digital cameras and mobile phones. They come with many advantages - for instance, they can be used in multiple devices, carry vast amounts of data, and make data transfers easy. However, you must be aware that any fault in the SD card could cause losing your precious data.
Take these basic precautions to avoid a memory card's malfunction and consequent data loss:
format the new SD card in your camera
It is advisable to format the memory card immediately after buying it. New SD cards are already formatted and ready to use, but reformatting will prepare the card according to the device’s hardware and avoid any harm.
eject the SD card safely
Make sure to eject your memory card safely and with the proper procedure. One of most common ways to damage the SD card is either turning off the camera before ejecting the card or improperly removing it once attached to the computer. These careless actions can be damaging to the SD card and to the data.
keep the SD card safe from environmental factors
Handle your card carefully and keep it in a case to prevent it from breaking, protect it from any moisture exposure or extreme temperatures or sunlight.
compatibility concerns
Always check on specifications of what your device will or won’t accept. For the SD card to work optimally and for a long time, make sure not to share your card with multiple devices and users. If sharing is essential, don't forget to store your data somewhere else first and reformat your card before using it.
lost photos can be recovered.
There are many ways you could lose your photos from an SD card. You could:
- accidentally format your SD card
- delete it by mistake
- the SD card gets corrupted
- there is a virus attack
- the SD card is physically damaged
In most cases, lost images on corrupt, deleted or damaged SD cards can be recovered.
If you, for example, accidentally press delete, the good news is that you don't lose your files permanently even after being deleted from the SD card. Your files remain as long as you don't take any action to read or overwrite the SD card. Data recovery critically depends on the actions you take just after realizing that you have lost valuable data. It is important to know that recovering photos from an SD card requires you to avoid overwriting them.
It is also important to know that data recovery from a physically damaged SD card is possible, but should only be attempted by a professional data recovery company.
Whether you’re an individual who’s just lost family photos and videos, or a professional photographer whose livelihood depends on getting the photos and videos you’ve lost back, the best way to increase your chance of recovering data precious to you is to stop using your SD card immediately once the data is lost.
where to store photos.
1. save to recordable media
SD memory cards are not suitable for long-term archival storage because the charge decays over long periods of time.
2. backup to your computer
Computers are a good backup option because they provide fast and easy access to your photos. However, a hard drive in your computer can fail at any time. To safely store your data, you should use at least two different storage medias, a desktop PC and an external USB hard drive that backs up the PC.
3. back-up to an external drive
External drives are convenient for storing photos because they can perform two important functions:
a) traveling drives allow photographers to keep digital images safe while on the move
b) back-up drives are part of the second stage, where digital images are backed up to a second device, or the cloud
4. cloud storage
Some of the more popular cloud storage options include Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.
Cloud photo services like Picturelife, Adobe Creative Cloud, and ThisLife make it easy to back up photos from iOS or Android devices as well as Macs or PCs, providing an additional layer of security, along with the tools necessary to organize and edit photos from anywhere, no matter what device or web browser you happen to be on at the time.
The general rule of a good backup is to have 3 different storage types, one of which should be off-site.
Make sure that you don't delete the photos and videos on your SD card until you are certain that they have been copied over to another storage device. After that, you need to back them up regularly either to a physical storage device like an external hard drive or RAID system, or in the cloud - or both if you want to be extra cautious. For professional photographers, it is worth keeping an additional backup off-site to protect their photos in the event of a fire or flood.
If you experienced SD card failure, lost your valuable photos and videos, and you don’t have a backup, contact a data recovery specialist right away.
Kotar Data Recovery experts have the technology and the expertise needed to access and successfully recover your data from any memory card and any data loss situation.
