Recent content by Stas_T

Recuva is a great free app. But I don't think there is much difference compared to other similar tools, since the underlying technology for recovering files is pretty the same. Regardless of the tool you use, I'd only suggest you to create a RAW image out of your SD card, so that you can use...

Well, for example, you can read what these guys have to say about this. Also, there are lots of support forums of various "undelete" tools where users claim they can't recover video files (mp4, mov, etc.). Unlike still images, video files are quite large and usually split into many fragments...

Correct. But if something unexpected happens (e.g. you've accidentally deleted a valid video from the SD card), it will be much easier to recover video when it is not fragmented. Otherwise, "undelete" tools may miss some chunks of the file scattered across the card.

Do a quick-format of your SD card before shooting important videos, so that there is enough free space to allocate for new files without fragmentation.