Last night, I wanted to transfer photos of 9 years ago from this SD card … I had it in storage in a container in cool dry dark area.
I only used it the once.
And it was freezing my deck top computer, and wouldn’t allow me to transfer much and then many of photos were partly covered over … so I was worried I hadn’t transferred these photos earlier…I then got out the external hard drive and luckily I found I had transferred the photos! Whew!

I pulled the sd card apart to look at how it’s made. Can you believe just this little metallic strip is what stores photos taken!

I’ve still got a canon slr film camera. I might go back to that!  ;D
At least not as many corrupt as digital file.

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If you use Windows you can try chkdsk E: /f (replace 'E' with your SD card letter) in Command Prompt, have to login as administrator.

Always back your files up in multiple ways:

more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well.

Aim to have 3 copies of every photo.

Speaking of SD cards ...

I once accidentally deleted photos from an SD card and my paid for software from Nero to try to "undelete" them was a total failure.  :(

However, the free software from CCleaner called Recuva worked perfectly!  8-)

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am:

***Always back your files up in multiple ways: more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well. Aim to have 3 copies of every photo.

Good advice bobby.   !



***Any information.....that you do not want to ever lose !

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am:

Always back your files up in multiple ways: more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well. Aim to have 3 copies of every photo.

For my phone photos I now have iCloud because 3 times the different phones, including one still under iPhone warranty became unusable and photos lost.
Many I already downloaded onto computer or external hard drive, and some I recovered that I sent to family … but quite a few are missing.
I can’t trust phones.

I’m wondering, I have one iPhone that just overheated and stopped working.
It’s sitting near my desk with a wishing hope photos can be recovered somehow …

Sophia wrote on Apr 30^th, 2026 at 3:57pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29th, 2026 at 10:30am: Always back your files up in multiple ways: more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well. Aim to have 3 copies of every photo. For my phone photos I now have iCloud because 3 times the different phones, including one still under iPhone warranty became unusable and photos lost. Many I already downloaded onto computer or external hard drive, and some I recovered that I sent to family … but quite a few are missing. I can’t trust phones. I’m wondering, I have one iPhone that just overheated and stopped working. It’s sitting near my desk with a wishing hope photos can be recovered somehow …

I have my:
(1) main  desktop SSD drive,
(2) an extra hard disk drive in the same desktop,
(3) an external USB drive that I also use as a backup,
(4) an old desktop computer  with all my old photos too
     and that has 2 hard drives - one as a backup.
(5) an old laptop with many photos too.
     So some older photos are backed up 6 times!

Therefore:
recent photos and videos at least 3 times plus
the files on my mobile now and my old mobile.

A good story from over 15 years ago at work.

An engineer worked on a technical detail for a product for over 3 months.
It was about 115 pages long - all on the company's laptop-
pictures, diagrams made with CAD - detailed writings -
he never backed it up on the server or any USB stick even though he had a company USB stick.

One day the laptop wouldn't switch on - ohh dear.
The MD was really pissed off as it looked like 3 months of work was wasted.
We sent the laptop out to a hard disk recovery service.
He was lucky - the hard disk was OK -
the fault was on the motherboard.
They removed the hard disk -
put it in another laptop and they were able to read it.
They copied all the files onto a USB hard disk drive so he got every file back.
That company only charged $350.

Always back up your work in 2 different ways.

One thing I like making with photos taken is a printed photo book.
Do it online.
I’ve made photo books as presents for many friends and family.
Since I take a lot of photos more than most, why not.
They say, a photo isn’t a photo until it’s printed.
One programme you can look at downloading is photobook Australia.

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am:

Always back your files up in multiple ways: more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well. Aim to have 3 copies of every photo.

Future generations will be able to see your coarse ground Angus burger rissole with: Dijon mustard,
onions and red capsicum.

greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 30^th, 2026 at 8:32pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29th, 2026 at 10:30am: Always back your files up in multiple ways: more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well. Aim to have 3 copies of every photo. Future generations will be able to see your coarse ground Angus burger rissole with: Dijon mustard, onions and red capsicum.

And how lucky will they be to see what proper food used to look like?   :)

Sophia wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 9:14am:

Last night, I wanted to transfer photos of 9 years ago from this SD card … I had it in storage in a container in cool dry dark area. I only used it the once.

There's the prob SSDs are solar powered.  :P