The offshoot of this file corruption is the need to recover deleted photos from SD card media. We note that a simple data recovery program for finding and saving of files on one’s internal computer hard drive will not suffice for this purpose as they generally are not designed to recognize the proprietary file types initially used by digital camera manufacturers. While almost any data recovery program can recognize familiar image file formats such as jpegs and jpgs, only programs specifically created for digital photography file recovery will recognize and recover proprietary image file formats as issued by top brand camera manufacturers.

What makes recovery of digital image files different and difficult is that very often we assume a successful transfer of our precious photographs only to discover later that many of our images were incomplete. That being the case, the process to recover digital photos requires us to go back to our digital camera’s memory card and search through that media for the original stored digital photographs. These will most likely be in the camera manufacturer’s proprietary format known as a RAW file. When you purchase a program for digital photo recovery, make sure that program will recognize and recover RAW files.