corrupted digital files

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  1. gandydanc

    gandydanc Member

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    I need a lot of help. I took movies of my daughters wedding and the chip I used corrupted. I am using a Canon sx20is digital slr with a 32gb sdhc chip bought from ebay.I have gotten a lot of pics off but the wedding movies before the wedding and during the wedding are lost. All the pics after the wedding were fine. I have had 2 different people try 5 different recovery programs with no luck. On the still pics I get the error message jpeg marker error and on the movies I get the error importer reported memory errors and importer reported a generic error. My software program is adobe elements 8 and adobe premiere elements 8. Is it possible to recover these pics and movies? This camera takes better movies than my camcorder and I have movies from this camera that are great. Thank you gandydanc
     
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    I've actually seen this happen before on the exact same type of canon camera. There are several types of recovery software out there. Just do a google search for them, as there's plenty of types. Often you can get a trial version to scan your SD memory card (attached to your computer) and then if it shows the pictures you have to purchase a license and it'll recover it. To my knowledge, there's no easy, free way. But $20-$40 may be a reasonable price to pay to recover your pictures
     

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