How To Recover Pictures Disappeared From SD Card?

Updated on March 2, 2022

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It is hard to digest when crucial photos from an SD card disappear all of a sudden. There are multiple reasons why your SD card shows an empty folder. But it doesn’t mean that your disappearing pictures captured on Nikon/Canon camera or mobile phone are lost forever.

In this article, find out how you can recover pictures that disappeared from SD card using proven methods. Also, learn common reasons for missing SD card images on a computer, camera, or android phone.

Why Did My Photos Disappear From My SD Card?

  • Memory card is corrupt or damaged
  • Unintentionally deleted photos from SD card (failing to notice)
  • SD card photos are hidden
  • Abrupt removal of SD card from a camera, Android phone, or laptop
  • Bad sectors or damaged file system
  • Taking photos when the camera battery is low or the SD card is full
  • Interruptions while transferring photos from camera memory card to another device
  • Virus infection to the card such as “System Volume Information” and “Shortcut virus”

Methods To Recover Photos disappeared from SD card?

1. Insert SD card Properly

SD card won’t show up files if it is not properly connected to your camera, phone, or computer. Therefore, properly reinserting the memory card into your respective device helps you access all your images saved on it.

2. Use Working Card Reader

Irrespective of your working SD card, if your card reader is faulty or damaged, then photos from SD card disappear. Make use of a working camera card reader and check if you are able to access all your disappeared photos from SD card or not. In case, if the problem still persists then move down to the next method.

3. Restart your device

Due to temp files, logs, or cache on your device, photos saved on the SD card might not be visible to read or write. Be it a camera, Android phone, or Windows computer, restarting or rebooting the device can get back your pictures disappeared from SD card.

4. Delete Nomedia files

A Nomedia file hides photos, raw images, videos, and other media files from an Android smartphone. If you find .nomedia files on File Manager of your Android phone, delete them to access your SD card photos on Gallery.

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5. Unhide disappeared Pictures

Sometimes, your SD card might show the size of the data saved in it without actually showing the files. This could happen if your SD card photos are hidden. Follow the below steps to unhide photos disappeared from the SD card.

  • Connect the camera SD card to Windows
  • Open Control Panel and select the File Explorer Options
  • Click on the View tab and check Show hidden files, folders & drives
  • Now, click OK. This will make all your disappeared photos from SD card visible

In various data loss scenarios, manually recovering pictures disappeared from SD card is not easy without the use of photo recovery software. At times, if you have accidentally deleted SD card files, lost photos due to SD card corruption or interruptions while transferring memory card files, use Remo Recover.

6. Use Remo Data Recovery software

Integrated with a dedicated photo recovery mode, Remo is one of the highly suggested data recovery tools for SD card. With the ability to detect more than 300 file formats, Remo is users first choice to recover deleted or missing pictures from SD card. This SD card recovery tool not only recovers missing raw photos or images (PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF) from SD card but also restores data from external HDD, SSD, USB, etc.

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Steps to Recover Pictures disappeared from SD card using Remo Recover

1. Install and launch the Remo Recover software on Windows or Mac and connect your SD card from which you want to recover photos that disappeared

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2. Select the Recover Photos option and select your SD card drive

3. Click the Scan option to start restoring disappeared pictures from SD card

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4. After completing the scan, the tool will display all your recovered data in the File Type and Data View. You can preview the recovered photos that are disappeared from SD card and click Save to restore them at your desired location.

save images restored after they disappeared from SD card

Remo Recover software’s compatibility:

  • Supported SD Card Brands- SanDisk, Transcend, Kingston, Sony, HP, Lexar, etc.
  • Supported Camera Brands- Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Hasselblad, Panasonic, Kodak, etc.
  • Supported Operating Systems- Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, etc., and macOS Big Sur, Catalina, High Sierra, Sierra, etc.

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