Some ideas for sorting out data in SD cards

So, as mentioned in a previous post, I manged to recover some data from a corrupted SD card but all the names of the files, order of the songs, organisation of photos were destroyed so I am starting from scratch.

Photos

I separated them into different categories and had different folder for different categories such as Friends (Primary school, Secondary school etc), Personal, Recommendation (Books, Services, Recipes), Hacks, Memes, Games, Name cards, Nice wallpapers, Fashion.

I viewed the unsorted photos in the large thumbnails form so that I can easily see what I did not want to keep and delete them. I then cut and paste the photos to the various folders.

 

Songs

I viewed them by list. My song titles were messed up so I had to listen and manually typed out the song titles. By displaying the songs through the list view, you might see the song information at the side. Some songs have meta data in them so when you open them using a music app, their title would already be there so those were the easy ones to label. For those I couldn't name, I titled them as dk1, dk2 etc so I could Shazam (a mobile app for finding songs) them at one go. Songs with duration lesser than 2 mins were deleted immediately as none of my songs were that short. 

You can also sort them by the type of files they are. For files that are very small (1kb, 4kb), I would just delete them without opening as they are probably not useful. 

Videos 

Videos are the easiest to sort as I didn't have much of them. Open the video file and skip to the middle of it to see if it can load. If it doesn't load, just note it down (so that you can download again) and delete it. I tried many ways to restore those damaged video files for free (googling, different video converters, VSC converter) but none worked so I just gave up on recovering them. 

Books

Most of the documents recovered were in the form of sxw which I couldn't open (not sure how that happened as these files were originally in word docs or txt form). I tried many online converters and even downloaded Open Office and used Microsoft Word to repair the files but they didn't work. I found a website https://convertio.co/ that did managed to convert the sxw file to doc but they only let me convert 10 files before cutting me off  and asking me to upgrade to their paid version. It was like $10 for the cheapest plan but I didn't want to waste money on these and I can always find new books to read so I gave up on recovering. 

However, for books that were in compressed files like ZIP folders, they were not affected and I could still view them. For Chinese novels, when I first viewed them, the characters were not recognizable( eg gibberish). I thought it was probably a formatting problem. I googled and this solution worked for me : Go to Settings, then Language, then press on Administrative Language Settings. Change the option of reading non unicode supported apps to Chinese(simplified).

I downloaded Calibre which I haven't used enough of to fully understand its function. From what I saw online, it is an app that organises eBook libraries. It seems to be quite highly recommended. 

Conclusion

This is how I organised the data recovered from my SD card. Hope it helps!