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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 ther...

Process of recovering my data from corrupted Sandisk SD card

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Hi all, in this post I would be going through the steps/apps I used to gain back some of my data in my corrupted SD card without spending any money.  Disclaimer : I didn't managed to recover all the data that was in it but managed to get back most of the important ones eg photos, songs. The photos here were taken after I already recovered the data so It might not be what you will see when you are using the software.  Background : I bought this 64 GB SD card online, and used it as additional storage for my phone to store videos, songs, photos and documents. I had about 32 GB worth of data in it. I didn't go to a computer fixing place as Singapore is in circuit breaker mode(many non-essential places are closed) and I am a cheapskate (was afraid it was going to be expensive). Identifying a corrupted SD card So first, identifying that my SD card was corrupted. The moment it hit me was when after inserting the SD card into 3 devices( phone, tablet, computer),  they all had not...