Photos from SD card look fine but won’t open later
I copied around 60 photos from my camera SD card to my laptop. They showed previews fine at first, but now most won’t open. Just errors or black screens. A few still work. Card wasn’t formatted. Any chance these are recoverable or am I wasting time?
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Yeah, success depends on how much header data is damaged. Thumbnails working but full image broken is a classic sign.
I had the same thing after a transfer got interrupted. A photo repair tool fixed most of them, not all though
That makes sense. Recovery tools kept finding files but they stayed broken.
This usually isn’t recovery anymore, it’s repair. Recovery tools won’t help if files already exist but are corrupted.
Quick check: copy them to another drive first. Don’t work directly from the SD card again.
Tried Preview and Photos. Haven’t tried Lightroom yet.
Did you try opening them in something other than the default viewer? Lightroom or Photoshop sometimes reads partially broken files.
That’s what confused me. I literally saw them once. Now nothing opens.
If previews showed earlier, data might be there but file structure is messed up. Happens a lot with SD cards.
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Got it. I’ll try a repair tool and stop touching the card. Appreciate the clarity, this helped a lot.