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Had a customer come into us that had a 5+ year old camera (still using the original memory card, hadn't been formatted since at least 2015 either) that needed to recover a file of an incident for legal purposes and the card had about 10% of files that were corrupt, of course as things normally go that included the file he needed
Said I'd see what we could do but really didn't expect to have any luck given the age of the card and lack of formatting for 5 years, tried some free solutions I could find and nothing worked, found some software that had a free trial so I thought I'd give it a try, it gave me a 10 second preview of a working file which looked promising, paid the money and bought a full version and it did the trick, was able to completely recover the file from the corrupt card, process was quite simple, choose the file, give it a known working file from the same camera and it did its thing, only took about 30 seconds to repair a 3 minute video
This is the program I ended up using
Said I'd see what we could do but really didn't expect to have any luck given the age of the card and lack of formatting for 5 years, tried some free solutions I could find and nothing worked, found some software that had a free trial so I thought I'd give it a try, it gave me a 10 second preview of a working file which looked promising, paid the money and bought a full version and it did the trick, was able to completely recover the file from the corrupt card, process was quite simple, choose the file, give it a known working file from the same camera and it did its thing, only took about 30 seconds to repair a 3 minute video
This is the program I ended up using
Video Repair Tool to Repair Corrupt MP4, MOV and other Video Files
Best Video repair tool that fixes corrupt videos in few easy steps. Supports 17 popular formats, including MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, AVCHD, etc.
www.stellarinfo.com