How to Recover Deleted or Corrupted GoPro Video and Photo Files from SD Card?

GoPro cameras, with the latest release of its Hero 12 Black, are a hit among outdoor enthusiasts and video makers to capture action shots. You may have saved a lot of videos and photos in this stable and versatile device, but by  mistake or by accident, you deleted your GoPro files and want to bring them back now.

Thanks to the advanced IT solutions today, retrieving deleted files can now be done by anyone. To recover files from GoPro, including videos and photos, we just need to rescue the data from its SD Card, by using following methods.

 Best GoPro Recovery Software for Mac and Windows

Recover Deleted GoPro Videos and Photos with Ease

• Support GoPro Hero 12, 11, 10, 9 and earlier models
• Recover both GoPro videos and photos
• Repair corrupt GoPro videos and photos
• Preview GoPro files before recovery
• Retrieve GoPro files to selected drive or cloud storage devices
• Recover 1000+ files besides video and photo: document, email, archive, audio, etc.
• Restore files from internal and external storage device, including SD Card
• Repair Office documents as well, also support unsaved document recovery
• Create backup from disk image and restore files

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Quickly Recover Deleted GoPro Videos or Photos via GoPro Plus

You may have subscribed GoPro to enjoy the premium features like exclusive savings on cameras and unlimited cloud storage. If you have backed up a copy of the deleted files to GoPro cloud, then you can just log into your GoPro Plus account and restore the deleted files from cloud.

1. Visit plus.gopro.com, login with your account.
2. Check the media library, select the deleted video or photo file that you want to restore, then choose Download or Share to bring it back to your GoPro.

How to Recover Deleted GoPro Videos or Photos from SD Card on Mac and Windows?

If you don’t have a GoPro Plus account and find GoPro Plus cloud storage does not, for whatever reason, work, you’ll have to turn to an in-depth method, using a professional data recovery program. Thanks to Cisdem Data Recovery, we can scan and recover deleted GoPro files easily at a price that under out budget.

Available on both macOS and Windows, Cisdem Data Recovery is a dedicated program that helps users find deleted, lost, formatted files from internal disk in their Mac or Windows PC, from external storage media like HDD, SSD, SD Card, USB and so on. 

Speaking of recovering files from SD Card, Cisdem has a SD Card recovery mode, which allows users to insert any kind of SD Card to a Mac or Windows PC, no matter it is from a camera like GoPro, camcorder, media player, even game console. And it can recover both videos and photos file in your camera, letting users preview the files before the recovery process.

Main Features of Cisdem Data Recovery

• Recover files from both internal and external drive
• Restore data that is lost under different situations
• Recover 1000+ files: video, photo, audio, document, email, archive, etc.
• Repair damaged videos, photos and Office documents
• Filter and search files quickly
• Preview files for recovery
• Create backup from disk image and restore files
• Recover files to local folder or iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, OneBox, etc.
• Resume scanning from search records

Steps to Recover Deleted GoPro Videos or Photos from SD Card on Mac and Windows

1. Download and install Cisdem Data Recovery on your Mac or Windows PC.
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2. Connect the SD Card from your GoPro to the slot of your Mac or PC, or connect with a card reader.
3. Run Cisdem Data Recovery, go to Hardware Disk > SD Card, select the GoPro SD Card from the list, and choose device as GoPro, then click Search for lost files.
4. Go to Pictures or Videos to find the deleted GoPro files, also you can use the filter tool or search box to quickly locate a file.
5. Double click the GoPro file to preview, select the files and click Recover.

Cisdem Repair Corrupted GoPro Videos and Photos Files Too

Cisdem can also repair corrupted videos and photos, but in a different way. It repairs photos in the preview process, if you finally can open and view a photo, the file is auto repaired. But for corrupted GoPro videos, you need to use its Video Repair tool, which offers both quick and advanced method to fix damaged videos in batch.

1. Run Cisdem Data Recovery, go to Video Repair.
2. Add all the corrupted GoPro videos to the tool, click Repair or Repair all.
3. If there is any problem of fixing the corrupted videos, click Browse to add a sample video to repair.
4. Preview the repaired GoPro videos or view in Finder.

Best Free GoPro Recovery Software

Cisdem is proved to be a perfect solution to recover deleted GoPro files, but if you are looking for a free piece of GoPro recovery software, PhotoRec is worth a try. 

PhotoRec may be not the most comprehensive tool, but it is powerful enough to recover a lot of files from internal and external hard drives, CD-ROMs and from digital camera memory cards. It is excellent at recovering photos and videos, which is also the reason why it is called PhotoRec. It is highly compatible on macOS, Windows, Linux and DOS, you can use this freeware to recover deleted GoPro files from SD Card on your device easily.

However, PhotoRec doesn’t come with a user-friendly GUI, it is command line based, you have to run the program with a shell tool, for example, Terminal for macOS, Command Prompt for Windows. To make choices in PhotoRec, use the arrows on your keyboard. Here we will list the recovery process on a Mac.

How to Recover Deleted GoPro Videos and Photos from SD Card for Free?

1. Connect the GoPro SD Card to Mac slot or via a card reader.
2. Download and install PhotoRec onto your Mac. Run PhotoRec in Terminal and enter password.
3. Select the GoPro SD Card and press Enter.
4. Choose the Partition type and press Enter. 
5. Choose filesystem type and press Enter. 
6. Choose the destination to save the recovered files and enter C to start the GoPro file recovery. 
7. Check the recovered videos or photos in the destination folder.

How to Recover Deleted GoPro Files with Backup?

It is a standard procedure to recover deleted files from a back-up, if you have a copy that may be stored either via Time Machine on macOS, or File History on Windows, or on online servers like iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, you can begin the recovery process as follows, according to where you have backup the files.

Recover Deleted GoPro Files with Backup on Mac

1. Connect the backup drive to your Mac.
2. Click the Time Machine icon and Enter Time Machine. 
3. Browse the folders and files to find the deleted GoPro files, use the timeline to choose a wanted version. 
4. Click Restore to recover the deleted files, and transfer the files to your GoPro SD Card if you want to.

Recover Deleted GoPro Files with Backup on Windows

1. Connect the backup drive to your Windows PC.
2. Enter File History in Windows search box.
3. Choose Restore personal files.
4. Browse the folders and files, find the deleted GoPro files.
5. Select the videos or photos, click Restore button. Then transfer the files to your GoPro SD Card.

Recover Deleted GoPro Files with Google Drive Backup

1. Log into your Google Drive account.
2. Go to My Drive, find the deleted GoPro files. Also you can filter files quickly by choosing a file type first. 
3. Select the deleted GoPro files from the back up, right click to Download.
4. Save the files to your GoPro SD Card again.

Conclusion

You may have decided which GoPro data recovery software to download and use, but before getting started, remember each time you insert the SD Card to a Mac or Windows PC for recovery, you are risking because the data on the GoPro SD Card will be overwrite and lost forever. If you want those files back badly and don’t have any backup, start with Cisdem Data Recovery that gives you a higher recovery rate.