sirmandy

I'm curious, were you also using a Sandisk SD card as well, Jomo? I was warned about picking one of these up on Amazon from my local camera shop - seems like they were right!

Thanks so much for linking the Sandisk program and refreshing my memory about this - I was actually using a Sandisk SD card which came with a free subscription to this exact software (RescuePRO Deluxe), but I had totally forgotten about it. Happy to say that after 5+ hours of recovering, I was able to use it to retrieve 523 images that I thought were wiped out. What a huge relief! The fact that they included the subscription to the recovery software makes me concerned that this is a very frequent problem (SD card file integrity issues), otherwise they wouldn't be bundling the software with their SD cards. Not sure if it was a buffer-specific issue with the Fuji camera (X-T3) itself, as it seems like I was doing multi-bursts (~11 fps) in CH mode at the moment when the storage was corrupted (also noticed a few frames that were malformed too even after recovery).

I ran into this exact same problem as Jomo, but on my X-T3 recently. 400+ photos from a recent photo shoot were showing up on the camera, but when attempting to read the SD card on the Mac, none of the newer raw/jpeg images showed up for importing via Apple Photos, Image Capture, etc. and I also tried accessing directly on the Finder and via Terminal, but the files were not there either. I also tried to load the SD card on a Windows laptop as well, with the same issues (older photos visible, but none of the new ones). The 400 photos could only be accessed via the camera. After turning the camera on and off a few times, the 400+ photos from the photo shoot have now completely disappeared from the camera entirely, and I did not have the opportunity to import the photos via the Cam Remote app. My hunch is that the photos were cached on disk somehow, and the cache was wiped out after a few system boots. Does anyone have any ideas for how to recover these photos? Given this recent nightmare, I'm thinking I will need to set the card slot setting to "BACKUP" just so I can have photos duplicated on a second SD card, but I don't know if I will run into this caching issue again on both cards.