GoPro could be the number one brand for action photographers. It’s loved by people who always have outdoor sports. In this case, hundreds of videos and photos are shot by GoPro cameras. Can you recover deleted videos from GoPro? It is the question asked by many people. For sure, if you accidentally deleted GoPro videos, you can get them back.
What to Act for How to Retrieve Deleted Videos from GoPro
1. Stop using your GoPro camera if you have found you had deleted videos there. If you’re going to use the GoPro camera again, please get the SD card off to perform video recovery first. Any operation on the SD card might cause videos overwritten.
2. Download and install iBatsoft Data Recovery (for Windows PC) or Mac iBatsoft Data Recovery. Install it on the computer where you’re going to recover deleted GoPro videos.
iBatsoft Data Recovery – Recover Deleted Videos from GoPro with 3 Steps
why iBatsoft Data Recovery is recommended? Tested and used by thousands of people, iBatsoft really has done a great job to help users find lost or deleted videos. And the latest version has updated the feature to improve the quality of the recovered videos, solving the problem that many data recovery tools have encountered, namely some recovered videos cannot be opened. What’s more important, over 1000 users have used it successfully recovered deleted GoPro videos and photos. Here are the simple steps for how does it work to get back videos.
- Get the GoPro video recovery software. Install it on your computer properly. After then, you need to take the SD card from the GoPro camera, connect it with your computer, making sure it is recognized by your computer.
- Launch iBatsoft Data Recovery. In the left panel of the Window, you can see the list of all computer internal and external hard drives. Select the one that stands for the SD card and click "Scan" beside it.
- When the scanning process is finished, you can see all the found files. Select the needed videos and click "Save" to recover the deleted GoPro videos. You can also try the "Ultra Scan" in the result window to scan the GoPro camera again, retrieving more deleted videos from GoPro.
Reasons that cause Videos Lost from GoPro
- Accidentally deleted GoPro videos. While holding the GoPro camera, it’s very likely you can delete the videos there without any attention.
- Videos missing during transferring. It usually happens when you were transferring GoPro videos between the computer and the camera, only to find no video on neither device.
- Something went wrong with the GoPro camera SD card like you formatted it, it becomes raw, or system errors on the SD card, what’s worse, the SD card is damaged.
Frequently Asked Question for GoPro Video Recovery
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The very moment you find video and photos are missing, if you have taken out the SD card, you should put back the SD card to GoPro Camera, checking Camera roll whether the videos and photos are there or not. You can even try the GoPro app to see the content. If they’re there, please back up them to GoPro cloud service or other cloud services.
If there is nothing left in the SD card when you check the card with the GoPro camera and GoPro mobile app, connect the SD card with the computer, download iBatsoft Data Recovery to scan and recover the missing GoPro videos and photos.
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LRV is another format of GoPro videos. iBatsoft Data Recovery fully supports the file format and will be able to recover GoPro LRV files
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It depends on whether you can recover deleted videos on GoPro App. If you can see the deleted videos on the GoPro app, then to recover the deleted videos on GoPro, you must subscribe to GoPro cloud service – GoPro Plus, saving the deleted GoPro videos to cloud service.
- Tap to open the GoPro app and select My account.
- Navigate to GoPro Plus and switch the Mobile Upload option to ON.
- Select the videos and back them up to the cloud.
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All videos are saved in GoPro SD card. If videos deleted from the SD card, do as follows.
- Stop using the SD card first. Take it out of the GoPro camera.
- Connect the SD card with computer
- Download and install iBatsoft Data Recovery
- Open the data recovery software and click the Scan button beside the SD card.
- Find and recover deleted GoPro videos from GoPro SD card.