Oh no! I deleted my video footage again. Can I recover it?

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I copied my video footage to the wrong place, deleted it off my Sony camera's SD card, then deleted it from my local computer as well. Can I restore the MP4 video files, or are they toast? All the info in this video is up on my blog as well—check there for the latest links and any future additions: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/recovering-videos-my-sony-camera-i-stupidly-deleted Here are the resources mentioned in this video: - Basic photorec guide: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/rescue-photos-and-other-files-sd-or-microsd-card-photorec - Untrunc (anthwlock's fork): https://github.com/anthwlock/untrunc - Ponchio's guide to MP4 files: https://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~ponchio/untrunc.php - mp4fixer: https://github.com/bookkojot/mp4fixer - Disk Drill: https://www.disk-drill.com Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://www.redshirtjeff.com Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JeffGeerling 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GeerlingEngineering Contents: 00:00 - Oops I did it again 02:02 - photorec scrubs for deleted files 02:58 - MP4 atoms and Sony XAVC moov.mov 04:57 - What I should've done first - dd 07:17 - untrunc to restore MP4 09:47 - Researching MP4 file structure and brute-forcing untrunc 12:42 - Sometimes you just have to pay the piper 14:21 - Disk Drill's advanced camera recovery module 15:55 - Lessons learned