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by in_cahoots 282 days ago
Yeah, after you've had this problem once it seems you'd uncheck delete after import before buying a literally entirely new photography system.
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My workflow is don't delete after import but format the card in the camera afterwards. I have XXXL cards and it is not such a problem if I forget to format.

I had one case where I screwed up a shoot and thought file corruption might have been involved (it wasn't) Even though I had formatted the card with the camera and shot maybe 5 test shots I was able to recover most of the images with Disk Drill

https://www.cleverfiles.com/data-recovery-software.html

which has both Windows and Mac versions and looking at a sample of them confirmed it wasn't corruption, it was user error.

(for media files, the linux tool of choice is PhotoRec, sometimes packaged as part of testdisk)
Or just treat the SD cards as write-once and keep buying new ones