That is my understanding too. The only variable is whether you do a quick format, to wipe the TOC, or a deep format, which overwrites the files with zeros. I will assume that the poster that said to format the card had mistaken good files in system memory for those that were corrupted on the SD card & thought they had been restored.
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Yea I think reformatting the card should wipe everything. I recall someone saying that they had their files still available as well - but I'm thinking that they probably did something else or didn't read their files correctly?
Are you saying that file corruption doesn't happen upon writing to the SD card? if you copy files, are they fine after the copy? Is it possible that old files (earlier copy to SD card) get corrupted when new files are copied, or are they damaged while just sitting there? Also, from what I have been reading here, it may be the TOC or system file structure & not the files that is being corrupted, as some have said that reformatting recovers the files. I am going to copy some pictures & leave them & see what happens.
I've noticed that if a file stayed fine for 'awhile,' it tends to stay fine and not become corrupt.
For example, I once copied a large amount of files onto the card to test if they work. They all stayed fine - and continued to do so after copying and saving additional files onto the card. Even if the newer files being added became corrupt, those original files stayed intact.
(However, it gets kinda weird in that if some files that you JUST added become corrupt, other previous files that were very recently added may also get affected... I haven't really seen a specific time frame in how recent the older file have to be fit then to be affected... But I would guess that a few minutes through a couple hours might be an approximate range..)
And if you had semi-recent files added, but they don't become corrupt right away, they might become corrupt after some amount of time (I never really could tell how long it would take, since I would just notice the files corrupt when I look back at them later). So 'some' files may become corrupt after sitting there for awhile, while others might not...
Anyways, I've tried opening the bad files on other devices by opening the uploaded corrupt files on my computer and my tablet. They were uploaded to Dropbox/Google+ automatically from my phone. [Some became corrupt before being able to upload while a majority were just fine]. The ones that were corrupt were not able to be opened on different devices. I also wasn't able to open files that I manually uploaded after they became corrupt.
Do you have any other device you can put the card in? I'm sure the files are OK on the card. It's the Samsung software that misreports file damage.
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You can see my last reply post, but I actually haven't tried reading the card directly on a different device I think... I have only tried looking at uploads of the corrupt files through Dropbox/Google+. Perhaps I can try using my tablet and read my card, which contains a number of bad files on it.
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