Common GIF (.gif) Deletion or Corruption Cases

• Deleted GIF (.gif) photos after emptying computer Recycle Bin or Trash.
• Accidentally deleted taken pictures off digital cameras by pressing wrong button.
• Formatted memory card or disk drive which contains a batch of GIF (.gif) files.
• Storage media (hard drive, memory card, USB drive etc.) corrupted, causing those GIF (.gif) images inaccessible.
• GIF photos shown as RAW or split into two parts, shift in photo content etc.
• Other GIF (.gif) loss or damage situations.

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is limited to an 8-bit palette, or 256 colors. This makes the GIF format suitable for storing graphics with relatively few colors such as simple diagrams, shapes, logos and cartoon style images. The GIF format supports animation and is still widely used to provide image animation effects. It also uses a lossless compression that is more effective when large areas have a single color, and ineffective for detailed images or dithered images. However, chances are there when you accidentally removed GIF (.gif) files off your computer (by emptying Windows Recycle Bin or Mac Trash), hard disk, digital camera/camcorder, camera media card, cell phone, USB, memory card, memory stick, external ZIP/USB drive, removable smart media, SD cards, etc. Or the GIF (.gif) photos become badly damaged or corrupted and look blurring. Is there any way to recover deleted or corrupt GIF (.gif) files?

Steps of Restoring the Deleted/Formatted/Corrupted/Lost GIF (.gif) Images

In order to deleted, formatted, lost and even corrupted GIF (.gif) images, you need to get a GIF (.gif) recovery software at first. If you don’t have one, you can have my recommendation here: GIF (.gif) recovery software from UFUSoft (compatible with Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP), or GIF (.gif) repair software for Mac (compatible with Mac OS X 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.7, 10.6, or 10.5). Both of the GIF (.gif) Recovery Software enable you to recover deleted/corrupted/formatted/lost GIF (.gif) photos from computer, memory card, external hard drive or other storage devices in 3 steps.

Download Photo Recovery for Mac:

Download Photo Recovery for Windows:

Step 1 Connect your SD card with your computer and launch UFUSoft Photo Recovery for GIF (.gif) program. You will see an interface displays devices supported by this program. Click “Start” to continue.

Note: Please make sure that your SD card can be recognized as a hard drive by your computer.

Step 2 Here the local partitions and external storage devices on your computer will all be scanned and listed by GIF (.gif) Files Recovery. You just need to select the one for your SD card and click “Scan” to detect files in your SD card.

Note: You can click “Filter Options” to refine the scan result in “gif” format.

Step 3 All found files in your SD card will be displayed after the scan. You can preview the found GIF (.gif) files so as to check whether they are what you want to restore or not. Then you just need to select GIF (.gif) files you need and click “Recover” to save them to local folder in your computer.

Note: Please do not save the restored GIF (.gif) images back to your SD card after the recovery.

Download Photo Recovery for Mac:

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