High-end cameras from manufacturers such as Nikon and Canon use CF cards as storage media due to their durability and speed.Ī CF card can hold up to 256 GB of data. They are physically larger than SD (Secure Digital) cards which have made them less popular for use with mobile devices such as smartphones. The techniques we discuss will enable you to recover files from a formatted CF card or one that has experienced data loss due to human error or malware corruption.Ĭompact Flash (CF) cards are small devices used to expand the storage capabilities of digital cameras. In this article, we are going to look at compact flash card recovery on Mac computers. Depending on what was stored on the device, the loss of this data can be disastrous. As with all types of storage devices, the potential exists for unexpected data loss.
