Canon PowerShot SD960 IS Digital ELPH is the US name of digital camera of Canon IXUS/IXY/PowerShot ELPH series. The camera features 12.1 megapixel resolution with a unique face-detection technology. It includes various alike capabilities that combine to make it a suitable example of complete photography device. Canon PowerShot SD960 IS Digital ELPH camera supports memory cards like SD, SDHC, MMC, MMC+, and HC MMC+ and uses JPEG and MOV file formats for still images and videos respectively. Though the camera gives a rigid physical appearance against any crash, but it is recommended to handle its storage with an extreme care. There can be instances in which you may find your pictures and videos completely inaccessible from Canon PowerShot SD960 IS Digital ELPH camera. Such situations are referred as 'digital data loss' and require you to restore from a good backup or use a Picture recovery product.

A Canon PowerShot SD960 IS Digital ELPH camera user can observe 'digital data loss' out of various reasons, such as mentioned below:

1. User deletes one or more images or movies accidentally. This can occur when the user mistakenly chooses any of the erasing modes such as 'Single image', 'Select by date' , 'Select by folder' , 'Select range', 'Select by category', 'All images', 'All of movie', or 'Part of movie'.

2. User ejects the memory card or switches off the camera unexpectedly and finds it undetectable at next attempt of reading the card. This occurs if the camera was writing data when you performed either of the operations.

3. The camera shows low-battery but you repeatedly takes images or photos. Doing so can corrupt the file system of memory card or camera.

4. Accessing, deleting, editing or moving the files on the memory card while its data is being used by the computer.

Solution

In most of the above cases (except accidental deletion), the memory card becomes unusable. So a Canon PowerShot SD960 IS Digital ELPH camera user needs to reformat the card to make it reusable and restore the deleted files from a backup. In case of backup unavailability, a Picture recovery software can rescue.

A Digital picture recovery utility can recover all types of pictures, audios, and videos that have been lost due to media reformatting, accidental deletion, media corruption or any similar event. It is available for both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.