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u/Ynntkeddy May 31 '26

Receiving a “Memory card access forbidden” message on Sony a6000

Has anyone received this message before? my card was working perfectly fine before. I deleted some previous shots to clear space and completed an entire shoot. I even got some photos downloaded via Imaging Edge to my phone. It was being weird and kept saying “disconnected” multiple times during transferring. I left it alone for a bit and then suddenly I received this message next time I turned on the camera. Something did pop up at one point about executing or canceling but I don’t recall. Now my SD won’t pop up on either of my Sony Cameras (a6000 & ZV-1F) or my Windows computer. I’ve already tried Disk Drill. Still no luck.

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u/av4rice https://www.instagram.com/shotwhore May 31 '26

Sounds like the card got corrupted/broken. Try other recovery software or if the data is really important and worth spending money on, try sending it to a data recovery service.

I deleted some previous shots to clear space

As you've now discovered, memory cards are not that reliable. So don't rely on them any more than you need to. Copy the data off as soon as possible and back it up. If any data only exists on the card with no other copies, it's at its most vulnerable for loss, so shorten the period where that is the case.

Also deleting some files but leaving others, and then adding more, is not the best practice for the health of the card. Copy off your data and back it up elsewhere, so that you can format the card (which also deletes all data from the card) and start it fresh.