How to Recover Deleted Blink Videos
How to recover deleted Blink videos? Try Clip backup with USB, local storage, or powerful data recovery software - AOMEI FastRecovery.
Blink is an American home automation company that produces battery-powered home security cameras (outdoor security cameras, home security systems & video doorbells). And Amazon announced the acquisition of Blink in December 2017.
Thus, Blink cameras are good helpers for people to secure their homes and offices. But what if you accidentally deleted videos on Blink?
Is there a way to recover deleted videos on Blink?
Most Blink users have purchased a subscription to save clips and videos and get copies of these media files. With subscription accounts, USB backups provide a possibility to recover deleted Blink videos even if you’ve permanently deleted them from your Blink app and cloud storage. There are two types of backups below:
✦Clip Backup with USB:
One of the features of the Blink Subscription Plan is the Clip Backup, which allows you to save cloud-based clips to a USB stick.
- To access your cloud-based clips, you’ll have no choice but to seek help from the Blink app.
- Your backup clips will automatically update every 24 hours and be sent to your USB.
- Clip Backups can be seen after the USB has been safely ejected from Sync Module 2 and connected to a PC.
✦Local Storage:
If you don’t have an active Blink Subscription Plan but want to use Local Storage, you will need a Sync Module 2 managed system with a USB flash drive plugged into it.
However, please note that a free monthly subscription cannot automatically store your motion clips and Live View sessions on Blink’s cloud servers. Not to mention browsing cloud-based clips in the Blink app.
| Plan | Monthly cost | Yearly cost | Number of cameras | Cloud storage | Extended warranty |
| No Plan | $0.00 | $0.00 | Unlimited | None | ✖ |
| Blink Basic | $3.00/month | 30.00/year | 1 | 60 days | ✖ |
| Blink Plus | $10.00/month | 100.00/year | Unlimited | 60 days | ✔ |
How to recover deleted Blink videos without backups
Once the deleted clips or videos reach their auto-deletion time (60 days in the US or 30 days in the EU/UK), they’ll be permanently deleted from your Blink app or cloud server. Unlike Google Drive, permanently deleted cloud files cannot be recovered, even if you ask for help from Blink Customer Support.
Thus, this part aims to help you recover deleted Blink videos from local backups. More specifically, you’re seeking ways to recover deleted local USB backups containing the Blink videos you want.
So, can you recover deleted Blink videos without backups? In this scenario, powerful & handy data recovery software like AOMEI FastRecovery is ready for all users to retrieve deleted Blink videos from USB drives easily.
- 💻 All-inclusive: Apply to a variety of data loss scenarios such asdeletion, disk formatting, system crashes, or virus attacks.
- 📚 Multiple video formats: Recover deleted or lost videos, such asMP4, MOV, AVI, ASF, WMV, RM, FLV, QSV, RMVB, X3F, etc.
- 2️⃣ Advanced scanning methods: AOMEI FastRecovery integrates Quick Scan & Deep Scan to search all the recoverable files, displaying by Type or Path and allowing you to sort across multiple options.
- 🚀 High-efficiency: Include a complete suite of recovery features, such as filter, search, preview, crashed PC recovery, etc., to make this process simple and efficient.
- 👍 Excellent compatibility: Supports different storage devices, such as HDDs/SSDs, USB drives, SD cards, etc., and NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, and ReFS file systems.
- 🔥Free data recovery, supporting up to 500MB.
Please avoid saving new videos or other files to your USB after data loss! Let’s learn how to recover deleted Blink videos via AOMEI FastRecovery now!
Step 1. Connect the USB to your Windows computer. After running AOMEI FastRecovery, select your USB drive and click the “Scan” button.
Step 2. It will automatically perform a Quick Scan to find all files, including deleted Blink videos (.mp4). Under the Type section, click Videos and sort them by name, date modified, type, etc. Or directly type the file name in the search box to find them quickly.
Step 3. Once found, select the data you want and preview it. Then, click “Recover” to begin the video data recovery process. Please choose a new location to save your retrieved Blink videos.
Conclusion
This article introduces you to how to recover deleted Blink videos in 3 methods. For subscription users, you can try Clip Backup. If not, try local storage or reliable data recovery software - AOMEI FastRecovery. The local storage provided by Blink apps requires a Sync Module 2 managed system with a USB flash drive plugged in.
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