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Recover deleted photos

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  • 17-02-2013 4:26pm
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    leemaree
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭


    I looked at my gallery on my Samsung galaxy s3 last week and I couldn't believe my eyes when my photos had gone. They were very important. Is there any way of getting them back? I don't have a memory card in my phone


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    danniemcq
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    did you have sync for dropbox, google drive or any other sync service?

    if you hook up the phone to your pc can you look for the folder manually? or try installing another gallery app and see if it shows up then. Quickpic is a good one


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    wesf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭wesf


    download and run recuva http://download.cnet.com/Recuva/3000-2242_4-10753287.html
    if the files are missing from the destination folder on the phone, hook the phone up to your laptop and run this program, you can browse to the folder on the phone through this program and this will recover any lost files, used it a few times, always worked


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    BopNiblets
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    danniemcq wrote: »
    did you have sync for dropbox, google drive or any other sync service?
    Is googles default one that syncs with picasaweb.google.com turned on by default on the S3?
    If so login there and check.


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    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    BopNiblets wrote: »
    Is googles default one that syncs with picasaweb.google.com turned on by default on the S3?
    If so login there and check.

    it should be but you might have to sign in with your google+ account or at least have it set up in the settings for when to sync

    i think!


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    leemaree
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭leemaree


    wesf wrote: »
    download and run recuva http://download.cnet.com/Recuva/3000-2242_4-10753287.html
    if the files are missing from the destination folder on the phone, hook the phone up to your laptop and run this program, you can browse to the folder on the phone through this program and this will recover any lost files, used it a few times, always worked

    what folder is that?


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    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    leemaree wrote: »
    what folder is that?

    look for phone memory and then DCIM

    but to be sure i'd search the entire drive if possible


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    leemaree
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭leemaree


    danniemcq wrote: »
    did you have sync for dropbox, google drive or any other sync service?

    if you hook up the phone to your pc can you look for the folder manually? or try installing another gallery app and see if it shows up then. Quickpic is a good one

    I found a lot in Dropbox but they were the ones when I first got the phone. But there not the one I'm talking about. They are other ones that I took that are not in Dropbox


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    wesf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭wesf


    yeh the dcim folder, or as dannie said, search the lot!
    once you click in dcim you should see something similar to the pic i attached, i presume it's pix you've taken with the camera so they should be in the camera folder


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    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    wesf wrote: »
    yeh the dcim folder, or as dannie said, search the lot!
    once you click in dcim you should see something similar to the pic i attached, i presume it's pix you've taken with the camera so they should be in the camera folder

    good point if they were taken with an app thats not stock they will be in a different folder.


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    leemaree
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭leemaree


    wesf wrote: »
    yeh the dcim folder, or as dannie said, search the lot!
    once you click in dcim you should see something similar to the pic i attached, i presume it's pix you've taken with the camera so they should be in the camera folder

    Yeah, I checked the DCIM folder and there's photos there but there still not the ones I'm talking about.


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    wesf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭wesf


    did you check with the recuva software?


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    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    are they photos that you took with the stock android camera or did you use instagram or 360 panarama or any other app like that?


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    BopNiblets
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    leemaree wrote: »
    I found a lot in Dropbox but they were the ones when I first got the phone. But there not the one I'm talking about. They are other ones that I took that are not in Dropbox

    Did you find any on https://picasaweb.google.com ?


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    leemaree
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭leemaree


    wesf wrote: »
    did you check with the recuva software?

    I checked the recuva and it keeps stopping. it doesn't finish


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    BaconZombie
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    You can try PhotoRec but I don't know if it will work on the phone memory.
    Connect the phone as a storage device and do a FULL disk scan.

    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec


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    leemaree
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭leemaree


    BopNiblets wrote: »
    Did you find any on https://picasaweb.google.com ?

    Nope :(


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    leemaree
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭leemaree


    BaconZombie wrote: »
    You can try PhotoRec but I don't know if it will work on the phone memory.
    Connect the phone as a storage device and do a FULL disk scan.

    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec[/QUOTE]

    I clicked on the link but i dont know which to choose. It takes me to different ones


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    deren
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    You can use some data recovery tools if you don't have backups of them.

    Use Mobikin Android Data recovery program to scan your phone and restore lost data from it.
    Only a  few steps you can get back your lost data from your phone.


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    GBX
    Registered Users Posts: 11,917 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    deren wrote: »
    You can use some data recovery tools if you don't have backups of them.

     Data recovery program to scan your phone and restore lost data from it.
    Only a  few steps you can get back your lost data from your phone.

    After 4 years I'd imagine the OP has either sorted it or replaced their phone.


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