Dear All,
i wanted to backup my whole Camera folder with all the contents, therefore i connected to the PC via MTP
and started to move (now i know it was a very bad idea) to the PC folder.
Before the moving it was suspicious that the DCIM folder is not visible in the Camera folder but i thought that probably it is not loaded yet (this slowness can happen using the MTP protocol ).
So after i moved the Camera folder, checked its content on the PC but the DCIM folder was not there.
Then i reconnected the phone and looked into the phone's storage but there were no Camera folder (of course because of the move command).
So i lost all of my pictures. :crying:
I would be appreciated if someone could tell me what could be happened, and if are there any operation to recover my folder?
p.s.: I tried some recovery apps like disk digger, but are unfortunaltely not so effective.
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i had just connected my n4 to pc and was viewing the files and saw a folder called storage or something like that. I had never seen it before nor did i create it. it was empty so i deleted it but then when i opened es file explorer on my phone somehow all of my folders were deleted. My music folder was entirely deleted, all the pictures were deleted, all app data in android folder were deleted and so were some of the backup apks i had there. luckily i had my stuff saved on my computer but anyone know why this happened? is there really a specific folder that if i delete it can delete everything or was it just a fluke?
Edit: stuff like text messages and call log are still there so i think it only deleted data on the internal sdcard and not anything else.
It's the internal sdcard's mount point. By deleting it, you pretty much wipe your personal data clean.
Not sure how it was possible to see, let alone delete it on your PC, though.
I did this on my galaxy Nexus too....
I just don't like how it mount to PC
This happened to me too. Needless to say, I learnt my lesson.
Where is everyone seeing this "storage" folder? when i connect my phone to my pc all I see listed under Portable Devices is Nexus 4.
Browse your Nexus 4 portable device and you should find the storage folder in the root directory along with many other folders such as DCIM and Android.
Hi
I'm an idiot human and deleted my camera folder. I'm not rooted. Can I recover it? It was on the micro sd card.
thanks
I've found a fix for this. Much of the pc recovery freeware is useless (on the playstore its pretty much all useless unless rooted) as it scans the files which takes ages, then says you need to buy to recover. After 6 or 7 attempts at trying different software I found 'recuva' free which did a grand job and recovered pretty much all the files. I removed the sd card and mounted it in my laptop, it recovers them to a file on the laptop and they then just needed copying back to SD. Take a photo first and the camera folder gets recreated.
One improvement I can see on Android is the ability to 'lock' the camera/DCIM folders so they cannot be deleted with just one click, but allow content to be selected for deletion. Can't be beyond the realms of mankind to build this and include it into core fw without the need to root. This would also be useful for music and other folders where accidently deletion needs to be prohibited.
Hello, I really have no clue and hope you can help me. I even don't know how to search the problem.
Yesterday I wanted to transfer my DCIM folder with lots of photos and videos to my PC using STRG-X. I already had one DCIM folder there, so I chosen "integrate datas in this folder".
I left my PC and when I came back, I couldn't find even one picture on my PC neither on my phone.
Still, the phone says 24,17 of 24,64 GB on internal memory occupied.
Where could the files have gone? And more important, is there a way to dig, where the occupied space is and to retrieve these important files?
I am happy about any help! Thanks!
First question I have is, we're you transferring the DC I'M folder from the phone's micro SD?
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Hello,
first I transferred the DCIM folder of the external micro sd which only contained 6 photos. Then the folder which got lost is the DCIM folder on internal storage.
Addon: when i open the explorer now in win 10, the windows applications crash and reload after 2 seconds. it used to open a "shortly used" tab; luckily I got a direct link on the desktop to a specific folder from where i can navigate.
It seems win 10 messed up something...
violintube said:
Hello,
first I transferred the DCIM folder of the external micro sd which only contained 6 photos. Then the folder which got lost is the DCIM folder on internal storage.
Addon: when i open the explorer now in win 10, the windows applications crash and reload after 2 seconds. it used to open a "shortly used" tab; luckily I got a direct link on the desktop to a specific folder from where i can navigate.
It seems win 10 messed up something...
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Ah ha! You're using Windows 10. I read on another forum here that another user was having issues with accessing their Note 4 via USB (MTP) while using Windows 10. I can't remember how they got around things though.
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Hello,
There is a possibility that internal memory card has some kind of corruption in boot record or file system itself, which is usually fat32 file system on those media devices. It is difficult to diagnose it without physically looking at it. Our company has dealt with such data loss situations before and can attempt to recover lost images. Do you know if this phone internal memory or is it some kind of micro sd card or sd card inside of the phone?
Michael Azzaro
Data Recovery Center
Please help. After connecting my Note 3 to the PC (Win 7) with USB cable, I'm waiting for the Phone and Card folders to pop up in the MS file explorer and then copying some files to a folder on the Card. Everything looks normal on the PC screen. They show up in the destination folder and I can see properties of these files with the right mouse button as usual. However, when I'm opening that same folder on the phone with the Solid Explorer (or any other file manager app) files are gone. USB connection is still there, and I see new files/folder from the PC. After switching to the "Phone" folder and back to the "Card" on PC and navigating to that destination folder - I can see that new files are gone. Anyone could explain me what's going on? Stock Verizon Lollipop, no root.
Turned out to be defective T-Flash, which went Write protected to prevent data loss. Replaced it with Sandisk lifetime warranty. The same has happened after a while with another T-Flash... Hoping the batch was defective. Though it could be the fancy USB reader I'm using, it's died too.
Hi,
This is Android 11 on a Samsung Galaxy A20e. I am UK based.
I copied some photos from the internal memory DCIM folder to my laptop and as usual I delete the photos that I have safely copied but this time I think I actually selected the DCIM folder or all photos in this folder and hit delete. Literally 10 seconds I realised what I was doing and pulled the phone cable out from the laptop as it was deleting rather than 'safely removing'!
Since then all my photos from DCIM in the internal memory are not showing. DCIM now only contains recent photos as if maybe the DCIM folder has been re-created.
I have downloaded to my phone, DiskDigger, but the Basic Photo Search does show these deleted photos. I note that Disk Digger can't do a full scan as the phone is not rooted.
What Windows sw can I use to attempt to recover these photos from the internal memory/DCIM?
If I need to root is there any safe instructions to follow using, for example, MagiDiskv22 and TRWP recovery as its a work phone and don't want to brick it!
Thanks
Staro