Corinne123
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24 minutes ago, Augeas said:
'I downloaded Recuva and ran a deep scan'. On what? Presumably your pc?
Have the photos gone from your phone? (I have no knowledge of phone support.)
Recuva looks for deleted files. Why would your recovered files be deleted?
If you're scanning your pc's drive(s) then you may find a lot of files, not just the files you recovered.
The files you list look more like temp internet files or something similar than pics. Some are too small to hold anything significant. The names are not produced by a deep scan, as this uses ascending numeral names.
' I selected the ones I wanted to recover'. Why did you select these files? What criteria? Why do you think they are your photos?
These are a lot of questions (there are more) but you need to analyse what's going on.
What happened is that I had photos on my Samsung phone that I wanted to transfer to my laptop. The way I went about it is that I connected my phone to my laptop with the USB cable, clicked on "this PC", clicked on my phone in the list of available drives, opened the DCIM/Camera folder, selected my pictures, pressed ctrl+X (cut) then opened a folder on my laptop's desktop to transfer them there and pressed ctrl+V (paste). And then they vanished.
I know it's not the correct way to do it, and I should have copied and pasted, or backed them up and then move them but I didn't.
I downloaded Recuva since it is supposed to find deleted files and ran a deep scan on my laptop's main drive (C) and it found thousands of files. I selected the ones that were labelled as "pictures" by the recovery software, since the files that got lost are pictures, and hit the restore button.
That's how I ended up with this list of files with long weird names and no extensions.
I tried changing the extension, I tested on 2 files and added .png on one and .jpg on the other and tried to open with photo viewer. I got an error message that the file is not supported.
And that's where I am now. Recuva found files that I deleted on purpose but not files that I deleted by accident which is incredibly strange, and I am unable to open the ones it found.
Let me know if you need more info
Thanks
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8 hours ago, Nergal said:
Try to add an extension that might work. Right click the file choose rename, go to the end of the name and type ".jpg" without the quotes
Did that, didn't work.
I added a jpg extension on some and a png extension on others and they don't open.
When I tried to open with photo viewer, i got an error message saying that it doesn't support the file (why would photo viewer not support jpg files is beyond me!)
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Hi
I don't know if this is a bug or if there is something I need to do in order for it to work.
I lost a number of photos while transferring from my phone to my computer and they are nowhere to be found. I looked absolutely everywhere (phone, trash, computer, recycle bin, OneDrive, Google photos, clipboard and anywhere you can think of)
I downloaded Recuva and ran a deep scan to find the lost pictures. The scan brought up a large amount of files and I selected the ones I wanted to recover and hit the restore button.
As I understand, I am not supposed to restore the files on the same drive from where they were lost/deleted as it would affect their quality, so I restored on a disk on key.
When I open my folder on my DOK, I see a list of all the restored files but they don't have an extension so I can't open them. I have attached a screen shot of the contents of the folder.
When I choose to view the results as thumbnails, a very small amount of files have a preview but probably 95% of them don't. I downloaded IrfanView and am unable to open the files with it.
I am lost! Really hope someone can help me!
Thanks
Files are restored without an extension
in Recuva Bug Reporting
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Thank you so much for your response.
I get what you're saying. I can't find a software that can scan my phone and find "lost" pictures, all they find are existing pictures that are in my gallery... I did check Google Drive and also OneDrive which is the one I usually use to back up my data, the thing is that when this happened I didn't have enough available storage on OneDrive so my data had not been backed up in a while. When I upgraded my storage, it was already too late.
I think I'll give up, I pretty much tried everything and looked everywhere and came up empty.
Thanks again for your help :)