(And, if you don't have an HTC phone, rooting the phone voids the warranty. So rooting the phone and installing DiskDigger could potentially overwrite one or more of the deleted files. Anything you save from that point on could get stored where that file was. ![]() When a file gets "deleted", the file doesn't go anywhere - the space it's in gets marked as unused. (Install Google Opinion Rewards and you'll make that in a week or two - for spending 30 seconds a few times a week checking multiple choice answers.) (But, again, see that last paragraph.) If you want to recover other types of files you need the paid version DiskDigger Pro. It was so obvious once I saw it on the PhotoRec site.) Or, rather, the app you're going to use does. Yes, you still have to be rooted, but it's one of those "whyt didn't I think of that" things. (But see the last paragraph of this guide. Don't look for a "way out", a "back door", you need access to a part of the file system that only the user "root" can access. You can not recover a deleted file unless the phone is rooted. ![]() Unless you're already set up to recover deleted files, you're probably going to lose at least part of one file. What do you do? That depends on whether the file was on internal storage or the external SD card. (Being a parent, grandparent, uncle, etc., almost makes me want to cry when someone lost the only pictures of their first child's first steps.)īut it's too late now, you didn't back that picture up and it's gone. So from now on, make sure you back up at least the really important things as soon as possible. Take a picture or video, it's great, back it up right then. Many of them have free apps, so you can do the backup right from the phone, out in the middle of I-40 (unless you're in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, also known as Great Smoky Mountains Signal Hole for all Carriers). ![]() You can probably get a few TB of free space. There are at least a few dozen free cloud accounts you can get by googling free cloud account. If it's worth having, it's worth backing up. Of course it's the other way around - any file you don't need, you don't back up. An old computer saying has it that any file not backed up is a file you don't need. Another minute of your life wasted copying it back to the phone. (See Backing up an Android Phone.) If it's on your computer, and on a cloud account, and it gets deleted from your phone, oh, well. Always back up anything that's important. Now your question is "how do I recover a deleted picture?" So where did your pictures go? They probably got deleted. If the picture file is on the phone you'll see it in Gallery (or QuickPic, a much better app). The "album" name the pictures are in is the folder the files are in. When you run Gallery it looks at that list for picture files, finds each one and displays them. ![]() Videos, music, pictures - any media files. When you turn the phone on, or restart it, a system function called Media Scanner runs, listing all the media files on the phone and, if you have one, the external SD card. Oh, no! There are no pictures! What happened to them? Where did they go?įirst, a little lesson on how Android works. You turn on your phone, open Gallery to see a picture you took last week and.
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