Help Deleted photos.

[ChrisC]

Hi, is it possible to recover photos on a phone that has had them mysteriously disappear. Some sort of recovery software or a phone shop that might know something. The phone is a Samsung A53. Just thought I'd put it to all you technically expert Urbanites.

Cheers.

 

[Pickman's model]

Try recuva. Take no more pictures until you've tried the software

 

[editor]

Were you using Google Photos?

 

[ChrisC]

Were you using Google Photos?

No, it is my mum's phone she didn't activate it.

 

[ChrisC]

The photos are lost. Lesson learned backup and Google Drive them. Not going to make that mistake again.

 

[StoneRoad]

I use Ipernity - a photo-hosting site run by it's members - as one of several places to keep images.
I also have chips and an external hard drive ...
But that's with a camera rather than a phone to capture images.

 

[weltweit]

The photos are lost. Lesson learned backup and Google Drive them. Not going to make that mistake again.

Chris are you sure the photos are lost?

When files are deleted, certainly on a PC and I expect on a phone all that happens is the first letter of the filename is deleted. The images are still there on the drive, they just aren't accessible to the normal OS.

As long as the actual space occupied by the files is not overwritten, the files can be recovered with the right software. Effectively you just replace the deleted first letter of the files and hey presto ..

 

[ChrisC]

I'll look into it further. However, the phone has since been used to take photo's. Not sure if that makes any difference.

 

[ruffneck23]

Try recuva. Take no more pictures until you've tried the software

This, it's a great bit of software.

 

[editor]

For future reference:

Back up photos and videos - Android - Google Photos Help

You can automatically save your photos and videos to your Google Account when you turn on backup. You can access your saved photos and videos from any device that you're signed into, but only you can

support.google.com

 

[weltweit]

I'll look into it further. However, the phone has since been used to take photo's. Not sure if that makes any difference.

Some of the old photos may have become un-recoverable if their memory space was overwritten.
But probably not all of them.

 

[ChrisC]

Thanks for the advice.