Pictures disappeared and I'd like to get them back!

[o2bnclemson]

I took some pics yesterday with my stock camera (pics of me and my kid on my birthday, so they're somewhat sentimental). I tried to upload some using Friendcaster (since Facebook's app sucks) and 3 loaded fine but the 4th didn't load at all. Got hung up. Couldn't upload it with another app either. After it quit trying and said that the upload failed I went to the gallery to try again. I pressed the pic, pressed the Share link, and my finger slipped on the screen - at which point, it appears, not only that picture but two others disappeared. No prompts to delete or anything. I know on a PC there is the Recycle Bin, and I would imagine that on my Thunderbolt that there is a cache, temp file, or something that might have stored those pictures. Would be really nice to get them back. Any ideas are appreciated.

And FYI - I don't know if this was a Gallery thing, a phone thing, a Friendcaster thing, or what.... or just some crazy fluke. Thanks for the help!

 

[mightyfacundo]

I'm guessing that they don't show up back in the gallery after a restart? Have you tried using a file explorer and checking to see if they're in the DCIM file?

 

[o2bnclemson]

Yeah, nosed around in the obvious places. Didn't know if there was a cache or temp file or something. Weird how it just removed 3 of them.

 

[mightyfacundo]

Bummer. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Hopefully someone else has a better idea of what happened to them.

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[K_Daddy]

Any chance your on Google+? If so check there. My instant upload is really fast and I couldn't stop my pics from uploading even when go there right after I take them.

Sent Probably by Accident....

 

[o2bnclemson]

I am - haven't checked there, but I think I turned it off. It's weird. I've taken hundreds of pics on my phone, uploaded dozens of those, and never had a problem. And these literally just disappeared. Crazy. Thanks for all the input.

 

[cadzilla74]

Not that this will retrieve pix if they weren't saved to start with but you might connect your phone to a PC and scan your SD card for errors. The problem may be a failing card which would lead to more file saving and retrieval issues down the road.

 

[natehoy]

Not that this will retrieve pix if they weren't saved to start with but you might connect your phone to a PC and scan your SD card for errors. The problem may be a failing card which would lead to more file saving and retrieval issues down the road.

I'd also sign up for a Dropbox account and install that on your phone. Google Plus makes backup copies of the pictures, but they are at reduced quality. Dropbox's autosync uploads the entire, full-quality image. I take the pictures off my phone every few weeks and delete them from Dropbox at the same time to manage space, but it's nice having a near-instant backup of the images I take.

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[undertothenight]

Try downloading SD card rescan. I had that problem on an old phone and the app helped.

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