PICTURES SEEM GONE!! Very nervous, please put me at ease.

[SebasCvdB]

Install Dropbox it has Camera upload feature... As soon as you take a picture it will upload to Dropbox...

 

[dakeb]

yep, so will Skydrive and Google+. I use Dropbox because I get 50Gb for free. You can set it so it only uses WiFi.

 

[mouseglider]

So earlier, I noticed that I had about 400 MB left on my internal space.

So I put my phone into my computer via USB, and planned on transfering my many pictures located on my internal to a hard drive. When I located the "pictures" photo where it's located, I noticed that my pictures (located in my "screenshots") folder, was empty! That's not true at all, as I had pulled them up in Astro and even though it took a while, they were there!

So I figured what the hell and cut and paste the folder over to the hard drive. It took a LOOOOOOOOOONG time, but when it finished, nothing was there! Luckily, it seemed like they were STILL on my phone. Weird.

Not luckily. Because now my PHONE suddenly has 9 GB of free space! And in that folder, it's STILL empty! Upon moving that folder back, it shows as EMPTY in Astro! What the HELL.

There's about 26,000 photos over the course of 3 years on there, and it seems to be lost in the void! I need as much help as I can, please help put me at ease and know I can get these files back. Thank you so much.

This won't help your problem because with the information you gave, it seems impossible, and your photo's are probably gone, but just a few curious questions:

1) the SPH-L710 was introduced may 29 of 2012 - how could you have photos taken with that phone for 3 years? - this doesn't make sense
2) 26,000 photos even at low resolution, is more than your phones internal memory can hold - really that many photos?
3) screenshots are not in DCIM but are in sdcard0/pictures/screenshots - so check in that directory
4) As "dakeb" said, using cut and paste rather than copy and paste might have been your downfall
5) is this the first backup you did on your 3 years worth of 26,000 photos?

Sorry to hear, but if I were a betting man with the info you gave - I think your photos may be gone and not retrievable - but if you did get them back I would like to know how as it might help others.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[SebasCvdB]

This won't help your problem because with the information you gave, it seems impossible, and your photo's are probably gone, but just a few curious questions:

1) the SPH-L710 was introduced may 29 of 2012 - how could you have photos taken with that phone for 3 years? - this doesn't make sense
2) 26,000 photos even at low resolution, is more than your phones internal memory can hold - really that many photos?
3) screenshots are not in DCIM but are in sdcard0/pictures/screenshots - so check in that directory
4) As "dakeb" said, using cut and paste rather than copy and paste might have been your downfall
5) is this the first backup you did on your 3 years worth of 26,000 photos?

Sorry to hear, but if I were a betting man with the info you gave - I think your photos may be gone and not retrievable - but if you did get them back I would like to know how as it might help others.

Sorry for your loss.

He couldve transferred photos from an old phone.

26000 photos, have you ever thought about the microSD?


Posted via Android Central App

 

[mouseglider]

Yes, I have heard of a MicroSD, see my sig. Read the OP, he said his photos were on his "internal"

On a GS3 which I use (32gb version with a 64gb microSD), you would not be able to hold that much internally at full resolution of the camera, maybe thumbnails.

But it gets down to the questions I asked was out of curiosity, because of his OP, you might want to read it and my questions again, before being so condescending.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

 

[SebasCvdB]

Alright I apologize, my bad.

Aren't there any apps out there that could help him recover some deleted files?? I would think there are...

 

[bxbshingo]

Just checking to see if there's a way to manually unset the dirty bit on my micro SD card? I've ran CHKDSK and it says that it's unable to mark the volume as clean. I would simply like to move my files, but copying is the only thing available. Is there a way to manually unset it?

 

[bxbshingo]

Also, on the record of my pictures, I have a micro SD as well as internal, that I have transfered from a Droid X, to a previous S3 to my current S3. What's on the SD is backed up. My internal pictures that include camera photos, saved internet pics, music and screenshots arwe what is lost as in what was on the internal.

Question...could something like Wondershare's DrFone program recover my internal stuff? It's worth a shot, but is there a risk with stuff like that? Currently I'm running stock...but if I were to root is that my best chacne to recover what may be lost?

 

[Weazrbmxr]

I haven't used it on a phone before, but piriform's "recuva" is a really nice recovery program. Couldn't hurt to try it out. And rooting won't help with recovery, but will be imperative for full backups in the future, which will result in full recoveries.

What have we learned?? Don't cut.

 

[mouseglider]

Alright I apologize, my bad.

Aren't there any apps out there that could help him recover some deleted files?? I would think there are...

Thank you for your kind response! I can not think of any app out there that could help him - even if he could get the first character of each file back (unless the file structure is corrupt) - 26,000 files would take forever even if the first character of each file was known and correct with no corruption of the file if it is still there and not corrupt if that were possible.

The only possible way and it would be really expensive and not a guarantee would be to contact a data recovery company (below links are a couple of companies):

Data Recovery

Data Recovery Services | Recover Lost Data and Files | Kroll Ontrack

Now it would be the a decesion on how much the picture data is worth.

 

[mouseglider]

Also, on the record of my pictures, I have a micro SD as well as internal, that I have transfered from a Droid X, to a previous S3 to my current S3. What's on the SD is backed up. My internal pictures that include camera photos, saved internet pics, music and screenshots arwe what is lost as in what was on the internal.

Question...could something like Wondershare's DrFone program recover my internal stuff? It's worth a shot, but is there a risk with stuff like that? Currently I'm running stock...but if I were to root is that my best chacne to recover what may be lost?

If it is the internal stuff you loss, you could see if there is a directory called "LOST.DIR" usually internal file, but sometimes on your SD card and if you have that directory folder, left over files might be in there, although the complete and correct file name might not exist correctly, more in the froyo days - but generally that is a recovery directory when connected to an Apple product if I remember correctly.

Did you try checking your sdcard0/Pictures/Screenshot/ directory? Maybe something is still left there?

Also I do not believe rooting would help you.

 

[SebasCvdB]

Let this mistake be a lesson to everyone though, backup backup and oh yes back up. Like I said Dropbox has a nice Camera Upload feature for the photographer in us or even Google Drive (Does not have that feature I believe) but offers you 15GB of free space. I believe Dropbox is 5 last time I checked.. i have 100GB Dropbox space and it's nice to be able to access everything from anywhere.

 

[SebasCvdB]

Thank you for your kind response! I can not think of any app out there that could help him - even if he could get the first character of each file back (unless the file structure is corrupt) - 26,000 files would take forever even if the first character of each file was known and correct with no corruption of the file if it is still there and not corrupt if that were possible.

The only possible way and it would be really expensive and not a guarantee would be to contact a data recovery company (below links are a couple of companies):

Data Recovery

Data Recovery Services | Recover Lost Data and Files | Kroll Ontrack

Now it would be the a decesion on how much the picture data is worth.

Exactly if the pictures are great memories MAYBE the investment is worth it or if you got money to waste. Well hopefully everything works out for the OP 26000 pictures is an aweful lot...