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By *agatoXXXMan 25 weeks ago
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"Accidently deleted video and pics form my gallery.
Checked on deleted items and files but can't find them.
Managed to recover some from an app on Google play store.
How can I recover the others?
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Are deleted from the recycle bin too? That's a two-stage process, so isn't easy to do accidentally. |
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"Accidently deleted video and pics form my gallery.
Checked on deleted items and files but can't find them.
Managed to recover some from an app on Google play store.
How can I recover the others?
Are deleted from the recycle bin too? That's a two-stage process, so isn't easy to do accidentally."
Recycle bin gets emptied after 30 days. Have managed to recover some but not all. |
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Unfortunately, I doubt you'll recover any of the missing files.
It's a horrible lesson to learn. Google Photos and Microsoft One Drive provide a certain amount of free storage that you can set to back up selected folders on your phone. |
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I always figure that photos aren't safe until they're at least both backed up to the cloud and independently stored on two different physical drives in my desktop computer. I don't trust pure cloud backups, in case the automatic sync of backup with phone contents decides that photos being (accidentally) deleted from my phone means that I want to delete them from the backup as well.
I also don't trust SD cards for any backup purpose, the damn things are manufactured down to the lowest possible cost, quality and data security are often abysmal. Any unknown far eastern make are generally garbage, rejects from the production lines of known makes, often with fake capacity (tells the computer that it's got eg. 128GB when it's really only 32GB, works fine for the first 32GB of data written to it, then GB number 33 randomly overwrites earlier data and trashes the entire contents of the card). Even many of the "proper known company" SD cards can be counterfeits, you can't tell at all from the packaging - the counterfeiting is not little back street scams, it's multi million unit operations. Buy from ebay = probably junk. Buy from amazon direct (not vendor) = might be good, but you need to test by totally filling it, and at least you can get a refund if it's junk.
Even if it's the best SD card in the world, many phones can corrupt them if the battery runs out while accessing the card, or after a couple of years the data can just leak away on its own...
Unless your data is backed up to your own computer, multiple copies of it, and preferably at least one copy on a removable drive stored in a different location, assume that sooner or later some of it will get lost. It's unfortunate if you lose personal pics etc, but it's a disaster if you lose the keys to your £multi-million bitcoin account... |
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