How do you recover deleted pictures on Samsung tablet and/orexternal hard drive

A friend just left me a message that he copied pictures from his Samsung
tablet to an external hard drive, and then, he *thought* he deleted the
pictures off the Samsung tablet, but now they're nowhere to be found.

I'll get more information from him, but, do you have initial advice for
me as to what he should do to recover the lost pictures?

"Jonathan Williams" wrote in message
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A friend just left me a message that he copied pictures from his Samsung
tablet to an external hard drive, and then, he *thought* he deleted the
pictures off the Samsung tablet, but now they're nowhere to be found.

I'll get more information from him, but, do you have initial advice for
me as to what he should do to recover the lost pictures?




Recuva
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Maybe..............
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~Bruce

On 10/31/2014 6:04 PM, Jonathan Williams wrote:
A friend just left me a message that he copied pictures from his Samsung
tablet to an external hard drive, and then, he *thought* he deleted the
pictures off the Samsung tablet, but now they're nowhere to be found.

I'll get more information from him, but, do you have initial advice for
me as to what he should do to recover the lost pictures?


Look in Recycle-Bin

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:04:01 +0000 (UTC), Jonathan Williams wrote:

A friend just left me a message that he copied pictures from his Samsung
tablet to an external hard drive, and then, he *thought* he deleted the
pictures off the Samsung tablet, but now they're nowhere to be found.

I'll get more information from him, but, do you have initial advice for
me as to what he should do to recover the lost pictures?

The best scenario would be if he actually succeeded in copying to the
external drive, but forgot or didn't know where on the drive he put
them.

For SD cards, as well as hard drives, there are programs like Recuva
that can undelete files that were inadvertently deleted. One would
remove the card and put in a card reader on the PC.

If the pictures were in internal storage, I have no idea if any such
apps exist for Android, but if his tablet has a version of Android
before KitKat he can probably mount the tablet's storage as a drive on
the PC (with a USB cable) and scan its internal storage with Recuva.

One should not write to the storage device where the pictures used to be
before attempting recovery, since data can get written to where the data
still resides, thus destroying some of it.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:36:15 -0500, Bob I wrote:

On 10/31/2014 6:04 PM, Jonathan Williams wrote:
A friend just left me a message that he copied pictures from his Samsung
tablet to an external hard drive, and then, he *thought* he deleted the
pictures off the Samsung tablet, but now they're nowhere to be found.

I'll get more information from him, but, do you have initial advice for
me as to what he should do to recover the lost pictures?


Look in Recycle-Bin

On an Android tablet?

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Bob I wrote, on Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:36:15 -0500:

Look in Recycle-Bin

Where is the Android recycle bin?

Gene E. Bloch wrote, on Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:40:42 -0700:


The best scenario would be if he actually succeeded in copying to the
external drive, but forgot or didn't know where on the drive he put
them.

He said they were "there", but, after disconnecting, and later
reconnecting, they were gone.

Meanwhile, he had deleted them from the Samsung Galaxy tablet.

What I told him, so far, based on what was suggested, was to plug the
500GB Toshiba drive into Windows and use Recuva to recover it.

I would like to tell him how to make a bit-by-bit backup first onto
another drive, but I don't know how.

What he wants to recover are 2,000 photos of his scuba vacations.

For Android, I'm clueless what he can use, as it does not have an SD
card, so, it's somewhere there on the tablet, but what is the Android
recovery method?

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

Bob I wrote:

Jonathan Williams wrote:

A friend just left me a message that he copied pictures from his Samsung
tablet to an external hard drive, and then, he *thought* he deleted the
pictures off the Samsung tablet, but now they're nowhere to be found.

Look in Recycle-Bin

On an Android tablet?

Did the OP say "Android"? Then why would be be asking in a Windows 7
newsgroup? The OP posted to two disjoint newsgroups so he deliberately
obfuscated what OS is on the tablet.

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/tablet-pcs

That lists Windows as the OS. So you're claiming Samsung does not
produce tablets that use Windows?

Jonathan Williams wrote:
Gene E. Bloch wrote, on Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:40:42 -0700:


The best scenario would be if he actually succeeded in copying to the
external drive, but forgot or didn't know where on the drive he put
them.

He said they were "there", but, after disconnecting, and later
reconnecting, they were gone.

Meanwhile, he had deleted them from the Samsung Galaxy tablet.

What I told him, so far, based on what was suggested, was to plug the
500GB Toshiba drive into Windows and use Recuva to recover it.

I would like to tell him how to make a bit-by-bit backup first onto
another drive, but I don't know how.

What he wants to recover are 2,000 photos of his scuba vacations.

For Android, I'm clueless what he can use, as it does not have an SD
card, so, it's somewhere there on the tablet, but what is the Android
recovery method?

Try "Android forensic" in a search engine.

http://blog.avast.com/2014/07/09/and...d-erased-data/

That article gives an example of roaming around inside one of those things.

I'd want to "dd" out the data partition, first chance I got. Make a copy of
the resulting file. Fire up a Linux LiveCD and start to work on the
EXT4 partition in there. You want to do this, before the partition accumulates
writes over top of any deleted data.

Once you have a copy of the partition, return to the search engine
and look for "undelete ext4".

http://askubuntu.com/questions/21760...-files-on-ext4

Maybe the reason they make these things so hard to work with,
is to coax you to "put the contents in the Cloud". So all can
profit. Everybody and his dog gets to look at your vacation snaps.

Paul

See inline below...

On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 00:03:19 +0000 (UTC), Jonathan Williams wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote, on Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:40:42 -0700:

The best scenario would be if he actually succeeded in copying to the
external drive, but forgot or didn't know where on the drive he put
them.

He said they were "there", but, after disconnecting, and later
reconnecting, they were gone.

Most likely, they are there and he just doesn't know where. He just
didn't note which directory was displayed after the copy. Or else he
actually *moved* instead of copying the files.

He could search his whole external drive for .jpg files, if that's what
they are or were.

Meanwhile, he had deleted them from the Samsung Galaxy tablet.

What I told him, so far, based on what was suggested, was to plug the
500GB Toshiba drive into Windows and use Recuva to recover it.

I would like to tell him how to make a bit-by-bit backup first onto
another drive, but I don't know how.

download a free program (or free version) such as EaseUS Backup or
Macrium Reflect and use it to back up his external drive to another
external drive.

What he wants to recover are 2,000 photos of his scuba vacations.

For Android, I'm clueless what he can use, as it does not have an SD
card, so, it's somewhere there on the tablet, but what is the Android
recovery method?

I don't know either, so I'd say Google or search on the Android store
(called Google Play these days) - and pray.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 10/31/2014 6:41 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:36:15 -0500, Bob I wrote:

On 10/31/2014 6:04 PM, Jonathan Williams wrote:
A friend just left me a message that he copied pictures from his Samsung
tablet to an external hard drive, and then, he *thought* he deleted the
pictures off the Samsung tablet, but now they're nowhere to be found.

I'll get more information from him, but, do you have initial advice for
me as to what he should do to recover the lost pictures?


Look in Recycle-Bin

On an Android tablet?


This is Windows7 group, if he isn't running Win 7 on the tablet why
would he come here for an answer?

On 10/31/2014 6:42 PM, Jonathan Williams wrote:
Bob I wrote, on Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:36:15 -0500:

Look in Recycle-Bin

Where is the Android recycle bin?

On the Windows 7 desktop.

Bob I wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:22:03 -0500:

This is Windows7 group, if he isn't running Win 7 on the tablet why
would he come here for an answer?

The problem involved *both* Windows & Android simultaneously.
So, the solution, by necessity, involves both (whichever works to recover
the pictures).

On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:23:30 -0500, Bob I wrote:

On 10/31/2014 6:42 PM, Jonathan Williams wrote:
Bob I wrote, on Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:36:15 -0500:

Look in Recycle-Bin

Where is the Android recycle bin?

On the Windows 7 desktop.


Hardly.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 11/01/2014 03:22 PM, Bob I wrote:
On 10/31/2014 6:41 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:36:15 -0500, Bob I wrote:

On 10/31/2014 6:04 PM, Jonathan Williams wrote:
A friend just left me a message that he copied pictures from his Samsung
tablet to an external hard drive, and then, he *thought* he deleted the
pictures off the Samsung tablet, but now they're nowhere to be found.

I'll get more information from him, but, do you have initial advice for
me as to what he should do to recover the lost pictures?

IT's probably too late, but at the very least he shouldn't write
ANYTHING on the external drive until he either recovers the pictures or
proves they've been destroyed.

Look in Recycle-Bin

On an Android tablet?

This is Windows7 group, if he isn't running Win 7 on the tablet why
would he come here for an answer?

He's probably running Android on his tablet and windows on his computer
and Jonathan is in total panic mode for his friend. Help, don't complain.

I like the linux live CD idea. Knoppix is the original one, I think.
Start it without installing it. Not certain if the external drive is
automounted or not, but typing

locate one of the missing file names (without the brackets, of course)

into an xterm and see what happens. I can't remember the proper syntax
for 'find', but I think it's different. If he knows an actual filename,
perhaps he'll get lucky with windows' 'find' utility.

Losing all those photos is sickening. I hope he finds them.

I don't delete photos from my camera's sdcard until I've copied them to
the temporary subdirectory and thence to my "originals" subdirectory.
After I edit them, I save the edited photos in my 'good' subdirectory
and to the appropriate picasa album (free, since my edited photos are
1600 pixels max). Only then do I feel safe deleting them from the card
in the camera.

FWIW, I like changing the filenames to the exif date --
10140331-182334,jpg. There's a windows/linux utility called jhead that
does a fine job of this. You can also change the file date of the
edited files back to the original exif date provided your photo editor
retains it. Picasa does, if you tell it to; xv doesn't.

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Cheers, Bev
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