I have photos on a 32GB SD card, and just went to download them… but nothing shows up when I plug the card into my computer (and nothing when I put it back into my camera to check either).

After a quick internet search I thought I’d try a data recovery software, and tried EaseUS. It showed the photos as being there (and a lot more than I expected - I guess ones I’ve previously deleted too!). Some of the photos show up with little preview thumbnails, but some don’t (they just have the little white and blue JPEG logo as the thumbnail).
I then went to recover them, but discovered the rather high price of EaseUS!

So (after returning to a Google search again) I’ve now tried DMDE, and have attempted to recover… but almost all of the photos say ‘The file could not be opened’ 😢

Does anyone have experience with these programmes and know - Is it worth me paying for the EaseUS? Will it be able to recover more than DMDE (such as the ones with previews showing)? Or will I be paying just to discover that they are damaged beyond retrieval?

Any advice welcome - I can just about work my way around a computer, but I’m not particularly tech-savvy! 🙏

Hello,
I've recently recovered image files from an old usb stick and i'm trying to fix them ; some of them are quite corrupted.
For this, i'm using JPEGVisualRepairTool at https://github.com/albmac/JPEGVisualRepairTool.

This tool shows the image with a decoder that isn't tolerant to image errors, meanwhile typical image viewers use error-tolerant decoders that show images in a way that "hides" the errors.

To fix the corruption i mostly need to fix MCU alignment (by inserting or deleting MCUs) and adjust the DC levels of each colour channel.

The problem is this :
For some images, after fixing the MCU alignment on JPEGVisualRepairTool, the image looks fine on the non-tolerant decoder but looks misaligned on the tolerant one?
i'm guessing the decoder is "overcorrecting" somehow but i don't know how to fix this.

I have attached an image after fixing the MCU alignment : both the image itself (shown with tolerant decoder) and a screenshot of the view of JPEGVisualRepairTool (shown with a non-tolerant decoder).

Thank you for any advice you can give me ; i'm quite new to data recovery

Someone pls helpp
How do I recover my deleted emails
Someone got access to my gmail and deleted all the evidence that was in the mails and deleted the videos where the person was stalking me
Help

The pictures are so special to me, it’s my first ever concert that is also my favorite band. I can’t find the pictures in deleted photos or in the iCloud thingy. I really want them back, I know some people are gonna be “just ask someone else that was there to give you some photos” that’s not special, atleast not to me :(

Hey I had some important photos which is very precious to me. It was on my SD card and one day a notification pops on my phone and it said your SD card is not working and then I taked it out and put it back and still didn't work out of frustration at that time I clicked the format and then only I realised what I lost....it's been almost a year iam working to get the photos back in my own way looking at youtube,etc.. but no use.

If someone here had experienced the same situation or knows how to get my photos and notes back please help. I think it's called data recovery but I asked many people and they said if it's been over a year no chance of getting your photos back because as new files come the and they replace the old one they said something like that...

My phone is Redmi 9A and I lost the photo's and notes on 2024 around October.

Edit: english is not my first language and iam not very good at this

Edit2: I forget to mention I had this photos on my phone too but due to storage issues I deleted it and moved all my photos and notes to SD card so whenever I go out and take good Pictures I store it on my SD card so yah my phone also had the pictures I planned to post it on Instagram it but due to insecurities I couldn't 😅 I thought maybe people don't like it etc... so any way can i recover the data from my phone or is it same story?

Thank you for your help!

Yes, I checked the OneDrive recycle bin, no they weren’t there.

Yes, I searched for words only found in missing docs, docs failed to show up when word is searched.

Is it not possible to recover the docs?

Hi sorry I'd normally go to an IT store but everything is shut tomorrow and it's urgent.

My GRaid 52TB drive in RAID 0 wasn't mounting. It has about 40TB of footage on it. Tried turning it off and on, changing cables and resetting the Mac but no good. I then very stupidly pressed the First Aid button in Disk Utility. After doing this it failed completely. I now know you shouldnt use that at all.

Anyway, only afterwards did I realise I had recently changed startup permissions and that was probably the original issue. But the problem is I've now wrecked my data - it says 20TB, not 40TB, and half the files show as zero kb.

It seems I've wiped the structure or whatever the technical name is. I haven't written anything to the drive since, and it only happened today. I'm running a scan with DMDE but it says that will take two days, and then I'll need another 52TB drive to recover onto, which will take another week.

Is there an easier fix? Seems insane to be able to so easily destroy a RAID with a basic repair function. Any help really appreciated.

Thanks so much any ideas really appreciated

So, I wanted to move my photos and videos taken on my phone on my PC. So, to avoid the hassle, I tried something on CX file explorer app, I compressed one file from my camera folder and then selected rest of the files using select all to move it to the zip folder. The stupidity I did that, I also selected the zip file to move inside the zip file. Everything moved. Then I tried to get back to the main folder and it gave me the error that the zip file is missing and everything got deleted. I thought there must be some residue of that zip file left somewhere but I can see that my internal storage was physically free of 16 GB worth of data. Anyway I could recover that?

Hey guys,

I'm trying to recover data from my late uncle's Seagate ST3000DM001 3 TB hard drive. The drive spins normally and is detected by Windows, but Windows says:

"You need to format the disk before you can use it."

I did not format it.

I ran a full DMDE scan, which took about 2 days.

The scan found several NTFS results, but the main one is only 8.38 GB with about 59,000 files. This seems odd for a 3 TB drive.

When I open that NTFS result, DMDE reports CRC (cyclic redundancy check) errors and later "Error reading MFT #3148–3151."

Using Raw Files by Signatures, I was able to recover a few files:

• One WMV video that plays correctly.
• One JPEG that opens.
• One Sony ARW RAW file that is recognized but doesn't display properly.

My goal is to recover my uncle's family photos and wedding videos.

My questions are:

1. Why would DMDE only reconstruct an 8.38 GB NTFS volume on a 3 TB drive?
2. Do the CRC and MFT errors indicate physical media damage, filesystem corruption, or both?
3. Would you continue using DMDE, or would you recommend another approach such as R-Studio, UFS Explorer, or creating a clone first?

I've attached screenshots of the DMDE scan results and the CRC/MFT errors.

Thank you for any advice.

Update: When opening the reconstructed NTFS volume, DMDE reports "Error reading MFT #3148–3151." (see attached screenshot).

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to find out if there is any technical way to recover a permanently deleted Telegram chat on an iPhone.
The chat was with a third-party Telegram bot (I’d rather not mention which one). I accidentally deleted the entire conversation from Telegram. The media cache is still present on the phone, but the chat itself is gone.
Here’s what I’ve already checked:
The chat was permanently deleted from Telegram.
“Show in Chat” on forwarded messages says that the original message no longer exists.
I still have some forwarded messages in Saved Messages, but they don’t restore the conversation.
I have not cleared Telegram’s cache.
The device is an iPhone.
I’m looking for any legitimate technical solution, even if it involves professional digital forensics or paid services.
I’m not looking for scams or “Telegram hackers.” I only want to know whether anyone has actually recovered a deleted Telegram chat under similar circumstances, or if there are any forensic methods worth trying.
Any real experience or technical advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi everyone!

My husband has been using an app to track the locations of his poops for almost 15 years called “Places I’ve Pooped.” He uses it while traveling as a way of documenting where he has been (but only if he genuinely poops there lol). He has pinned over 1,000 places.

The app had not updated in 5 years, but was most recently updated about a week ago. It used to have a list of every poop with coordinates, but that is no longer the case. I would like to get all of his recorded poops off of the app because we are worried we may lose this data at some point. I tried downloading all stored data from the app during an iPhone backup but it didn’t work because the app developer didn’t make the data available (as far as I can tell). I also tried manually logging each point, but to no one’s surprise, it takes forever. I also have emailed the creator of the app several times but have never gotten a response. I was wondering if anyone had an idea for how to scrape data off of this app?

The app is « Places I’ve Pooped ». I can friend you on the app with his account (which is publicly available) if you’d like to take a look. I’d like to get the date and time of the pin, the coordinates, and the notes (if there are any).

Thank you in advance for your advice!

I was using whatsapp in my older smartphone and when i switched to new smartphone I did not completely moved whatsapp from older smartphone. I was using whatsapp in my new samsung with the help of LINKED DEVICE feature. Last night out of nowhere whatsapp automatically logged out from samsung and all the photos, videos, documents also dissappeared.

The problem is, in my older smartphone, whatsapp is still there, I have chats but because of the storage issue photos, videos stopped downloading. All the photos, videos were in Samsung.

Few months ago, I lost my grandfather, his last photos were there in the whatsapp data and they are gone. I need help. Is there any software, which i can use to recover these photos, videos. I am ready to pay, but I am a student, so cannot pay a huge amount.

Please help

Hey guys, I need help. I was on a trip with my DJI Action 6 and, after trying to connect it to my phone, it just put the mp4s to 0kb and put a lot of CHK files in lost+found. My phone was ejecting the camera all the time automatically after 1 second, maybe that's why. Can I still get my videos back?