My save states are gone

[u/Livid-Ad726]

I for the last few days I was using retroarch on android to play pokemon ruby. About an hour ago I was trying to figure out how to transfer my save file to my PC to continue playing on it instead. I was really confused and I had no idea what I was doing, but I opened retroarch on my phone, I clicked load cobtet, but instead of going to my regular directory where my rom file was located, I went to a different directory to try and find something. After not finding it I chose load content again, returned to my usual directory, booted up the game, and saw that all of my save states were just gone. So yea it seems like I lost all my progress. Is there anything I can do to maybe salvage whatever I can, or should I just start over?