Recovering files in the LOST.DIR

[DiscoDes]

GRRRRRRrrrrrrrr...........................

I moved a load of Pictures taken of my Grandson on his first Xmas plus other photos, films taken with the phone and Music files out of the internal storage on my HTC One M8 to the external SD card and they've all disappeared into the LOST.DIR

OK, I'm pretty computer savvy i thought, it must be relatively easy to recover them I thought, WRONG

I tried renaming them and adding a file extension guessing which were .jpg's & .MP3 files but no success.
I downloaded a program recommended of of the Android Forums called TrIDNet and it does not work, it did not even identify any of the files.

I've tried a couple of the "free" professionally written software one called ILike Android Data Recovery Pro seems to work right, it identifies the files and you can see previews but wants $70 for the full version to actually recover the files.

I downloaded another one called Asoftech data Recovery where you connect your phone, but the phone needs to be rooted, mine is not.

Does anyone know of some good software that I can use to recover my files especially the one's of my little Grandson's first Christmas

TIA

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use "ES file browser" its free on android market you can browse and copy and paste items hope it helps

androidforums.com/threads/recover-photos-from-lost-dir-easiest-way.791533/

dont use recovery tool those may make it worse

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if this dont work look in in your android setting
for this page


click the ntp and connect to pc via usb and you can browse all of phones folders find directory and copy and paste to desktop

[Deleted]

hope this works for you DiscoDes

[DiscoDes]

@zuza Thank you for answering but this was the first thing i tried, it does not work.

I followed the thread on AndroidForums.com about renaming the files I have 3gb of music & pictures mainly with a few phone films thrown in for good measure and randomly picking a file and renaming it and changing the file extension just does not work.

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have you checked in google accounts setting if auto backup was enabled
or when last backup was done

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if that dont work i would join up onto forum.xda-developers.com
find section for the phone amsure someone will help very
good folks over there

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try the app dumpster

[dognero]

PM sent

[yahoo2u2]

did you get sorted?

[DiscoDes]

Jan 6, 2016 19:37:11 GMT @zuza said:

have you checked in google accounts setting if auto backup was enabled
or when last backup was done

Hi,

I don't have google sync turned on because I normally back up pictures to Google Pictures but for some reason it got turned off over christmas.

[DiscoDes]

Jan 6, 2016 21:36:34 GMT yahoo2u2 said:

did you get sorted?

Not yet,

dognero has sent me a solution and when I get a chance i'll try that to see how I get on.

[DiscoDes]

Jan 6, 2016 20:19:52 GMT dognero said:

PM sent

Thanks!

I was up at 4am yesterday so by the evening I was hanging so will try your solution soon and let you know.

[DiscoDes]

One last thing the files are NOT deleted just put into the lost.dir folder without any extensions.