IPhone 5 Photo/video recovery
Hey, so I have an iPhone 5 which i took some photos and video with which very precious to me. I accidentally deleted a video in particular. Keeping in mind that the video was deleted before any backup was made of it. I understand that it is technically still on the hard drive as digital 1's and 0's, but rendered unreckognizeable and made available to other things as the space is needed. I need a way to access the files before they're overwritten. Are their specific programs that authorized apple employees use to get into the software like this? I have tried iExplorer and it only shows what is currently on the iphone as reckognizeable. I really need help with this fast! Thanks so much in advance!
Lorenzo
With only a few easy steps, you can extract your images, videos, songs, text messages, contacts, notes and so on. all your lost or deleted personal data by using iPhone data recovery software on a computer.
Step 1. Download the program and install it on the computer you synced your iOS devices before. Open the program to get started iPhone Data Recovery.
Step 2. Highlight a device by clicking it and then click "Start Scan" to extract the content on the backup file.
Step 3. Preview thumbnails of all found photos, files previously synced to iTunes from your iPhone, iPad and iPod.
Step 4. Click on "Recover"to fully restore your files.
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We had a baby and my phone filled up fast with pictures and videos, so I decided to offload them onto my PC. I connected my phone to the usb port, and directly copied from the DCIM folder to my hard drive.
Something happened during the first attempt, and the process was interrupted. So I went into each of the sub folders, and selected all files, and started the copy process again. I told the computer to skip any existing files.
So all the file counts matched in each folder, and I figured it was safe to start deleting from my iPhone.
On my hard drive, I separated all the MOV files into my Videos folder. But in Windows Explorer, the thumbnail view showed several MOV files with no thumbnail - just the generic icon.
As I sorted my photos into various folders, I also noticed a lot of generic icons instead of thumbnails for the JPGs. I started to feel concerned that my files had become corrupt during the transfer. But then I noticed a PNG file that was a few hundred megabytes. This was odd, so I added the MOV extension to it. Sure enough, it was a video with the wrong extension.
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Then I went to the video folder, and all the MOV files that had the generic icon were actually JPG files.
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Poof! One item remained, and it was one of the garbage photos. My video is GONE! ^#@*&#($^@Q&%( And no, I didn't fat-finger it. I was very careful to select the correct thumbnails.
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And no, I don't use iTunes. I stopped using iTunes years ago when it would randomly decide to delete contacts from my phone just because they didn't exist on my computer or some sh-- like that. I have always just manually synced all my stuff and have never had an issue like this. To say I am sad to lose that video is an understatement.
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