Comments on: How To: Recover Deleted Files in Linux Using Photorec

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:34:19 +0000

Will this work with ptp? I have a Galaxy Nexus (non removable sd card). Win 7 will not recognize my devise as a drive. Most forensic programs ive found need ums to work. Does anyone have a work around? I unlocked and rooted and lost all pics

By: PaT

PaT — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:42:23 +0000

I know it’s a bit old post, but thanks a lot. I was amazed how many files it was able to recover, almost everything i was working on from couple of months. And of course helped me to recover my .rtf file i accidentally deleted. Great work, and thanks a lot for your help.

By: Jan Mars

Jan Mars — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:06:35 +0000

It is a while ago, but i seem to remember that it was something with the camera. After i put the memory card in another camera, photorec worked fine. See the comment of Nicu (sept 4, 2009) above.

By: Sandcaster

Sandcaster — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:06:15 +0000

I am having a similar problem and was wondering if you found an answer to how to select an external drive.

By: James

James — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:47:14 +0000

Can’t you specify a certain folder to search rather than the whole drive? I only need to search my images folder

Cheers

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:37:49 +0000

Thanks for the howto it helped me a lot.

Rgds

Hans

By: steve

steve — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:02:34 +0000

i try with photorec to recover files from a formated disk and i try to use an external disk (connected by usb port) to save the files.i saw all the steps that are in the guide and the name of the disk is sdc but i can’t selected it in the final step where photorec need to know where the recovered files can be saved.does anyone have any idea about that or how i can run photorec with commands without steps??if someone know the solution please send me mail.thaks!

By: Nandakumar

Nandakumar — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:56:40 +0000

We have tried this in our server to restore deleted database folder. But unfortunately, we didnt got back the folder structure. What we got was list of files with some ordered name like file1, file2 … so on.. We cant identify the files, which it belongs to. Can you help us how to restore the files ?

By: Jim Wilkins

Jim Wilkins — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:56:25 +0000

After a trip to Greece, I had been trying to burn videos to DVD via dedicated burner (videocam and dedicated burner by Sony) The camera’s internal memory (full of previous recordings) had been archived once on DVD. When I tried to archive the memory stick which had the Greece trip, it said ‘all data had been previously backed up’ Whatever. I finally followed the instructions~verbatim to delete all from internal memory and, wouldn’t you know it, it deleted all of the memory stick instead! I thought I was sunk. PhotoRec did it’s majick and faithfully reproduced most, if not all, of the clips. And considering it is GPL and free, as in beer, I could not be happier. Thanks to all!!!

By: nicu

nicu — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:08:04 +0000

Does your camera work as USB mass storage or as a PTP device?

When I recovered files from my camera, I just got the memory card out and put it on a card reader, so it is surely accessed as mass storage and mounted properly (my camera is a Canon SLR, which is normally accessed with PTP).