Retrieve video

[pippyo03]

Quick question. Is there any way possible to retrieve a video I accidently deleted? Its kinda important to. Is there a temporary place I can go or is it gone forever. please help

 

[mase123987]

I would say gone forever unless you put them on Skydrive.

 

[wpn00b]

I successfully recovered a file my HTC Incredible deleted from the SD card using an old program I had called Search and Recover by iolo. I don't know if its still available but maybe it's worth Bing'ing.

 

[bmaclean1]

The real problem (that MS should fix) is that the phone doesn't appear in the "hard drive" list of devices to be scanned when you use a recovery tool. I too need to recover some photos that I accidentally killed after vacation. I have downloaded 3 pieces of software (plus tried the free "recuva" that worked like a champ on my Android phone) with the same frustrating results. This issue was simple with my android phone.

Being forced to use SkyDrive is not a good solution. Battery life on my HTC8 is not good, and I don't want the phone constantly sending stuff to skydrive. And if it isn't constantly sending, then skydrive is not genuinely protecting against accidental deletions.

If anyone has suggestions, I am all ears.

Thanks,

Bill

 

[th0mas96]

The real problem (that MS should fix) is that the phone doesn't appear in the "hard drive" list of devices to be scanned when you use a recovery tool. I too need to recover some photos that I accidentally killed after vacation. I have downloaded 3 pieces of software (plus tried the free "recuva" that worked like a champ on my Android phone) with the same frustrating results. This issue was simple with my android phone.

Being forced to use SkyDrive is not a good solution. Battery life on my HTC8 is not good, and I don't want the phone constantly sending stuff to skydrive. And if it isn't constantly sending, then skydrive is not genuinely protecting against accidental deletions.

If anyone has suggestions, I am all ears.

Thanks,

Bill

That's not an issue, that's intended. A WP8 phone is no hard drive, it connects through the MTP protocol. It's up to the phone what files to show, and when you drag & drop a file, it doesn't directly get on the storage, the phone can interpret it.

 

[bmaclean1]

I only mentioned the hard drive list, because if the phone showed up on that, I could use a normal undelete program. I probably should not have focused on the specific implementation, but on the desired function.

I believe it to be completely unreasonable that I cannot recover accidentally deleted files from my phone. If there is a way to do this, I am definitely interested in the solution.


Thanks,

Bill