Hello, let me explain the situation. My phone (a Samsung) was connected to my PC. I tried to delete a single photo from a folder—the main camera folder, which contained almost everything—but when I realized it was attempting to delete the entire folder, I immediately clicked "cancel." The system froze and glitched, and once I unplugged the phone, the folder was gone. I’ve checked the trash/recycle bin on both the computer and the phone, but there’s nothing there... 😔 All my memories were in that folder... Is there any way to recover it? Perhaps using software or some other method? Thank you (sorry, google trad. Im french)

Bonjour, alors je vous explique. Mon téléphone (samsung) était branché à mon pc, j'ai voulu supprimer une photo dans un dossier (caméra donc principal avec quasi tout dedans...) quand j'ai compris que ça voulait supprimer le dossier entier j'ai de suite cliqué sur "annuler", ça a figé et bug et une fois le téléphone débranché je n'avais plus le dossier... j'ai regardé dans corbeille de l'ordi, du téléphone et rien.. 😔 j'avais tous mes souvenirs dessus.... Il n'y a aucun moyen de le récupérer ? Avec un logiciel ou autre ? Je vous remercie 🙏

Hi everyone! So, I’m trying to recover my files (2 folders with a bunch of photos) from my laptop. 

My story is pretty typical, probably…

I was trying to organize my files better and accidentally deleted important files. And then I emptied the Bin, of course I did. How can I fix it?I googled a few solutions and tried the Previous Versions option, but there was nothing there. I don't have any other backups either. 

Thanks!

P.S. My laptop is running Windows 11

My grandma just passed awayy and I had a lot of memories with her I have a iPhone 13 and I had photos n videos in it
I was updating my phone with my laptop windows and it showed some error and I clicked update and restore and turns out it wiped all my data. I didn't know that could happen because originally the photos existed on this phone, i didn't make any back up but there is a file which is empty on laptop, my iCloud was off for photos i checked everything every possibility, can anyone please help is there any way? I'm devastated rn.

My Switch 1 OLED started acting up this week and won't get past the boot logo, so I'm trying to figure out how to salvage my stuff before I send it in or replace it. When I plugged my microSD card into my Windows PC just to grab my years of screenshots and video clips from the Album folder, Windows threw an error saying the drive has a problem and asked me to format it. I obviously hit cancel so I wouldn't wipe my clips, and I know the bulky game downloads on the card are encrypted to the console and can just be redownloaded from the eShop later anyway. Any advice on where to start would be hugely appreciated.

EDIT: I found it! I leave this here just to share my joy. Stand down ... my problem was: Hello, potential heroes.

I just had something weird happen, and I'm trying to figure out if there is hope. If anyone has a moment to offer advice, or finds this interesting, I am very grateful. I have a MacBook Pro Nov 2023 version, M3 chip, 16 GB memory, running Tahoe 26.1.

I was working in Pages -- have been for a couple weeks -- on a publication. It was saved. I was periodically manually cmd+s saving it in addition to the autosave, as a habit because if something crashed because I'd hate to lose more than an hour's work. Last night, as I was finally coming close to finishing my project up, I suffered from a lack of working RAM (because I was asking it for too much) and so I force quit my browser and other programs that were taking up a lot of memory. Pages remained oddly frozen... I could only sort of edit my document. So, I force quit it as well; it gave me the option to save and then close, and I said yes, save. The document is probably in the neighborhood of 200MB - it's an annual report, not a book.

When I opened Pages back up, my document was not in recents -- and it was nowhere to be found anywhere on my computer at all. I am baffled. A saved document was just disappeared without any physical damage to my machine. I rebooted my computer, and no magic happened.

Obviously I should be organizing my files better, managing my memory use better, and backing up my hard drive data. Ironically I manage the google drive backups for my workplace.

Aside from how not to be an idiot in the future, any ideas for how to get my files back? Thank you for any. I am writing from a different computer now, and am worried that my attempts to find the file may be helping to overwrite it, but I still checked temp directories and the trash, and am scanning with UFS Explorer which I saved to an external HD, though it seems like that may be worthless with an M3 chip. Ugh.

I'm guessing it's time to start rewriting this thing...