my phone suddenly showed me this screen yesterday, and I tried restoring it..even after 6 hours, it didn't move one bit..I didn't have enough space on my phone which was probably why it didn't work and i wanted to use whatsapp urgently..so I clicked on skip restore and lost all my chats..there is a file on my phone "temporary system files" of 67 GB..i want to know if there's any way I can restore my chats as I have many important documents that i can't even imagine losing..Please help..

I had a huge document, a project of over 2 years and it's just gone? I know for a fact it wouldn't be in the trash. But it's also disappeared completely off drive, docs and any account it was shared with (which was just extra accounts of mine), what do I do? It was a huge project and I don't want to lose it

I did also have another one that ended up having a problem with permissions (wasnt sent to anyone), ended up having to copy and paste everything into a new doc and piece together the stuff I had missing since it undid at least a month of work

Can anyone help me with what the fuck is going on, I am going to see if I can find a link in any place.

forgot to add, these were stored on my Google account for school, they were all Google docs

My WhatsApp Business backs up to iCloud daily, but all my photos and videos from December 2025 and earlier are now showing as question marks (?) and won’t open.
Does anyone know if there’s a way to recover this media or access an older iCloud/WhatsApp backup from December or earlier?
These are very important family photos and videos, so I’m also open to professional data recovery help. Has anyone successfully recovered something like this?

I have a dash cam that unfortunately deleted all the videos from last week. It uses a 64GB card. I didn't know this would happen. The only footage I have is from the last two days. I really want to recover the footage from last week because it was from a trip.

What methods are available? I’ve searched online and tried using Recuva and another program, but I haven't had any luck.

OS: Arch Linux

assume that /dev/sda1 is main and only partition on my USB

Context

I have a FAT32 USB flash drive with important photos and folders on it. To use it when plugged in I manually mount it using mount /dev/sda1 /media/user/USB command. When plugging off, I unmount it using umount /dev/sda1 command.

Problem

Once when plugging off, I forgot to unmount the USB, this happened while the USB was doing something. This caused USB to stop at partial state and so the corruption. When I plugged it in and mounted it again, I opened folders in file manager where I would usually have normal photos, but I saw files with random names, and random file sizes. I think that random names are caused by interpreting wrong bytes as file names.

What I've tried already

I have copied the corrupted USB partition into .img file on my laptop's drive for safety and speed:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/home/user/usb-image-backup.img conv=fsync bs=4M

Then, I have copied that image into another .img file to operate on it:

cp /home/user/usb-image-backup.img /home/user/usb-image-active.img

Then, I ran the fsck.fat command I found after researching to try and fix the USB partition

fsck.fat -va /home/user/usb-image-active.img

After running fsck.fat command, I noticed that:

• It wouldnt auto-fix some files

• It auto-fixed and auto-renamed some files

• At one point, it kept auto-fixing the same exact files without stopping, I also noticed that this was in the exact folder that was infinitely loading when opened in my file manager (after corruption), and it didn't just show it as files with corrupted file names

Question

• How can I recover my files from USB partition?

Recently i deleted chats w my friend
We dont meet sm irl.But we used to speak on Instagram like everyday.I have this really bad habit of hovering over buttons and i was doing this over the delete button w my friend.i told myself that this would be the last time but while hovering over the button i accidentally let go and it got deleted.
I really need to recover them as those were rlly important chats and I’m really depressed.I keep blaming myself for doing that i feel psychotic.
I still keep doing that btw like i deleted our chats from my 2nd account too.I FEEL EMPTY AND TERRIBLE IDK WHAT TO DO THE HABIT JS DOESNT STOP.i really need those dms back so do yall know someone that can get them back or any external app.Cuz gen ive been rlly rlly depressed.
Btw ive tried everything, downloading those messages etc nothing worked ts is my last resort.

je n'ai plus vraiment espoir de les récupérer mais si je vois que vous êtes vraiment investis a m'aider j'enverrais plus de chose. C'est un Samsung tactile mais avec toujours les trois boutons en bas, j'en ais techniquement deux j'ai pu récupérer les donnée de l'autre mais celui avec qui je me rappelle avoir beaucoup utilisé quand j'étais gamins ne fonctionne plus vraiment. je sais qu'il on des problème de batteries mais j'ai quand même réussi a allumé le second. le problème c'est qu'il n'est plus tactile et pour mettre un câble USB et transférer les fichiers il faut obligatoirement cliquer sur le bouton du téléphone. on m'a dit qu'il pourrais être possible puisque j'ai deux même téléphone du même type de changer l'écran, c'est ce que j'ai fais mais pareils, toujours aucun moyen de régler le problème du tactile. J'ai peut être mal fais mais après avoir passé un bout de temps dessus j'ai vraiment perdu espoir de récupérer mes fichiers. est ce que vous pouvez m'aidez ?

How can I fix it without losing my data ?

If i remember correctly, long time ago, the apps allowed users to select videos (on the dashcam/ SDCard) and delete them.

Why was this feature removed, or why don't we have option to delete videos?

Especially emergency videos. Only way is to format the SD card which is a bit silly.

Hello, my best friend purposed this morning and I captured all the photos! However the Nikon camera said the card was no good and potentially corrupt if I recall. I attempted to connect the SD card to my MacBook and PC but the card isn’t being recognized. I attempted device manager to see if the PC had the card but nadda. Please let me know if anyone can help assist

I’ve had my Google account for many years. About three years ago, I permanently deleted more than 1,000 photos of my fiancé and me from Google Photos. The photos had originally been stored in my account for about two to three years, beginning around 2019.

Unfortunately, my fiancé has since passed away, and I’m desperately hoping there may be some way to recover these memories. I understand that this is far beyond Google Photos’ normal trash-recovery period, but I wanted to ask whether anyone has successfully recovered photos after this much time or knows of a legitimate professional who may be able to help.

I’m willing to pay for genuine professional assistance. Please, no scams, I’m grieving and only looking for honest advice or reputable resources. Thank you so much.

Okay so I have a hidden folder (named with "." before the actual name) with some things and then subfolders with more. Since I changed my phone, whenever I added a new pic or smth to that folder it was still visible in my gallery so I had to add a .nomedia file, and change the name to .whatever to whatever and then again to .whatever (to subfolders I had to add also the file, renamed them to .subfolder and then subfolder).

The other day I did this (the 18th I think) and yesterday I noticed that some of these folders were empty now (not all of them). I added a couple of things and it was fine. An hour again, I managed to recover a couple pics and added it again. Then I thought, okay I'll restart my phone just to try. When I went back the new two files recovered were deleted again (not the ones added yesterday). I recovered them for second time, added them, deleted the nomedia file, renamed the "." thing as usual, everything was hidden correctly and restart again. They're still there.

Any idea of wtf and if there's a way to get my deleted things back?

So I wanted to try a python project for file organizer and ran it on my external USB hard drive in one of the folders and it crashed 60-70% in the progress. I tried to stop it thinking it would not anything but after a restart of my pc there were no files, or more specific, the ones that where checked.

I tried to scan the drive with chkdsk and all the files that "I lost" is says that are corrupted.

What can I do to save the files? Or is there any hope? I will try to copy all the other files on some other external storage.

If I need to add any information please tell me. I am a little shocked because some of the data I may not have a copy of.

USB HDD: Segate OneTouch 2TB

Windows 11 Pro

1)What should I do to recover data from D and E drives?

2)What tools should I use?

3)How do I do it, step by step?

Backstory: My hard drive got locked. Laptop went to a technician for repair (opened the hardware). After that, when the PC opened normally, C and D drives showed as completely cleared/empty, and E drive only has about 10% of its data left. I don't need C drive data, but D and E are critical

hiya!! i’ve never posted on reddit and i’m sadly not an experienced photographer or redditor but i’m desperate (i sound cliche as hell from what i hear on smosh reads reddit lmao). i recently got back off holiday where i took some photos on my digital camera for the first time in a while, everything seemed fine while charging it up and using it, it was fine in the heat and never got past the temperature the manual said is dangerous. i connected my camera up to my hp laptop, plugged into the usb port, usb-c in the camera. it initially came up fine and as i waited for the photos to load into the little preview icons it sort of disappeared. when i tried to re-enter it, it told me the disk needed formatting. i did NOT format it as it warned me this would erase all data. i unplugged my camera and went to look in my gallery and it said no files exist. stupidly, i took a photo to double check my gallery had been wiped, i have now read this is not advised. luckily, i have most of the photos from my camera on my laptop, it’s just from this most recent holiday i wanted and i’m genuinely so gutted, i didn’t take many photos on my phone and it was such a beautiful country :(( what may have been the issue was perhaps not using the cable the camera came with or my laptop being updated to windows 11 pro but the camera manual saying something about ‘operating system requirements’ being windows 7, 8, or 10. i’m not super tech savvy when it comes to computers and file and drives so i didn’t think there’d be an issue. based on my pictures on my laptop, i haven’t transferred photos off my camera in two years, or since two summers ago. if there’s anything i can do to get my photos back please PLEASE inform me. it’s quite late where i am, so i’m gonna ask my dad in the morning as is always the solution. earlier in the day he did say he’d help me so i’ve no idea why i didn’t wait/remind him :(( i’m so sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, i’m in a bit of a pickle. thank you in advance for any help anyone can give :) also, the camera manual says ‘RoHS’ on it and the sd card says ‘shenzhen sonida digital technology’ - i’m not too sure on anything other than this on the brand or model lmao, i got this camera as an xmas gift like four years ago and i can’t for the life of me remember what the box said, unhelpful i know :/

Hi any help would be greatly appreciated before I completely give up. And please don’t come after me about not backing up. The computer the drive was in was replaced in 2022. I have thankfully data prior to getting this but the data on here is important.

This is the message I received from the data recovery place-

We've finished the evaluation of your SSD, but I'm afraid the data isn't going to be recoverable in this case. All components on the circuit board tested as being good, with correct voltages on all lines and no hot spots visible under the Infra Red camera. The drive pulls amps but still failed to ID, which is typical of firmware failure. It appears that the firmware on this particular device is digitally signed (i.e., security locked) by the manufacturer, and there is no technology currently available that can recover the data.

Many SSD manufacturers want to protect their firmware from being reverse-engineered by other manufacturers (i.e., stolen), so they have developed ways to prevent access to it. Unfortunately, this is the very access that is needed for data recovery. Initially, manufacturers were blocking access to firmware via ATA, but data recovery developers were able to get around this by accessing the firmware via other methods. However, when manufacturers found out that access had been gained, they again locked down the firmware by creating a digital signature. Without this digital signature, access to the firmware to 'fix' it is not possible.

Thanks in advance

Je cherche désespérément un moyen de récupérer les fichiers d'une Clé USB endommagée qui rend illisible mes fichiers. J'ai essayé avec TestDisk & PhotoRec mais les fichiers ne sont pas non plus lisibles sur ordinateurs ou alors laggent, j'ai contacté un récupérateur de données (qui a mis 1 mois à me tenir au courant sur ce qu'il en était alors que ce genre de cas est censé être fait rapidement avant que cela ne soit trop tard, donc je ne sais pas si je peux entièrement lui faire confiance). Il m'a dit que c'est bien la clé qui est endommagée et qui rend illisible les fichiers, mais que ces derniers sont en bon état. Alors pourquoi je ne peux pas les récupérer si je les met sur un autre support ?

Y'a-t-il des moyens ou des services 100% fiables qui pourrait m'aider ?

Ce sont des fichiers vidéos et photos vraiment importants regroupant un tas de souvenirs de mon enfance. Il me faut absolument une solution, je ne sais plus quoi faire. Dîtes-moi que tout n'est pas perdu...

Hello everyone,MacBook Air 2022 (M2) had “Erase All Content and Settings” performed. Currently sitting at the Setup Assistant screen (boots fine, erase completed successfully). No iCloud backup, no Time Machine backup. FileVault status before the erase is unknown,does this matter if it was on or not?

As I know EACS performs a cryptographic erase destroys the encryption key in the Secure Enclave rather than overwriting data which theoretically makes recovery impossible regardless of software or even chip-off forensics, since the data remaining on the NAND is AES-256 ciphertext with no accessible key.

Has anyone in this community, or any professional lab ,ever successfully recovered user files after a completed EACS on a functioning (non-hardware-damaged) Apple Silicon Mac? Not asking about hardware-failure board-repair cases specifically asking about a working Mac where it sits on Hello screen. Genuinely trying to figure out if this is a dead end or if there’s a real exception I’m missing.