Any idea if your photos were on a removable memory card vs. built-in memory?
If the DCIM folder was on a removable SD card I’d suggest pulling the card before you do anything else and running PhotoRec against it (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) using another machine. I’ve used PhotoRec in the past and it’s phenomenal. You point it at a drive and it walks through the raw data left on the disk looking for patterns it recognizes (photos, music, bitcoin wallets, etc) and restores those files to another disk. You’ll have lost the meta-data for the files but, fortunately, because they are photos you can scrape a lot of that out of the EXIF data with tools like jhead (http://freecode.com/projects/jhead). Hope this helps, Jeff On Oct 9, 2014, at 8:12 PM, caziz <ca...@cuug.ab.ca> wrote: > Hi All, > > In the throes of a random brain fart, I deleted the DCIM directory > instead of copying it on my Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.1 > > I believe it is still possible to recover the files but as a first step > need to "root" the phone. > > With my recent string of bad luck, I am quite nervous and would > greatly appreciate if someone with specific knowledge of this situation > would kindly walk me thru the recovery. > > Thanks, > Chris Aziz > (cell) 403-547-1413 > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
