how can i recover my lost.dir folder! ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

murdamo305 · Feb 3, 2011

Bro.

I need these pictures bak. I have no idea how I lost alllll my files in my camera.

The folder had them all. Over 600 files (that's why I need them!!!!!)

But when I go to change the extension, it doesn't show the picture!!!

What can I do?

MWBehr · Feb 3, 2011

murdamo305 said:
Bro.

I need these pictures bak. I have no idea how I lost alllll my files in my camera.

The folder had them all. Over 600 files (that's why I need them!!!!!)

But when I go to change the extension, it doesn't show the picture!!!

What can I do?

Let's start with what exactly you did that resulted in you losing the pictures in the first place.

Binary100100 · Feb 3, 2011

do you see a bunch of items in the lost.dir directory?

If so, then try opening some of the smaller ones with an image editing program. You never know... it might still open them. If that's the case then all you need to do is rename them with the proper extensions. Worth a try.

aleph23 · Feb 3, 2011

I lost over 600 image files myself for no apparent reason.

A google search quickly told me this was a "known android issue", but no effing idea why...

For me it want just camera images but ALL images on the sd card.

Sent from my SPH-D700

masterotaku · Feb 3, 2011

This is why flashing experimental/custom roms is often a process that will teach you to back up your stuff. Sometimes this lesson is learned the hard way....

You can try to mount the partition in Windows or MacOS and throw file recovery software at it, Recuva being one of the better free ones for Windows. Best of luck

geoffcorey · Feb 3, 2011

lost.dir is a filesystem folder, (kinda like if you realy explore and ntfs drive, you'll find a SystemVolume folder, and a few other ones).

Your pictures aren't in the lost.dir folder. And you're probably one of the ones who had their internal SD wiped while using the dead horse kernel. Sorry to say, but there's no way to get them back.

murdamo305 · Feb 3, 2011

masterotaku said:
This is why flashing experimental/custom roms is often a process that will teach you to back up your stuff. Sometimes this lesson is learned the hard way....

You can try to mount the partition in Windows or MacOS and throw file recovery software at it, Recuva being one of the better free ones for Windows. Best of luck

That's why I remove my sd card everytome. I have no idea what happen.

Ima try that app

geoffcorey · Feb 3, 2011

you can't remove your internal sd card

epakrat75 · Feb 3, 2011

geoffcorey said:
you can't remove your internal sd card

@murdamo305:

Exactly. So as another use has already suggested...BACKUP! Both Titanium and MyBackup are available freely from the Market. Android bug or not with a working backup handy you don't lose anything.

geoffcorey · Feb 3, 2011

Here's your situation:

You = lost information, want it back.

Problem = the way sdcards store info + the filesystem = pretty much impossible to recover usable info from your sdcard (specially since it has been written to again, no matter what you think). Sorry to say, but you're SOL.

geoffcorey · Feb 3, 2011

lost.dir is a filesystem maintenance folder, pretty much exclusively for OSX use. It's not a "trashcan" or anything like that. It's not user accessible.

Besides, that kernel doesn't have code in it that says "move everything to lost.dir". It's got a bug in it that essentially runs a remove recursively and forced on the /sdcard/ directory.

roadrash7 · Feb 3, 2011

Do a "check disk". It worked for me when i corrupted my memory card.

Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App

murdamo305 · Feb 4, 2011

roadrash7 said:
Do a "check disk". It worked for me when i corrupted my memory card.

Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App

What's that?

Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

murdamo305 · Feb 4, 2011

This???
http://m.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-recover-data-from-a-corrupt-memory-card-or-usb-drive/

Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

mmelo76 · Feb 4, 2011

Cleaned thread!

Please, don't profanity post.

drcrappants · Feb 4, 2011

geoffcorey said:
lost.dir is a filesystem folder, (kinda like if you realy explore and ntfs drive, you'll find a SystemVolume folder, and a few other ones).

Your pictures aren't in the lost.dir folder. And you're probably one of the ones who had their internal SD wiped while using the dead horse kernel. Sorry to say, but there's no way to get them back.

can we delete it? there's nothing in it at all for me

geoffcorey · Feb 4, 2011

you can delete it, but the android system will create it again.

hubsabubs · May 2, 2013

I dont appreciate some of your assumptions

Just to automatically assume someone has their phone rooted and or flashed right off the rip is stupid. My fiancée just came to me telling me all her music on her SD Card was gone. Windows says the memory is still occupied however I found all the music files renamed to digit only filenames with no file extensions in the Lost.Dir. I renamed one to Test.Mp3 and opened it. Kabam it played a 3 and a half minute song. So to tell someone that welp your files are gone sorry nothing you can do this is what you get for doing something that they might not even have done in the first place. Her phone is stock no mods, no roms no tweaks. It is a rare occurance that happens in the Android OS. Not a direct result of what someone might have been doing.

david_g82 · Jul 3, 2013

hubsabubs said:
Just to automatically assume someone has their phone rooted and or flashed right off the rip is stupid. My fiancée just came to me telling me all her music on her SD Card was gone. Windows says the memory is still occupied however I found all the music files renamed to digit only filenames with no file extensions in the Lost.Dir. I renamed one to Test.Mp3 and opened it. Kabam it played a 3 and a half minute song. So to tell someone that welp your files are gone sorry nothing you can do this is what you get for doing something that they might not even have done in the first place. Her phone is stock no mods, no roms no tweaks. It is a rare occurance that happens in the Android OS. Not a direct result of what someone might have been doing.

100% agree with you, i also suddenly lost my pictures from my ext sd card, i founded the lost.dir with the files i just rename with the JPG extension and the pictures come back to life.

For everyone that append the same, don't lost your hope, you DON'T loose your files rename with the correct extension and you'll recover the lost file.

Droidman4.4 · Feb 27, 2014

help

After I used sdformatter to do a full overwrite of my internal sdcard my android tablet mounts it but no longer shows the internal sdcard please help

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