Lost photos from Micro SD in Galaxy S3. Can We Get Them Back?

Continental_Op

So I know I should have made my parents pull out their SD card and back up all their photos and data before we went to Verizon and upgraded our phones and/or done regular back ups. This morning my Mom lost around 300 photos, most of her two grand kids, from her SD card for no apparent reason. I pulled the card, put it in my reader and it's empty. She still has a few photos, all the ones from messages and downloads, but everything else is gone. We are at my limit of knowledge on how to recover these things. My dad has taken it over to the Verizon store to see if they can run any kind of data recovery on it. My only other thought is Best Buy's Geek Squad. The only thing she has done with these photos is move a photo of me and one of my grandmother to use as our contact photos when we call her, this shouldn't have harmed any of the files.

Two Questions:
1. Is there any possibility we can recover these photos?
2. How do we do that? Where can we go?

Thank you for any help you can offer.

Gaslight

My Galaxy S III keeps just plain corrupting or failing to save photos to my SD card.

Essee

You could try running PhotoRec on the card, if you have a card reader of some sort (they're pretty cheap if you don't have one built into any of your computers). I used it to get back some of my mom's photos (she's a photographer) when one of her cards decided to flip out on her. It got back everything that she thought she'd lost.

One thing to note is... try NOT to put any extra stuff on the card if you can. It's possible to overwrite "deleted" data that way. Don't worry too much about anything you already put on it, just try not to add extra stuff onto it if you can.

DragonPup

To prevent this from happening in the future, download the Google Plus app and turn on the options to auto upload your photos and videos to a private Picassa album attached to their Google account. Makes photo backups seem less. You can also set it to do it only on wifi to save data.

Continental_Op

Thanks guys. I was able to get them all back using Data Recovery Free from the App Store and have backed them up in three places now. I also signed them both up for Google+. Just need to figure out how to get it to automatically set every photo to "Only Me" now...

mts

google + automatically uploads them but it doesn't automatically share them

Continental_Op

mts wrote: »

google + automatically uploads them but it doesn't automatically share them

Thanks!

Mods, this can be locked/closed now.

mts

the other option is to use the dropbox app, it has a similar thing and for a while each photo upload gave you more space depends on how you want to share if that is what you want