Gah! Lost my Photos

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Just got back from a trip away with the missus, during which I took a good few photos on the iPhone.

Once I had uploaded them to the PC, I duly deleted them off the iPhone. Unfortunately I failed to realise that a heap of them hadnt transferred successfully!

What a pain in the hoop!

 

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Done this on my BB before but luckly I could use GetDataBack on my BB to recover them

 

There doesnt appear to be a similar option for the iPhone unfortunately. For some stupid reason, the backup doesnt actually back up the camera roll.

 

Tried it unfortunately. Apple havent set it up to appear as a disk drive. I have an app that makes it appear like one, but it didnt work, so its obviously not appearing in the same way.

 

Have your tried this

Unplug the iPhone
close iTunes
Kill iTunesHelper.exe
plug in the iPhone


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I should have read all your post instead of just half of it

 

If I plug in the iphone to a machine with no iTunes it shows up the photos folder just fine.

 

As long as you kill the iTunesHelper.exe it should show fine

 

The photos folder shows up as a device in Windows (7 by the way), but not as a drive. So you can navigate to the photos from there (which is how I got to the photos for transferring in the first place - and you dont need to kill the iTunes helper process to do that).

The issue, is that because it doesnt show as a drive, the apps that will scan for deleted data and recover can't see it. Hence cant retrieve off it.

 

Yeah but if you kill the helper it will show as a drive ;)

 

negative. Tried it - didnt work. Tried it on an XP VM with no iTunes installed, didnt work.

 

Strange, works fine over here

 

also not doing it on the PC here at work (also no iTunes). Are you trying with an iPhone (4)?

 

You mean phonedisk? I tried that last night. For some reason, although it shows up as a disk, the deleted image recovery tool doesnt pick anything up when I run a scan on the mounted drive.

 

its a pain in the hoop situation to be honest. However, I did get about 30 odd pictures from my transfer that are keepers, and we took a lot more on the Digital Camera, so its not a total loss.

 

It was an iPhone 4 although jailbroken for FT over 3G maybe thats why it worked, my mistake