I have most of my apps installed on an external SD card, linked via App2SD. I decided to let the app "clean up" the partition, thinking it would simply remove unused stuff like it had before. The stinking program promptly deleted everything that was on there! Help! How can I get it back? How can I recover everything, with files and folders intact?
@FailSafeNow
If the SD-card is ( default ) FAT32 formatted then probably there is a chance to recover the deleted files: There exist several Windows programs what claim to do this at 100%.
GIYF ...
jwoegerbauer said:
@FailSafeNow
If the SD-card is ( default ) FAT32 formatted then probably there is a chance to recover the deleted files: There exist several Windows programs what claim to do this at 100%.
GIYF ...
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True, but I don't have a PC I can use. I only have this tablet and Chromebook.
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Hello,
I have backed up my data with the Clockwordmod because I wanted to install a new Android version, because it hasn't booted anymore.
Now everything works fine, but when I recover my data backup, it hangs up again.
With unyaffs I extracted all content, and now I want to recover just specific .asec files, that means just for specific Apps I need the data of.
How is that possible? I can't find any solution!
Thank you,
casbar
All asec files reside on your SD card in the .android_secure directory.
Hans Schmucker said:
All asec files reside on your SD card in the .android_secure directory.
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When I replace those files with my versions and run the app, or reinstall that before, it doesn't work!
Please help me, I need those data.
casbar
Nobody an idea how to fix this problem?
casbar
Why do you want the asec files? From what I can tell, they seem to contain resources, not data. So reinstalling and moving to SD should get you to exactly the same point as reinstalling and re-using your old asec files. The data AFAIK remains in the /data/data directory, even if you move from SD.
(Take this with a grain of salt though, I havent't really looked into asec files yet)
Listen, I have reistalled my phone, deleted all data. before I done it, I backed up the datain the Clockwordmod Boot menu. Now I just want to reuse my old files (which are asec files).
I cannot migrate the whole backup, because then my phone doesn't boot aymore, so I have to just use the asec files of specific apps.
I dont know how !
Please help me
i have the same problem, but i want to restore the whole apk of flashplayer because i can't find that exact apk which worked fine on my huawei sonic
USE LINK2SD to get them decrypted.
Hi;
I just use Link2SD, MOVE to PHONE; even if it's on the phone. LINK2SD will decrypt and move them to the /data/* Directory
Cheers,
BuBu.
H-Data Recovery Master is not bad. I tried a lot of recovery tool, only H-Data Recover 95% of my lost files.Download and install H-Data Recovery Master(hdatarecovery.com).
So I got my 32 GB card today. I plugged in my phone copied my external sd stuff to a new folder, switched cards then copied the folder contents on to the new card. I also transferred some pictures from the internal memory to the new card. Now many of my apps claim to be not installed any more. I never did use anything like apps2sd or anything like that. I figured it would work for me to keep internal for apps and external for media.
Thoughts, ideas?
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So I got my 32 GB card today. I plugged in my phone copied my external sd stuff to a new folder, switched cards then copied the folder contents on to the new card. I also transferred some pictures from the internal memory to the new card. Now many of my apps claim to be not installed any more. I never did use anything like apps2sd or anything like that. I figured it would work for me to keep internal for apps and external for media.
Thoughts, ideas?
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let me guess, you copied the files and folders with windows explorer? if so then you missed the hidden folders that start with a dot (.) which holds the apps that are/were installed to sd..
If u still got the old card and havent formatted it yet you can still copy them, just enable "show hidden files" in windows explorer (google it) and copy them.
DruNKfuX said:
let me guess, you copied the files and folders with windows explorer? if so then you missed the hidden folders that start with a dot (.) which holds the apps that are/were installed to sd..
If u still got the old card and havent formatted it yet you can still copy them, just enable "show hidden files" in windows explorer (google it) and copy them.
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Mac OSX. Still don't remember installing any apps to sd, unless the apps themselves did it. I don't have any directories, etc that I copied or moved that pertains to the apps
DruNKfuX said:
let me guess, you copied the files and folders with windows explorer? if so then you missed the hidden folders that start with a dot (.) which holds the apps that are/were installed to sd..
If u still got the old card and havent formatted it yet you can still copy them, just enable "show hidden files" in windows explorer (google it) and copy them.
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So I put the old card back and the apps are working, so that is good news. Next step is I am creating a disk image from the old card (disk utility ftw) and I will use that to restore on to the new one, making it a carbon copy.
Hopefully this works
Slow process!
*ahem* Titanium Backup
If you're not rooted, get root.
jwl12345 said:
*ahem* Titanium Backup
If you're not rooted, get root.
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Now that I have everything working again, I'll be sure to do a backup before I break everything. Since it's been a couple weeks since I did one, I am relieved that I didn't have to restore
Hello all, could not find this problem in search, so.
I bought a 32gb to replace the 8gb I was using, and im having trouble moving the files from .android_secure to the new card.
i copied files in usb mode from the galaxy to my computer and then swapped the sd cards , then tried to copy stuff back. but it just aint working , windows shows everything copys over except the .android_secure dir that is. my device will not recieve the files. and some other stuff in just plain dir's are not found when using root explorer. WTF is going on here.
Can anybody please help.
Thank You
WarrantyVoided said:
Hello all, could not find this problem in search, so.
I bought a 32gb to replace the 8gb I was using, and im having trouble moving the files from .android_secure to the new card.
i copied files in usb mode from the galaxy to my computer and then swapped the sd cards , then tried to copy stuff back. but it just aint working , windows shows everything copys over except the .android_secure dir that is. my device will not recieve the files. and some other stuff in just plain dir's are not found when using root explorer. WTF is going on here.
Can anybody please help.
Thank You
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Have you tried doing all your copying on a PC? I mean, taking your 8GB to a PC... copying files to a temp folder. Putting the 32GB card into the PC and copying all your files to the new card. I have always done this and I had no issues with folders not copying properly.
WarrantyVoided said:
Hello all, could not find this problem in search, so.
I bought a 32gb to replace the 8gb I was using, and im having trouble moving the files from .android_secure to the new card.
i copied files in usb mode from the galaxy to my computer and then swapped the sd cards , then tried to copy stuff back. but it just aint working , windows shows everything copys over except the .android_secure dir that is. my device will not recieve the files. and some other stuff in just plain dir's are not found when using root explorer. WTF is going on here.
Can anybody please help.
Thank You
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Like the pserson above me said, have you tried on the PC? Also when you do copy it over on PC make sure that you have all administrative rights on your computer so it can go through.
I know this is a tad old, but A nandroid backup such as done by 4EXT Recovery or even ClockworkMod should backup the .android_secure folder/partition/etc (in 4EXT Recovery when you do a backup, it saves the boot, system, data, cache, sd-ext/sd-ext2 into a backup which can be then be copied over to a new card after you partition it how you want, then run the restore process).
Likewise you could probably tarball it via adb shell in order to transfer it across file systems that do not support linux permissions and ownership flags.
internal memory was full. was trying to shift DCIM folder using CUT-->PASTE (ES explorer App) from internal to external SD card, but used the skip paste option since external already had a dcim folder and i didnt want to overwrite it.
when i rechecked the internal memory the DCIM folder had disappeared from internal memory because of using "cut" instead of "copy"
how do i recover the lost DCIM folder?
You might be able to use a data recovery tool but more than likely it's gone forever mate.
Try using DiskDigger photo recovery... It's found on the Play Store.
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You might be able to use a data recovery tool but more than likely it's gone forever mate.
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files are still there since i havent over written the free space. problem is the directory structure has been deleted. i need a program to recreate the directory structure maybe.
chromeopx said:
Try using DiskDigger photo recovery... It's found on the Play Store.
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tried it. it didnt work. i need a program which recreates the folder structure .
There are so many programs i can use to recover files but they wont work because i cant mount the Internal Memory so that it shows up as a regular partition in windows. Just useless MTP mode. UMS mode needs to come back for the Internal memory.
psychem said:
There are so many programs i can use to recover files but they wont work because i cant mount the Internal Memory so that it shows up as a regular partition in windows. Just useless MTP mode. UMS mode needs to come back for the Internal memory.
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If you had access to linux and a data recovery tool for Linux you may have a chance. Windows cannot mount the internal storage since it uses either EXT4 or F2FS, both filesystems that Windows can't read.
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If you had access to linux and a data recovery tool for Linux you may have a chance. Windows cannot mount the internal storage since it uses either EXT4 or F2FS, both filesystems that Windows can't read.
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i have linux mint boot usb key but how will it help? MTP is a bottleneck at the phone end. MTP wont allow mounting internal memory even in linux.
Today i notice that i can't save anymore in my sdcard.i Check my sdcard using diskusage application,i saw that 20 GB of my sdcard space is taken by system data.
What this? And how can i delete this ??
Don't worry,i fix it.
I connect the sd card to my pc,and i saw one hidden folder which not showing in any file browser in my phone even if i enable the hidden folders ( strange)
The name of this folder is : Found.000 which have 19.8 GB in size.
I delete it and everything is back to normal again
did it happen again? the point is to find why does this happen and
I have the same issue when I delete large files or folders,
they are moved in system data,
I haven't found the culprit yet
It's windows "fault".
You can read more here https://www.howtogeek.com/282798/what-are-the-found000-folder-and-file0000chk-file-in-windows/
ok but why does Android move to system data instead of delete?
patrickdrd said:
did it happen again? the point is to find why does this happen and
I have the same issue when I delete large files or folders,
they are moved in system data,
I haven't found the culprit yet
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Have you solved anyway?
I have the same problem, no hidden folder found.
I had to backup my data on PC and then format it.
I formatted my card as exfat, it was the only way my files would delete immediately
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I formatted my card as exfat, it was the only way my files would delete immediately
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my card is formatted as exfat yet, what filesystem have you used before?
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my card is formatted as exfat yet, what filesystem have you used before?
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the one android uses (at least my nougat used that)
when you select format option from the settings menu,
i.e. fat32
same problem in internal memory
Hello, I have the same problem but in internal memory.
Any idea to solve in this case?
Many thanks