Thereare also plenty of developments happening in DiskDigger for Android. There have been improvements in recovering video files, not just photos. There are also continual improvements in its support for a wider range of Android devices (different manufacturers, different versions of Android, etc).
Additionally, DiskDigger will now display a warning when you select a drive that has the TRIM function enabled. This applies to most internal SSD drives, and impacts the chance of successful recovery of data. Please read the FAQ on this subject for more details.
Download DiskDigger today to recover the files you need from your hard disk, USB drives, memory cards, and more! And don't forget to use DiskDigger for Android to recover lost photos and other files on your Android device.
And if you need to recover files from your Android device, try the DiskDigger app from the Google Play Store! Stay tuned for updates to the app, which will make recovering data even simpler and more effective.
This short tutorial will show you how to use DiskDigger to recover accidentally deleted photos from a memory card. This can be an SD card from your camera, a microSD card from your phone or tablet, or most other types of removable cards found in today's devices.
Before you begin, make sure to remove the memory card from your device, and do not record any more photos onto it until the recovery process is complete. Any further changes you make to the memory card can decrease the chance of recovering the lost photos.
Remove the memory card and insert it into your computer's memory card slot. If your computer doesn't have a slot for the memory card, you can plug the card into a USB card reader, and plug the card reader into a USB port on your computer.
Some cameras or phones can be hooked up directly to your computer with a cable; however, this does not always make the contents of the card visible to DiskDigger. This is why it's recommended to take the memory card out and plug it directly into your computer.
Note: If the memory card does not appear in the list of drives to scan, make sure it's inserted properly and click the "Refresh list" button. If the card still does not appear in the list, try plugging it into a different USB port. And if it still does not appear in the list, it may indicate that the card has a physical error and may no longer be recoverable.
DiskDigger will let you choose between the "Dig Deep" and "Dig Deeper" modes. For the purpose of recovering photos, it's recommended to select Dig Deeper mode, since this is more likely to recover as many photos as possible.
DiskDigger will now start scanning the memory card. As it starts finding photos, you'll see them showing up in the list on the left. By clicking on one of the photos it found, you can see a preview of the file on the right. Also, you can switch the list to show thumbnails, so you can see previews of each photo as it's found. You can do all of this while the program continues to scan the card.
You can select which files you'd like to recover in the same way you would select multiple files in Windows Explorer: you can click and drag a selection around the files you want to save; you can also hold down the Ctrl key and click on individual files to include them in the selection. If you just want to select all the files, you can right-click within the list, and choose "Select All."
When the files are selected, click the "Recover Selected Files" button at the top. This will let you select the new location where the recovered files will be saved. In this example, I'll simply select the top-most "Desktop" folder on my computer.
When it finishes saving, it will automatically open the folder into which the files were saved. This folder will be called "Recovered," and will be inside the folder that you selected for saving the files. At this point, you can close DiskDigger since the recovery is complete!
Using DiskDigger for Android is very simple. After launching the app, it will display two options: "Basic scan" and "Full scan." The "full" scan functionality is available only on rooted devices, whereas the "basic" functionality is available regardless of whether your device is rooted.
If your device is rooted, the app should allow you to select the memory partition to scan. Your device's internal memory usually appears as "/data", and the device's SD card usually appears as "/mnt/sdcard" or something similar.
You may tap on any of the files to select its checkbox, which will select it for recovery. You may also tap on the overflow menu (three dots) on each of the files, to see recovery options for each individual file.
Pressing the "Options" button (gear icon) will allow you to filter the recoverable files based on file size, and file type. If you want to impose a minimum size on the files shown, press the checkbox next to "Minimum file size", and enter the minimum number of bytes below. By default, a minimum size is enabled when recovering photos, to filter out most other (non-photo) images that may be on your device's memory (from browser cache, bitmaps from other apps, etc).
DiskDigger provides three different ways for you to save the recoverable files: Save to an app, Save to device, and FTP upload, each which are discussed below. To recover one or more files, tap the check mark next to the recoverable files you want to recover, then tap the "Recover" button in the top toolbar.
The first and most recommended method allows you to send the recoverable files to another app on your device. For example, you can send the files to your Email app, so that you could email the files to yourself. You can also send the files to a cloud storage app such as Dropbox or Google Drive. Your device will automatically let you select the app to which the files will be sent:
The last method allows you to upload the recoverable files to an FTP server. In order to do this, you need to have access to an FTP server that is online, with the correct credentials for accessing and uploading to the server. DiskDigger will display a dialog for you to enter the FTP server's host name, and your user name and password for logging on to the server:
Tap "OK" to begin the uploading process. If the login to the server is successful, you will see status updates at the bottom of the screen, until all files have been uploaded. The files will be named based on the location where they were found.
Along with recovering your files, DiskDigger gives you the ability to delete them permanently, so that they will no longer be recoverable. Next to the "Recover" button you'll find the "Clean up" button, which will take you to Clean Up mode:
The Cleanup screen is divided into two tabs: "Thumbnail caches" and "Photos." This is because a thumbnail cache (a file that contains multiple thumbnails) must be deleted as a whole, which would delete all the thumbnails contained in it. Therefore the app allows you to examine these thumbnail caches, as well as individual photos, and select which ones you want to delete.
Note: Since the deletion is done at the filesystem level, the contents of the deleted files are not physically wiped from the device's memory, and may still be recoverable if the device is rooted. In fact, even physical wiping of the files' contents is unreliable with flash memory, which employs wear-leveling that might redirect the overwritten data to a different physical location.
Another powerful feature provided by DiskDigger is the ability to wipe the free space on your device's memory. This is useful for ensuring that your deleted files (which are now considered free space in your device's memory) will no longer be recoverable, even using tools like DiskDigger.
The "Wipe free space" feature can be accessed directly from the main screen of the DiskDigger app (underneath the selections of Basic Scan and Full Scan). It can also be accessed while performing a Full Scan by tapping the Cleanup button.
The app will likely recover files that haven't been deleted, in addition to files that have. Because of this, you may have to look through a large number of files before seeing the file(s) you're looking for. This is something that is under continuing development, and will be improved in the future.
If using the app with a non-rooted device, the app will likely recover lower-resolution versions of your photos. This is a limitation that cannot be avoided. To recover the original full-resolution photos, your device must be rooted.
Recover deleted, lost, or damaged data, personal or business documents, music, photos, videos, and other files from internal, external and virtual hard drives, memory cards, iPhones, iPads, Android devices, RAID arrays, and other data sources. Disk Drill excels in data recovery for Mac.
Disk Drill makes Mac data recovery super easy. In just a few simple clicks, you can get it to scan your device for lost data and display a list of files that can be restored. Preview these files to determine which ones can be successfully recovered.
As a comprehensive data recovery app, Disk Drill requires low-level access to the scanned storage devices. The macOS operating system gives such a privileged level of access only to the most trusted software, and Disk Drill is the premier solution to recover deleted data not only from external drives, but also system disks powering Macs with Intel, Apple T2, M1, M2 and M3 chips.
Disk Drill achieves the necessary level of access by deploying its own kernel extension (known as kext). This extension allows Disk Drill to cooperate with the macOS kernel to access your data storage devices and extract recoverable data from them.
Permanently deleted files that have become overwritten by new data can still be recovered from existing backups, and Disk Drill makes this easier by parsing Time Machine backup disks and scanning local Time Machine snapshots.
Time Machine backup disks are external or network-attached storage devices where incremental backups of your files are saved. Such disks are automatically detected by Disk Drill, and you can scan them with just a click. Local Time Machine snapshots, on the other hand, are saved on the system drive when backup disks are not available, and Disk Drill can also scan them for you.
3a8082e126