Continued
 

So I convinced the same girl who's videos and pictures I already found to give me an old SD card of hers. I told her my old camera would only take cards under 1 gig. She comes back a couple days later gives me an old 256mb card she found lying around at home. She asked if that would work and I said yeah thank you.

And an extra thank you now after I have run the recovery :)

Half damaged card
 

Lots of sectors damaged, but these were still salvageable..

Recovery Software
 

Guys I tried a lot of the free recovery software you guys have recommended here, for me the one that provided better results was SGsecurity's PhotoRec. Great succesful recovery rate for photos, even pdfs and other shit.
The only problem with this one is that just like the other softwares have been mentioned here the success rate on videos is very low. Many appear blanked or if lucky without sound, just a few are good.

I guess we need to find some that is just oriented to recovering videos.

Cheers ;)

lucky find
 

Found on old card

Last Couple From the SD Card Above.
 

Last couple from that SD card she gave me.

Probably nothing to do with being a video and more file size. The bigger a file is the more sectors it uses on a disk. When deleted the sectors are available for reuse and its likely some get overwritten. Smaller files like pics its less likely

here is one I found
 

I found these on a external hard drive full of movies (not any nude ones :o( )but there were a few of tony's girlfriend
thanks tony
Attachment 8624664 Attachment 8624665 Attachment 8624666 Attachment 8624667 Attachment 8624668

i also have a few Laptop HDD's (2.5") hear, i purchased a an adaptor off of eBay for $8.95, delivered (I'm in Australia)
hooked then up and they just show up as data storage drives when plugged into my iMac. then just scanned them.

i also have one 3.5" hdd hear but it wouldn't even power up so either the plug doesn't work with 3.5 or the hdd is dead. :confused:
ebay.com.au/itm/321472968564?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2648&ssPageNa me=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

excellent work, good to see you copied these pics and uploaded it hear, before tracking down the owner. :D

3.5" HDDs require more power than the 2.5" models. You may need to find an adapter that supplies 12v power, which would likely require an external power supply.

Phones
 

If someone resets their phone, does that also wipe cards and such beyond recovery?

That will not work for 3.5"

You need an adapter that will provide 12V and 5V power, or use a desktop computer for power and USB adapter just for the data / signal.

Be wary of cheap eBay 12V @ 2Amp & 5V @ 2Amp power supplies as some on a hard drive only rated 1Amp will blow after a very short time.

to be honest with you i share your disappointment when i click on this thread and see the latest update is some technical stuff that goes right over my head.

however, let's not be too downhearted - if people are sharing their skills and knowledge and others are learning how to retrieve images, in the long term we all win with stuff to look at when they hit the jackpot :)

if none of the members know how to recover pics, there wouldn't be much to post here. :confused:

And the use of a question form, punctuated with a period to show the use of the rhetorical... quite smart.

Not necessarily.

LOVE this... keep us posted please!

Few good ones
 

Keep this thread going.

Posting the ones I can.

Great pics... love them.. great work

Old Phone Find
 

Found these on an old phone that I acquired.

My ex from an old card
 

Found this of my ex-wife on an old card...

Discarded Phone
 

Found in a thrown away phone.

Been buying cars 5 for £10 from eBay - loads of good finds so far - will get around to sharing shortly

This older woman from yesterday made me chuckle - loads of her amongst pictures of her family

second hand XD card
 

Looks to be from the Staffordshire area...

Some files seem damaged, can see the thumbnail but they open up broken.

more from Staffordshire
 

Some seem corrupted but posting them all in case someone can figure it out.
Also more but they're HC (fingering)

merry Christmas
 

found on cell phone

Chance to buy I Phone
 

A girl I went to school with is selling her I Phone 6 and I have said I might buy it. She 100% has taken lots of nudes on the phone but will have deleted them. She won't have gone any further than deleting and then deleting recently deleted. Would I still be able to definitely recover pics from there? I don't want to waste £200 on a phone for no bloody reason

You must try.... hope never dies...;)

Probably not.
Depends on many factors as for example if iphone is jailbroken or not.
Easiest thing to do when selling an iPhone is resetting it. Encryption on these phones is enable by default so i think it is going to be hard (if not impossible at all) to recover anything.

If she just deleted her pics and just de-associated her Apple id maybe something can be done as you would get the numeric code (touch id code) to decrypt the phone memory and maybe you can perform a scan but i don't know if recovery tools can handle the iPhone filesystem, which root level is not accessible unless it is jailbroken... If somebody has experience regarding it I would be curious about the results....

I would not recommend an iPhone for this kind of activity as security is pretty strong.

I hope so!!! Love to see what she thinks she has deleted

How much of a waste really is it? Is your £200 offer OTT or typical i.e. how much would you be likely to be out of pocket by selling it again? If say £25 perhaps an amount worth loosing?

Found on card
 

Found these on a card I got in a large batch of cards...

Found on a bunch of old cd'S
 

Don't know her not sure where these came from honestly. It was just in a pile of old cd's we were throwing out in the office. It was a cd-rw erased, but it had private written on it.

Best Program
 

Is anyone still doing this and if so what is the best program to use with the newer Windows operating systems?

These aren't exactly on-topic for this thread but I'll post here anyway. I picked them off someone's computer more than a decade ago when peer-to-peer file sharing was new. I think it was Limewire; anyway, you designated which files on your computer could be shared, and some people probably didn't understand that it wasn't just music files, so they set it up to share everything. These were the days of digital cameras where photos were uploaded to computers. I would search for terms like 'nakey' that guys wouldn't use for porn, but women would use for amateur shots of themselves and friends. If something looked promising I could browse the person's entire computer. I got real lucky the first time out, but the whole thing ended up being a huge time suck with not much payback.

I remember this gal lived in Chicago and hung out with rock bands I'd never heard of.

A lot of what I found was pix from amateur sites that guys apparently subscribed to. For instance, file names starting with QSH came up a lot. I kept a separate folder for pix that seemed to be first-time finds, and those are the ones I'm posting here. One clue was that the file names started with DSC which I took to mean they were taken on some popular brand of camera, and left unchanged after they were uploaded to computer. I mention this because it's possible that some of them were from amateur sites, or have made their way to the Internet over the years. AFAIK they are all new to OCC

One more caveat: If I knew or could guess at a woman's first name from the context, I made it part of the file name, but it may be just a guess.

Today's find
 

Trying to keep them together by person/card

This goth liked zombies
 

Strange card full of zombie make up play

Just one nude
 

I liked these two though - they left a photo of their driving licences - age 20 and 21!
Messed up the upload the nude is 405 as an attachment

Mom on a day off...
 

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