Recovering deleted photos

MXW

My son has been out all afternoon taking photos for his A level photography course. He has come home to edit them, apparently put them in a folder on his phone, and for whatever reason, the vast majority of his photos have been deleted.

Is there any way of recovering these photos?

Many thanks

DCFC79

They dont just delete on own accord.

Are they not stored in the cloud ?

MXW

DCFC79 wrote: »

They dont just delete on own accord.

Are they not stored in the cloud ?

He moved them to a folder on his phone, it then deleted the photos from the camera and the folder that was created.

He has tried to recover them, but without much success.

Thanks

Biggles

Maybe if you post the make and model of the camera, someone with experience of it will be able to work out what happened. But it doesn't look good.

MXW

Biggles wrote: »

Maybe if you post the make and model of the camera, someone with experience of it will be able to work out what happened. But it doesn't look good.

It was a phone, oneplus 3T.

Thanks

stevemcol

You could try this. https://www.piriform.com/recuva

Stupefied

ignore that, misread your post.

victor2

So, he took photos on a mobile phone camera for his A level photography course and the said photos were deleted from the phone by means unknown (or his efforts to move them to another folder on the same phone) before he was able to copy them somewhere else for editing?
Close to impossible to realistically recover them if that is the case.
He has presumably searched the storage on the phone for any of the "vast majority" of the image files?

MXW

victor2 wrote: »

So, he took photos on a mobile phone camera for his A level photography course and the said photos were deleted from the phone by means unknown (or his efforts to move them to another folder on the same phone) before he was able to copy them somewhere else for editing?
Close to impossible to realistically recover them if that is the case.
He has presumably searched the storage on the phone for any of the "vast majority" of the image files?

Yes he has searched the storage on the phone for the "vast majority" of image files. I took him into the countryside today, and was with him when he took the said photos.

neilmcl

MXW wrote: »

He moved them to a folder on his phone, it then deleted the photos from the camera and the folder that was created.

He has tried to recover them, but without much success.

Thanks

As above, files don't just get deleted. How did he "move" the files - drag & drop? If so, he could well have missed the target folder and ended up dropping them onto another folder or root directory.

Was he moving the files using the phone or did he have the phone connected to a PC and using file explorer or similar?

ARandomMiser

Is this the 21st century equivalent of the dog ate my homework?
Hope he gets sorted.