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How to recover Lost Files from internal memory?

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Goedele

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What I lost:
The first TKD-sparringmatches ever of the 7yo son of a friend of mine were succesfully filmed with my SGT 10.1v. The boy performed phenomenally: Despite being a debutant, he won 3 matches in a row and won the golden cup, abroad!

How I lost it:
At home, I eagerly connected the SGT with the USB-cable to a Windows XP pc, selected the mentioned files in the DCIM/camera folder and choosed "MOVE". The transfer started, with placing the files in the "My Documents" folder on the PC. Because that wasn't my preferred destination, I canceled the transfer...

When I wanted to restart the filetransfer, I discovered that the unthinkable had happened, the files were gone !!! They no longer existed on the Tab... :o

Futile Rescue:
I immediately started an obsessive search in Google, determined to find a solution to recover these lost files. In the meanwhile, I made sure, to put nothing new in the tab's internal 16GB memory.

Now:
That happened a week ago, and I'm devastated. The only way, afaik now, to make a beginning in recovering the files would be to ROOT the device and install special software e.g. Hexamob, wich hasn't even been developed for Android Honeycomb. :(

Therefore, I can only hope to get an answer from you guys, to help me in my moment of total desolation...
 
Are you sure the files are not on the XP machine? The Windows explorer "move" function, doesn't delete the source files until the destination files have been created. You may have tried to cancel after the move was done.

If you do need to try and recover the files from the Tab, it's more of a generic Android question, and not specific to the Tab. You may want to put the post in another section.
 
pm_phone said:
Are you sure the files are not on the XP machine? The Windows explorer "move" function, doesn't delete the source files until the destination files have been created. You may have tried to cancel after the move was done.
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The files can't be on the desktop PC cause the transfer was interrupted after a few sec's and we're talking GBytes...

If you do need to try and recover the files from the Tab, it's more of a generic Android question, and not specific to the Tab. You may want to put the post in another section.
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I appreciate your help pm_phone, but what section would you suggest?
 
That 'd be nice Szadzik. Allthough most HW where android is installed, have (unlike the SGT 10.1) an SD-card on board but the proposed solutions for SD-cards don't work on internal flash memory...
 
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