Photos Missing From My Android Or From Google Photos...

[J Grant]

One suggestion - perhaps ask your clients if it would be helpful to them to get the appraisal reports in ( with the value, all complete except for the photos ) because you need to return to take the photos due to a software glitch, and that you can send them the appraisal with the photos several days later/as soon as you get the photos retaken,

So sorry this happened to you - it is an appraisal nightmare, I've had to issues in the past it sucks.

 

[RCA]

HELP.
During last week I took about 400 photos of 10 ten properties, uploading from my Galaxy A15 5G to Google Photos, one property at a time, following each inspection. Then one day the camera icon on my phone disappeared although the app management program indicated that the app was still installed. I finally give up looking and downloaded a different camera app that works great. HOWEVER, SOMEHOW, all photos of about 3 of the 10 assignments are GONE GONE GONE, not in Google Deleted or Archives or Collections, or even available when I do a search by the recent date range. Of course the kicker is that I also receievd a Low Memory error on my computer, and decided to delete many many photos, probably including the recent photos that I MUST FIND TODAY or it is curtains for what's left of my career. ANY PEER ADVICE because I honestly don't want the client or the owners or the lawyers or anybody to know that I AM EITHER AS DUMB AF, or just born under a bad sign. I already cursed and screamed and prayed sincerely so no use offering those suggestions. Damn. Damn. Damn.

As far as I know, Windows does not have the equivalent of Apple's Time Machine. Time Machine is great. It is always making incremental backups of any folders you want. And Time Machine has a browser that lets you quickly go back in time to find the right version. And you can have multiple time machines on different folder sets. You can for example have one Time Machine that backs up to SSDs every 10 minutes, and one that backs up to a hard drive once a week. That is one reason I switched to MacOS.

You can get an "Undelete" utility and try to see if it can find the (most likely) deleted files to undelete. But those apps are usually not perfect - for one thing deleted files usually wind up getting written over with enough lapsed time. So - you really want to use it as soon as possible and avoid writing to that disk as long until you have restored your files.

 

[RCA]

Also note, I still can't get away from Windows 11 for one thing: My large SQL Server databases. SQL Server still has problems running on Apple Silicon (Apple x86 is I guess OK). So, that's when I turn on my big AMD Ryzen computer. But I am moving over my SQL Server data to PostgreSQL on Mac Studio. It will take some time.

Also Microsoft keeps making things worse, slowly but surely. I hate Azure - and Microsoft is continually making it more difficult to do anything without logging into a Microsoft Account and without tying yourself to Azure.

 

[Dale Floyd]

Plug up your phone to your PC, and start looking through your phone's folder using the file explorer.

Good luck.

 

[Zoe]

Even somebody that sells your phone brand can probably find them. I would not swear google could not find them but I would try a Galaxy phone dealer close by if you and both. Those people that work on galaxy phones if you can find one can probably locate them.

 

[Zoe]

You would probably be better off next backing photos up somehow that are slowing you down or taking up all your space. I just recently had to buy more storage space for my apple iphone because it was bogging it down. Same way on your computer. You can buy online storage space or get an external hard drive to back up too.

 

[Zoe]

Plug up your phone to your PC, and start looking through your phone's folder using the file explorer.

Good luck.

Yeah, that could work.

 

[Zoe]

May need a computer tech to help you that knows what they are doing. That does suck.

 

[Tom D]

One suggestion - perhaps ask your clients if it would be helpful to them to get the appraisal reports in ( with the value, all complete except for the photos ) because you need to return to take the photos due to a software glitch, and that you can send them the appraisal with the photos several days later/as soon as you get the photos retaken,

I agree with sending in the appraisal without the photos. They probable will takes days, if they do, to even look at the full report, maybe just the value wanted. I just did that recently with a missing photo. Now you can drive back out there. I like my galaxy, but i use a camera with a memory disk.
Easier to take a photo with one hand, especially those comp photos. With a memory disk in the camera you got a backup unaffected by this issue. I'm a caveman appraiser, i dislike using my phone for appraisal work. But good to have as the backup.

Deleted photos cannot be found by just looking. But, nothing actually totally disappears on a computer. When you delete something, windows just takes off the first number/letter of the file. It sits there on the hard drive not being in the table of contents. The recycle bin is the safety stop for deleted things. If it wasn't in there first you never downloaded it, which i think happened. Once you delete it from the recycle bin, it disappears from the normal search. But sometimes things go quirky and you cannot find it. Deleted folders cannot be returned after recycle deletion, period.

 

[Zoe]

There not gone but you need a good tech guy not a phone sales guy. If you could delete them for good that easy the police and FBI would never have any evidence.

Those people in big apple store near me that sell and service apple phones can hook that thing up on a computer and find just about anything on that phone. The little laptops they work out front in with sales and customer service are hooked to technicians that work in back. They can tell you if those pictures are on there or not as long as the phone is working.