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My kid deleted a very important vedio in new iPad. However, I can only see the trash while viewing a photo or a vedio. When I touched trach it popped a window said: Delete Photo. I can never open the trash to see what's in it. I can't find trash in home botton screen, either. Thanks!
iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1
There is no undelete option or trashcan or recover content from on the iPad - once it's deleted it's gone. Was it on the iPad when you last backed up ? If so then you can try restoring the iPad to that backup and see if that restores it, but you will need to restore the whole iPad, you can't just restore a video or a single app.
Thank you, King Penguin! It's so sad and unfortunate that Apple didn't think of being able to recover the files from trash. To me that's a common sense to design a "computer". Very appreciate your answer.
Hi Yi-ming Sorry for the late response. Maybe some disk recovery tool can help. Not sure. Or you can check your iCould. Or you can install a tool named Data Recovery for iTunes on your computer. It can help you recover deleted pics and other files on your iOS devices or Mac HDD.
If you have a backup with Time Machine, that may be help. However, if there is no backup with your computer, you can try ipad data recovery software to find back all your lost files in trash bin. One more important thing, if you want to recover them back, you need to make sure that the data hasn't been overwritten. If it has, there is no opportunity to get back your lost files.
Lisaaain wrote:
If you have a backup with Time Machine, that may be help. However, if there is no backup with your computer, you can try ipad data recovery software to find back all your lost files in trash bin. One more important thing, if you want to recover them back, you need to make sure that the data hasn't been overwritten. If it has, there is no opportunity to get back your lost files.
Sounds like you're thinking that an iPad has a "trash can" like a Mac does. As mentioned by King_Penguin above, this is not the case. Once deleted, files (such as photos and videos) are not moved to a user-accessible "trash can" or a temporary holding area until you decide to empty it.
Emails do however use a "trash can" environment but this has to do with how emails are handled by your email provider.
Yi-ming wrote:
Thank you, King Penguin! It's so sad and unfortunate that Apple didn't think of being able to recover the files from trash. To me that's a common sense to design a "computer". Very appreciate your answer.
I guess that they figured that users with valuable data would utilize the sync capability described in the user manual.
Recover deleted files from trash in ipad
