Lost voice memos

Hi atthetone.

I am stil having problem in getting my voice memo.

My Scenario.

1. I have recorded important discussion and synced with MacPro Itune.

2. By mistake I deleted the file in Iphone 5 and as well as MacPro.

3. Unfortunately, I did not back up in my Time Machine.

4. After reading this thread. I connected my Iphone 5 (Lates Patch) in my Linux server. I was able to locate recording folder and I can view other recordings in Iphone 5 as well as MacPro. Except my deleted voice memo.

I desperately need my file. I tried Iexplorer in mac but still not able to recover. Can you give me step by step instruction so that I can validate my steps.

Regards

From

BizStack

Hi , did u find a soution

My issue is

1) restored my iphone 4s with backup of 3gs.

2) Lost the backup of 4s , and with that all voice memos lost.

Is there still a way to recover the voice memos with out the backup, DOES IPHONE performs a BACKUP automatically somewhere before RESTORE ?

Thanks,

I tried the iExplorer idea. It only shows about 17 voice memos from a year or two ago, none of my lost recent ones. When I plugged my iPhone 5 in a few weeks ago it said it needed to update the software. I clicked OK or whatever. It froze hard while doing this. I had to do a restore. That's when I "lost" my voice memos. For voice memos I use the app "Recorder" by Bear-Software (I asked them for help but got no answer). After the restore all of my voice memos are gone, sort of. The folders and times of the individual voice memos were all put back on my iPhone, but if I try to play any of them I get the message "Warningw (sic) There was an error loading the sound file." I don't know anything about how this app backs up the voice memos, or where. I do have time machine backups. Would those voice memos be in my time machine backups? If so, where, and what might they be called?

Mac Pro 2X-Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz MA970LL/A

OS X 10.6.8

Memory: 10 GB

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

iPhone 5

Hello!!

What about if I cannot download this iExplorer. I'm working on an old Macbook with 10.5.8 and cannot upgrade!?

I have the same problem as others, I updated to the latest version for my Ipod Touch and then all my voive memos (older specially) are not there! the only one I see is the most recent one, after I did the upgrade.

Any other way I can retrieve, recover these? another advise to avoid this from happening again?

I hope I haven't lost them, I have not deleted them myself in any way that I know of. Both my mac and ipod touch shows only one (and same) voice memo on itunes!

Please help!!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Many good karma points for you. You're a lifesaver!!

thank you very much wintersong.. how can i repay you about this information?? oh God.. i lost my voicenote that i recorded my interview with my subjects to submitted my thesis.. once again thanks very much for sharing this information to us, especially to me.. 🙂

There is another program called TouchCopy which will allow you to copy over content from your iPhone or iPod to your computer and to iTunes.

You can use iPubsoft iPad iPod iPhone Data Recovery to recover your iPhone data! It is a good helper for you to recover lost iPhone voice memos!

I experienced loss of important archived voicemails on my Iphone after restoring my Iphone 4s to Iphone 5 using ITunes backup files and again about 6 mos later after restoring another new Iphone 5 with a recent ITunes backup after water damage occurred to my first Iphone 5. Nobody in my local Apple store or on Apple phone support, including a "senior technician" had any useful knowledge to assist me with this issue. Ultimately, I spent many hours researching this myself and found that Iphone voicemails are available for a limited period 30-90 days depending on the carrier but more importantly, voicemails ARE also indeed archived on an ITune backup. These voicemails are archived regardless of age assuming you didn't delete them off your IPhone before last backing up your device.

So, if you lost or damaged your iphone but have an ITunes backup, all you need is an ITunes extractor, unfortunately not available through Apple. There are several ITunes extractors available for music, photos, SMS files but most do not read voicemails. I successfully extracted from my ITune backup file all my voicemails, old and current using http://www.ipad-converters.org/recover-deleted-voicemail-on-iphone/ (Windows and MAC versions available). A life-saver!

I tried ALL of the various programs/apps/strategies mentioned here in this thread. Each one. No good. Each program only revealed the remaining 6 messages on my iPhone (I'm missing about 30?). So, big deal. I've got those remaining- that is not helpful. So, tried to restore from last backup on iTunes. Got the message that the backup was corrupted. Seriously?! I'm pretty meticulous about my equipment/hardware. Thanks, Apple. Lost some great ideas that came to me when a sketchbook wasn't handy and I used Voice Recording instead. Gone for good. That feels great. I'll never use it again, that's for sure.

Oh, and I've been doing a restore from the most recent backup (that I enacted after discovering my Voice recordings missing), and for the last 45 minutes the backup has offered that the "Time remaining" is about "15 minutes." Maybe by Thursday my backup will be complete?

I record my classes n college and go back and relisten to them and update my notes in case I miss something. Today when class ended, i accidentally clicked "delete" instead of "ok". Is there a way to get that particular memo back that I never clicked ok on? I'm seriously doubting I can get it back, but very hopeful that it still has it in there somewhere like a computer would. Apple needs to implement an undelete button for voice memos.

Thank you sooooo much for sharing this post with us Wintersong! I could not have retrieved my voice memos without your help and your instructions were very straightforward and clear. I really appreciate your help 🙂 Karen

Huge thanks to wintersong for the suggestions and outlined process, worked perfectly for me and was able to save my precious and priceless voice memos of family members who are no longer with us. Thanks a million!

My wife just had the same issue and had a meltdown because it had all our baby recordings on it from heartbeat to first words. Restoring old backups did not work with her iOS8. I restored her backup to my old work phone on ios7 and they were all there. If anyone has access to an old phone that could do it! She is most unhappy though...