How to Recover Deleted DCIM Folder on Android? [Best Solutions] [MiniTool Tips]

Losing DCIM Folder on Android

Have you ever deleted your DCIM folder from Android by mistake? Have you ever mistakenly deleted DCIM folder from SD card? DCIM folder that contains massive photos and videos is missing? Are you looking for a suitable Android DCIM recovery solution?

Now, in this post, we are going to show how to effectively and quickly recover deleted DCIM folder to get lost photos as well as videos back.

I accidentally deleted photos/videos that were in the dcim folder from my camera. I've searched numerous programs from google but they all seem to be bs. I don't have a rooted phone, but I was wondering if someone on here can give me legit advice and guidance on how I can recover these files. I believe the files were saved on the phone's internal memory and not the SD card. Someone please help. forums.androidcentral.com

At first, you can see the following real-life example to learn this issue:

What is DCIM on my Android phone?

DCIM (Digital Camera Images) folder is used to store some newly taken photos. It is often found in a digital camera or smart phone.

When you connect a digital camera or smart phone to your computer, the disk that appears on your desktop (Mac) or in My Computer (Windows) will most likely have a folder named DCIM inside it.

Of course, if you don’t like the DCIM name, you can change it to the wanted one at any time. It is just in the same way as you change the name of a file or folder on your computer.

Reasons for loss of DCIM folder

• Accidentally formatted memory card.
• Mistakenly deleted DCIM folder.
• Applications like photo gallery deleted DCIM folder and photos in the folder.
• Digital camera error caused DCIM folder missing.
• Virus deleted DCIM folder.
• Incomplete transfer process from memory card to other storage devices.
• Abrupt ejection of memory card while data read/write process is in action.
• Using the same card on multiple gadgets, etc.

In a word, DCIM folder loss happens more and more frequently in the world, and can occur due to many reasons and is unpredictable.

Therefore, it is recommended to back up all important data in case of any accidents. What should you do if there are no backup files? Is it possible to recover DCIM folder off from SD card without damaging the original data?

How to Recover Deleted DCIM Folder on Android

Although DCIM folder loss is inevitable, you can recover lost photos and videos from DCIM folder by using a piece of free Android data recovery software .

MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android, a piece of free and professional Android files recovery software developed by MiniTool Software Ltd., is a good option for Android users to recover lost and deleted DCIM folder.

And, even if you are a new user, you don’t need to worry about Android DCIM folder recovery because this professional and read-only tool offers wizard-like interfaces as well as simple operations which can lead you effectively recover deleted folder on Android phone without any difficulty.

More importantly, it offers 2 excellent recovery modules - Recover from Phone and Recover from SD-Card - to help you recover Android data easily and quickly.

Download this professional Android data recovery software for Android phones and tablets, and then try it out.

How to Recover DCIM Folder from Android Phone with MiniTool

Something you need to know in advance

• You had better close any other Android management software when you are using this software to recover deleted folder on Android phone to guarantee its normal running.
• You have to root your Android device in advance no matter which Android data recovery software you are using. However, how to root Android? Here, you can read this post How to Root Your Android Device to find answer.

Step 1. Launch MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android to get its main interface as follows, and then select Recover from Phone module from this interface to continue.

Step 2. Connect your Android phone to your computer. After that, MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android will automatically detect the connected device.

You will be prompted to enable USB debugging mode. Different Android OS versions have different steps to enable USB debugging.

The following interface shows you four different kinds of guidance. Just select the corresponding guidance according to the Android OS version of your Android phone and then follow this detailed graphic procedure to enable USB debugging.

If it is the first time your Android device is connected to the PC, your PC needs USB debugging authorization. To avoid authorization next time, please check Always allow from this computer and click OK on your phone.

Step 3. Choose a suitable scan method in the Device Ready to Scan interface, and then click Next button to start a scan analysis.

Here, in this window, you can see two scan modes:

Quick Scan : scans your device in a fast way, but it only supports recovering deleted contacts, short messages and call records.

Deep Scan : scans the entire device so that more files could be recovered. Note that this mode may cost more time, please patiently.

Here, we take Deep Scan for example, and then click on the lower right side button Next to continue.

Step 4. Now, you will enter into the analysis interface. MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android will analyze data on Android device, and then scan this device.

On the scan interface, you can click STOP button to stop the scan, and then MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android will load the current data. If you want to recover more data, you had better finish the scan to find out more data.

Step 5. Select all needed files, and then save them on a safe place.

MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android will show you its scanning results as shown below. The data types are listed on the left side of this interface.

Here, to recover deleted or lost photos and videos from DCIM folder, you can choose Camera, Screenshot , App Picture , Picture and Multimedia from the left list and view the items one by one.

After that, you can check the items you want to recover and click on the lower right side button Recover to continue.

There will be a small pop-out window with the software default storage path. Now, you can click Recover button in this small window if you want to save these items to the default path.

If you want to choose another storage path on your computer, however, you can click on Browse button and select a proper location from the second pop-out window to save the selected data.

The free edition of MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android enables you to recover 10 pieces of files and only one type of data once. Therefore, you will receive a prompt as follows if you want to save all selected files.

Now, you can click on " Buy full version " button from this window to get a full version and activate this software by entering the " Serial number " you receive to recover more data without limitations.

After these simple steps, you have finished recovering lost photos and videos from DCIM folder.

After seeing Android DCIM Recovery, some users might want to know whether they can recover deleted DCIM folder from SD card. Keep reading to find answers.

How to Recover DCIM Folder off from SD Card

MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android also offers " Recover from SD-Card " feature to help you recover deleted DCIM folder in SD card. The steps are:

Step 1. Launch MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android, and then click Recover from SD-Card to recover lost photos and videos from DCIM folder.

Step 2. Connect SD card to computer via a card reader, and click Next button to continue. If there is no SD card or this software cannot recognize the inserted SD card, the Next button is grayed out.

Here, you need to know that SD card can’t be connected to the computer directly, and you need an SD card reader to establish the connection. To know more information about SD card reader, you can read this post What Is SD Card Reader & How To Use It .

Step 3. Select the SD card by judging from drive label and letter, as well as storage space. Then please click on Next button to continue.

Step 4. At this time, MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android will analyze your selected SD card.

Step 5. This tool automatically scans the data saved on the card after analyzing the SD card. In the scanning interface, you can click STOP button if you have found desired data. But, it is recommended to wait until this software finds all data.

Step 6. Just select the file type, and then the scanned items will be shown on this interface.

Here, since you want to recover DCIM folder off from SD card, you can click on Camera, App Picture , Picture and Multimedia , and then choose the deleted items you want to recover.

After that, you are supposed to click on the lower right side button Recover to choose a proper path to save these selected files.

There are some limitations in MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android Free, and you can learn these limitations from this introduction: Limits in MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android Free Edition .

Here, if you want to break these limitations and retrieve all of the deleted files from SD card Android, you should get the full version from the official website. There is also lifetime upgrade service for you to choose.

Other Useful tools for SD Card DCIM Folder Recovery

In addition to MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android, there are some other tools for SD card deleted DCIM file recovery.

1. MiniTool Photo Recovery, a free photo recovery software, which can be used to recover your lost and deleted photos, videos and audios from different kinds of data storage devices, like internal hard drive, external hard drive, SD card, memory card, USB flash drive, and more.

Thus, you can use this software to recover deleted DCIM folder on Android.

With the free edition of this software, you can recover 200MB data for free. Just download and install this software on your computer to have a try.

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If you want to use this software to recover your photos, videos and audios without limitation, you can use its advanced edition. Please get one from the MiniTool official site.

2. MiniTool Power Data Recovery is another free data recovery software which can assist you to recover deleted DCIM folder

This software has four recovery modules: This PC , Removable Disk Drive , Hard Disk Drive , and CD/DVD Drive .

Among these five recovery modules, Removable Disk Drive is specially designed to recover data from digital media storage devices, and Android SD card is included.

Now, you can just download the trial edition of this software on your computer to check whether this tool can find the files you want to recover. If yes, you can update this software to the full edition to recover all of your needed files.

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Bottom Line

Now, we guess you should know how to do recover deleted DCIM folder from Android phone. If you delete DCIM folder by mistake, don’t worry and you can find answers from this post.

Here, we also remind you that although you can recover deleted folder on Android phone by using MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android, you had better backup all needed data in case of any accidents.

If you find any other good solutions for Android DCIM recovery, please share it on the following comment, thanks. On the other hand, should you have any questions about MiniTool software, please feel free to contact us via [email protected] . We will solve it as soon as possible.

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