Hi,
I seem to have some weird things going on with my SD-card.
First everything worked fine, but then suddenly all my files seemed to have disappeared.
When I took a look in my "memory" (start, settings, system, memory) there was no change
in memory-usage (still there was 1360 Mb in use and 566 Mb of free memory.)
In "File Explorer" no files were to be seen at all...
When I took out my SD-card an put it into a USB-card reader, my pc showed only a file called EncFiltLog.menc
So I can't copy the files to my pc as well...
I'm using this card for over 8 months now without any problems untill this...
My encryption function in my Jasjar is turned off, I've never had it turned on actually...
The first weird thing I noticed was the question whether I'd like my jasjar to search the card for music files, while I always had this card in my PDA. I never had this question before. The EncFiltLog. menc is created just before I discovered my files disappeared.
(We were just trying to play some music, but the storage card was nowhere to be seen in my media player, so I took the SD card out and put it back in)
The reason why I didn't pay attention to that question and answered "no" was that my old Qtek S100 also does it all the time without giving me any problems at all and this Jasjar already had the files on my card in his library...
After that my files seem to have gone...
Does anyone has a solution for this?
For me, there are some really valuable items on the card which I rather not loose.
(I know I should make back-ups, but these files were too recent to make one...)
Thanks in advance,
JT
Same problem
As of yesterday, I have the EXACT same problem as described above. I could use some of the famous XDA wisdom...please.
What Roms are you two using? And SD Storage settings?
Same problem
Samsung SCH-I760
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
CE OS 5.2.19202 (Build 19202.1.0.0)
ARM920T S3C2442 Processor
SanDisk 2GB Micro SD
File Encryption is turned off (unchecked)
The SD card has functioned perfectly for almost a year. Yesterday I noticed that about half of the folders stored on the card had disappeared. Of course, I have tried reinserting the card, soft resetting the device, restoring the device to an earier date, etc...no luck.
The card shows 1.8 GB of memory "in use." However, only about 500 MB of that information is accessible or even visible. When I insert the card into my desktop computer, the mysterious "EncFiltLog.menc" appears.
Also note that flashed the 6.1 ROM upgrade to my device a few weeks ago. Since that time, I have installed/uninstalled several programs and reset the device numerous times. All data on the card was accessible until this week.
The menc file is dated 08/03/2008. The only software change that I recall performing around this date was enabling the "Scheduled Backup" feature on Spb Backup.
Your help is appreciated.
Eten M800
Windows 6.1
same problem here. it appears out of nowhere and after googling, i found out that it's because of windows 6.1 encryption thing. problem is, i dont have the box ticked at all. and whenever a menc file gets created, my phone will ask me if i want to format the card to make it readable and cant scanned the card. after deleting the EncFiltLog only the SDMMC will appear again
any solution with this problem?
For as far as I know: nope
nothing....
I have discovered the same problem with my Samsung Omnia i900. Any soultions yet to the EncFiltLog.menc problem?
EncFiltLog.menc
onestopbb said:
Any soultions yet to the EncFiltLog.menc?
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There appears to be two scenario's here, and none of them you are going to like.
If some of your files appear with .menc extension (and all your files are there), this means they have been encrypted by WM6. The only way to recover them is with the original device that wrote them.
Please note the following:
if you hard-reset or flash your device you will lose your original code, and all files will become unreadable.
there is no way (as of yet) to find out the encryption code, or back it up
If you only have EncFiltLog.menc file on your SD card, and all your other files are missing, it is extremely likely that you have had file corruption on your SD card and your files have been erased.
Please note the following:
EncFiltLog.menc is a red-herring, it usually exists on all SD cards (a system file, even if you're not using encryption)
You may find a good program to recover your lost files. Do this soon, and don't use the SD card before doing this.
I wouldn't rely on this SD card in the future for anything important.
I hope this helps. NB, I have found some good recovery programs for jpeg files if you're interested. Sorry to be bearer of bad news.
*** Always back up your files to your PC using ActiveSync... frequently ***
(if you have encoded your files, then you MUST use ActiveSync)
Thanks for the update.
This problem mostly happens if you flash your device with sd card inserted.
Try to go back to the prevous rom and I think the content of your sd card will be available again.
Actually, its a new card and all I did was insert it into the phone, then into my computer. I didn't flash anything.
lost a important video of my dead child (menc encoded)
My 8 years girl is dead 6 months ago from leucemia after a 6 years battle. We found our brother in law as now a menc video on is phone. It is one of very few video we have from her where we could ear her talk, so this is important for my wife se could recover it to be able to help her pass with the death.
Since this brother in law did not know how to see the file before talking to us he tried to reset the phone. The file is on his sd card and today we went to telus to transfer the menc files on my pc but the young technician to the sales departement did not know how to read the file. He tried with the vlc but the menc files cannot be read with vlc. And the phone cannot read the file any more. I have a copy of the file. Do you know how to debug this kind of file
tremblaym84 said:
My 8 years girl is dead 6 months ago from leucemia after a 6 years battle. We found our brother in law as now a menc video on is phone. It is one of very few video we have from her where we could ear her talk, so this is important for my wife se could recover it to be able to help her pass with the death.
Since this brother in law did not know how to see the file before talking to us he tried to reset the phone. The file is on his sd card and today we went to telus to transfer the menc files on my pc but the young technician to the sales departement did not know how to read the file. He tried with the vlc but the menc files cannot be read with vlc. And the phone cannot read the file any more. I have a copy of the file. Do you know how to debug this kind of file
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I'm sorry to hear that.
Put the video in the same device where it was encoded and transfer to the PC using ActiveSync.
Please note, this video cannot be decoded on other device!
hi this happened to me today also.
tried to watch my pictures and saw anything ... zero.
Just my pictures are away... music and other files are there.
Than i notice that i have a new file on my card 3.4.2009 6:56h on this time that i used this.
How can i get this jpg pictures back ? i have some in the cache, but in the pcm (what the hell is that!!!!!??) file.
Its possible to transform a pcm to a JPEG ?
need help thanks for answer
may be unknown virus
I am sure there is a virus in your system. i had also same problem but there was a 'new folder'(created every time i formatted my memory card) with the same named file.Tried antivirus but could not clean system.i used another computer and problem solved.
Everything deleted except the EncFiltLog.menc file
k, today I also got me. The complete SD-Card was erased, only the fuggin EncFiltLog.menc remained, giggling at its devious work.
I'm using a Loox N560 with newplowe's WM 6.1 20755 ver.063.07 ROM, encryption unchecked form the beginning.
The SD-Card was working fine all the time, until I put into the cardreader of my laptop (I've done that a millions times before with that SD-Card and that ROM). Unfortunately I couldn't recover any files form the SD-Card. Music, navigation software can be restored, but my older backups as well as my *.cab collection is gone.
[email protected] encraption tool
I know this is a little old thread but I am new here
I just got my 1st windows mobile phone ever the Touch Pro 2. I have had an 8 gig card in my old phone working for a year no problems. I had pictures and video and a bunch of music. I stuck the card in my new phone and didn't think it recognized the card at all. Me being new to all this windows mobile didn't know to go to file explorer and arrow down to memory card so I took the card out out everything on my work computer and was going to try to format the card in the phone. Somehow I put everything back on my card came home and went to put everything on my desktop and I was going to format the card from my pc and that is when I noticed everything was gone on my card also. I had the one file and nothing else.
I didn't have much important stuff on mine but a couple pictures and a video which I can reget but it still upsets me I lost a whole folder of pictures that I don't know if I have on my pc or not. So I formatted the card in my PC and started over. I now have some music a picture and one video as a test. I notice that file is still there is it suppose to be there? The menc or whatever it is. I hope i don't lose my stuff again but I guess I'll back it up this time. The music is always on my pc so I don't care about that but the pics and video mattered.
Wrong section
Welcome to forums
Universal does not means all devices, have a look on Rhodium section for your specific device.
Good luck,
p.s. Great device you have
Oh so did I post in the wrong forum sorry! I was just reading some of the threads and saw abouth the sd card and that is what mine did. But anyway I am new here and will check it out more later when I have time. My 1st smart phone windows mobile ever but so far am loving my Touch Pro 2 the Rhodium is the diamond isn't it? But anway thanks for the reply. Rose
I have posted a similar thread in android discussion but i was centered around Android apps to recover data, now im desperate for anything.
So a bout a week and a half ago, I was having trouble playing a movie over DLNA so I took my SD (Sandisk 64gb) card out of my phone and put it in an android tablet that I am able to connect to the TV via HDMI. Movie played fine and then I took it out of that tablet and put it back in my phone and went about my business using the phone again taking photos etc. Then about 2 weeks ago I was asked to send over a photo I had taken a few weeks ago. So I went in to look for it. all my photos were gone. everything else is still on the SD card but the photos.
I have tried recuva and photorec which has only recovered about 25-26 photos, and the photos are in a very small subset, it doesn't contain my most recent photos or my oldest but ones in the middle sort of. Any help is greatly appreciated. I am hoping that my photos are not gone for good since the photos that were recovered were in the middle section. I am considering the test disk partition recovery but I also dont know if that will do anything either, since I dont know if I "lost a partition". It seems most of these recovery programs are designed for "deleted" files, but I didn't delete these files, I dont know what removing without unmounting them did to it and why it only affected my photos.
Any advice is greatly appreciated
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I'm having the exact same problem nd im fliping out because all of my 1,000+ photos where saved to my micro sd card that is 32gb nd they just vanished out of no where... Then my dad took out sd with out unmounting... I really would like some help... If I am still able to get pics back... is there are apps that I can use to restore my pics please let me know I'm. Desperate to get my photos back. Email [email protected] please any advice at all.
Redneckgal said:
I'm having the exact same problem nd im fliping out because all of my 1,000+ photos where saved to my micro sd card that is 32gb nd they just vanished out of no where... Then my dad took out sd with out unmounting... I really would like some help... If I am still able to get pics back... is there are apps that I can use to restore my pics please let me know I'm. Desperate to get my photos back. Email [email protected]. please any advice at all.
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there are some options for you to explore here.
I take mine out all the time and never had that happen to me. Sorry to here that.
I have an HTC One and when I was trying to download an app onto my phone, suddenly I get a message saying that there is no more storage space available. I went into my settings and went into storage and tried to make more space. I saw that my Program Data folder was taking up a large amount of space. Little did I know that ALL OF MY PRECIOUS MEMORIES WERE GONE! After deleting the program data folder, I went onto Hide It Pro to check out my pictures and as soon as I enter my pin and get through, I end up in the biggest shock. No, this has nothing to do with explicit sexual images, it had all the precious memories of me and my girlfriend and they had all just been erased. I tried using disk digger and other recovery software but no luck BTW, My phone is rooted and running revolution HD with Clockwork Mod Recovery. I have tried almost any and every method I could search up or think of, If there is anyone that can help me out I would greatly appreciate it!
I have a rooted Galaxy S3. One week ago I was in my picture gallery and accidentally deleted a whole folder of 1,300 pics thinking it was one picture (so stupid of me I could kick myself). I have a sd card but was unaware it was almost full and I am assuming it was saving to internal memory. Have several folders in gallery and the main two were labeled camera (has 700 pics and still on phone) and the other was the one with 1,300. Since they are of my kids I am desperate to get them back. I have checked google+ (sync was off, again really dumb, I know). I have been consumed with trying to figure this out but haven't had luck finding any straight answers that are credible. I have tried diskdigger pro but the only files found are the 700 from the sd card. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!
kgraham2299 said:
I have a rooted Galaxy S3. One week ago I was in my picture gallery and accidentally deleted a whole folder of 1,300 pics thinking it was one picture (so stupid of me I could kick myself). I have a sd card but was unaware it was almost full and I am assuming it was saving to internal memory. Have several folders in gallery and the main two were labeled camera (has 700 pics and still on phone) and the other was the one with 1,300. Since they are of my kids I am desperate to get them back. I have checked google+ (sync was off, again really dumb, I know). I have been consumed with trying to figure this out but haven't had luck finding any straight answers that are credible. I have tried diskdigger pro but the only files found are the 700 from the sd card. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!
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Just came across an app on the play store called Dumpster image & video restore. I figure it's worth a shot
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.baloota.dumpster
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Just have a look at my post on http://www.avsoftwaresolutions.co.vu/2014/12/need-help-recovering-something-you-lost.htmlavsoftwaresolutions
Hit thanx if helped
@avsoftwareSolutions.co.vu from MMX canvas 4
Thanks for response, but I have tried recuva. The problem when I connect with pc is it doesn't find phone as a drive, just the sd card.
Have you tried "disk digger" app it seems to be a good one among the pro's.
Hit thanx if helped.
@avsoftwareSolutions.co.vu from MMX canvas 4
kgraham2299 said:
Thanks for response, but I have tried recuva. The problem when I connect with pc is it doesn't find phone as a drive, just the sd card.
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Was it on the SD card or on the internal card?
If on the SD, take out the SD from your phone and plug it into a computer (may need a converter), then use a program like easeus data recovery (you can get it for free one way it another) to restore the data.
Good luck! I can't even imagine having that happen.
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Hi Guys
i have a problem with this phone. i had about 30gbs data in this phone. when i went to tha gallery my whole data was corrupted. the pics were showing just black and a white question? marrk.. but then i had to factory restore it. now everything is gone. is there anyway that i can recover my lost data?? its so important for me. i have pics of my sis in it which died a month ago...
SjDU said:
Hi Guys
i have a problem with this phone. i had about 30gbs data in this phone. when i went to tha gallery my whole data was corrupted. the pics were showing just black and a white question? marrk.. but then i had to factory restore it. now everything is gone. is there anyway that i can recover my lost data?? its so important for me. i have pics of my sis in it which died a month ago...
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Don't you have them saved in Google Photos or something?
Noter2017 said:
Don't you have them saved in Google Photos or something?
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As I said everything. It was in my phone
SjDU said:
As I said everything. It was in my phone
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When you factory reset the phone, you deleted everything yourself.
When something is important to you, make a backup of it. Google offers you 15 GB storage, Amazon Prime clients get unlimited storage for photos and there are local companies like Yandex (Russia) that offer unlimited photo storage for free. Probably other countries have free unlimited photo storage as well
Sorry to hear about your sister. Been there...
The data is still there if not overwritten but not readily accessible. When you factory reset it doesn't zero fill the drive. If you want to try to recover them stop using the phone now.
Don't use apps, techniques that claim to be able to recover it unless vetted by respected members here.
A data recovery specialist with extensive knowledge of that device be the best bet.
The recovered files will be juxtaposed, no folders will be intact and the jpegs will have lost their EXIF information, time stamp, pic number etc.
But you'll have the pictures -if- it works.
Personally I would have written them off but you may get lucky. Unlike a flash card you don't normally have low level access to the internal memory. A data recovery specialist may be able to access the chipset directly. Not sure.
Someone here may have a better plan.
Godspeed.
Thanks guys so much. What should I do now? Can anybody tell?