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sunrisew

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 23, 2011
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I've poked around for about an hour on here and not found anything matching this. My wife has an iPad that had a bunch of movies uploaded to it. I installed them onto the iPad and did NOT keep a copy of them on my hard drive. I did not select "Sync Movies" when I synced the iPad.

I upgraded to IOS5 recently. No problems. Today I added a bunch of music from a playlist in my iTunes library to the iPad. Prior to that, Music had not been synced. The music transferred to the iPad. But even though I never clicked on "Sync Movies," now the dozens of videos are gone--nowhere to be found on the iPad.

I know that these files are not backed up anywhere, so I suspect some are gone, but I also suspect some are still intact on the storage card. Is there a data recovery tool out there that can scan the iPad and recover deleted movies? Recovering these movies would be a big help to me, so I would appreciate any advice.
 

Runmaster

macrumors newbie
Oct 24, 2011
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Fix

Go back into itunes and deselect all of the videos and then sync.
Make sure the iOS5 upgrade is stable.
Afterwards ... add the video files back.
It is a pain.
 

sunrisew

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 23, 2011
2
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There are no remaining videos in iTunes.

I don't have the video files. I'm wanting to know if I can recover the files off of the iPad, akin to how deleted files on a hard drive can be recovered.
 
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