"I found a folder called lost.dir on Samsung Galaxy note 10. But I wonder, what is it? Can I delete this folder? Because I want more space. "
Maybe many people know what lost. Dir is? In fact, it's where the Android operating system places the files recovered during system startup. Lost.dir for Android phones is like a recycle bin for Windows operating system. It's like a recycle bin, where you can recover images, videos, audio files, and other data from the lost.dir folder before you cover them. So the size of the folder varies.
Restore LOST.DIR from SD card on computer
Since lost. Dir is a good way to enable you to recover deleted files. For lost.dir recovery, you need a professional lost.dir data extractor, which is Data Recovery. This is a very professional lost.dir file recovery tool, you can safely and quickly restore lost.dir. Here is a more detailed introduction:
◆ Restore media files such as photos, videos and audio files from lost.dir.
◆ Cancel deleting word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, zip and other documents from lost.dir.
◆ Recover files from NTFS, FAT32, exFAT and other files on desktop, mobile phone and other accessories.
◆ Retrieve deleted emails and other inaccessible or hidden data.
◆ Retrieve data from Android SD cards that are formatted, crashed, deleted, and attacked by viruses.
◆ Retrieve files from hard disk, raw hard disk, raw partition, data system damage, partition loss, etc.
◆ Compatible with data recovery on Windows 10 / 8.1/8/7/vista/xp (SP2 or higher).
Here is a detailed guide to using Data Recovery.
1 Free download, install and run this software on your computer. Connect your SD card to computer by putting it on Android phone or using a SD card reader.
2 Scan SD card
In the main interface, you need to select the data type and hard drive for scanning.
For the file type, you can find image, audio, video, Email, document and others. Tick the data types that you want to recover.
If you are sure which data you want to recover, just pick it up. If you cannot remember the data type in LOST.DIR that you want to recover, just select all data types.
For the SD card, you need to tick it under "Removable Drives".
Then click "Scan" to start to scan the formatted drive.
3 Recover data from LOST.DIR
After the scanning result is done, you can click the folder in the left sidebar to view the detailed data types in the folder.
Find the file type and the exact files that you want to get back, and click "Recover" to save the lost files in SD card to computer.
Tips
1. If you cannot find the data that you want exactly, you can try "Deep Scan". It will take more time to get a comprehensive scan in your micro SD card.
2. You can check the files by both path list and type list in the scanning result. For finding data in LOST.DIR, you had better choose the path list to show the scanning result.
