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Lost geotagging of old photos
« on: January 05, 2014, 02:42:34 am »
Last couple of days swype stopped working and I thought it was my phone, so I did numerous hard resets, restores, formats, etc, until I finally found a fix for swype. My phone is now very clean and has only the few apps I really need, however, the old photos I took previously do not show up on Nokia Maps, which I thought is a cool feature.  New photos I take show up on the map.  I have a couple of older backup files, however, don't want to perform a full restore, because it may restore unneeded apps or files.  Is it possible to locate the geotagging file from backup and save it to my clean phone? Any other solution? Thank you.
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2014, 03:34:52 am »
You might try restoring Settings only, but i don't know if geotags are stored in a backup
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2014, 09:49:44 pm »
You can try using Nokia Backup Explorer to navigate the .arc files in F:\Backup.
Let us know if it works for you ;)
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2014, 11:02:52 pm »
Thanks, it's a great tool, however, I could not locate a single .arc file.  There are a lot of .rsc or .r01 and up files.
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2014, 11:11:28 pm »
Where are you looking ???
Backups are archived in F:\Backup and nothing else goes in that directory.
Use X-plore to see them on the phone itself (enable viewing hidden files and folders) or just connect your phone to the PC (with the same settings for folders and files in Windows Explorer) and it will be there.
Just copy the files to the PC and open with NBE.
Are you looking at a Nokia Suite backup?
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2014, 11:38:32 pm »
I got a bit confused. I thought I should be looking in the phone backup that I created a wild back with Nokia Suite. On the phone itself, my F: drive is the SD Card, where I keep the photos and videos, however, I don't see any .arc files either.
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2014, 12:37:41 am »
So you never used the File manager utility to back up your device, then?
The F:\Backup directory stores .arc (archive) files created in on-phone backups.
i know next to nothing about Nokia Suite backups. i don't use it.
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2014, 01:28:54 am »
Perhaps if I knew which files correspond to geotagging, I could find them in my Nokia suite backup. Btw, which is a good file management utility that includes a backup?
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2014, 01:49:21 am »
FileBrowser or the native File Manager
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2014, 07:01:15 am »
Ok, this is a nice app, but where is the back up option? Also, is there any way to find the geotag files?
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2014, 11:42:54 am »
i have already told you what i can about finding any geotags using NBE. i have never used geotagging so i couldn't say what to seek. i can try enabling tagging and snap a few pics so i can see what and where you might find something.
To use FileBrowser to back up data, Options > Tools > Secure backup.
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2014, 03:05:25 am »
Well, it it's not too much trouble and whenever you have a chance, this probably would have helped. Or, do you think such file would have the name of the jpg with it's coordinates? Perhaps I could search inside all the files for jpg file name.
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Re: Lost geotagging of old photos
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2014, 09:54:59 am »
Well it doesn't seem to be in the exif of the picture itself.
i think it is in one of the (locked) .db or .journal files found in C:\private\\, which will make it rather difficult to examine.
i have seen some thumb.db files on the root directories that might have something, but it is all compiled code.
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