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Some bad cleaner app deletes all my photos stored in a directory(folder) which is created manually by myself (for example, /sdcard/myphoto/).

I tried some photo recovery apps. But none of them recovered those photos and none of them provides a feature to recover photos from a specific directory. All recovery apps just scan the entire memory and restore all deleted photos once. (Actually most recovered photos are not deleted at all. I have no ideas why they are recovered... Anyway)

Are there any ways to recover deleted photos from a specific directory in non-rooted device? I am explicitly sure which directory those photos are, and I just want those photos only.

Thank you very much.

PS: I know there are questions about photo recovery. But mine is different. The main focus of this question is "from a specific directory".

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    Data recovery tools mostly use the "file carving" method which scans for JPEG headers in the partition. Of course by this method you get all images, deleted or not. A good tool may check if a recovered images is already known in the file-system (hence is not deleted) but otherwise this could mean that images that were saved twice on your partition - one still exists, the other deleted - the deleted image would be always ignored.
    – Robert
    Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 10:01
  • @Robert thanks a lot for letting me know the recovery concept in the background.
    – sgon00
    Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 13:13
  • @alecxs Thanks for your reply. I don't really know how recovery works. So not sure why the question is how to get partition image. I just want the recovery tool to scan a specific directory for instance /sdcard/myphoto/ instead of finding all the deleted images in all directories in the partition. Mine is not a mediatek device, it's a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 device.
    – sgon00
    Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 13:19
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    “from a specific directory” is secondary thing. Without root you don't have access to underlying filesystem (block device), so data recovery isn't possible at all.
    – Irfan Latif
    Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 16:07
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    @sgon00 sorry I never tried any of such apps, so can't comment. What I know is that data recovery from filesystem isn't possible without access to block devices, which is restricted in Android. For relevant details see my answer to android.stackexchange.com/a/208114/218526
    – Irfan Latif
    Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 17:39

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