Friday, March 27, 2026

itunes – Recovering lacking Voice Memos from iPod contact backup – recordsdata exist on system however not in backup/export

I’m making an attempt to get well ~650 Voice Memos from an iPod contact 6 (iOS 12.5.8 (16H88)).

On the system itself, all recordings are seen within the Voice Memos app and play effective. Nonetheless, a lot of them haven’t any identify (the title subject is clean, however the date exhibits beneath), Undecided if it was all the time like that, or if an replace or one thing corrupted it.

Right here’s what I’m seeing:

  • Within the filesystem (/Recordings), there are solely ~440 .m4a recordsdata

  • The remaining ~200 recordings do NOT exist as separate .m4a recordsdata

  • Within the Voice Memos app, all ~650 recordings are nonetheless current and playable

What I’ve tried:

  • iTunes Backup Explorer – solely finds the ~440 named .m4a recordsdata within the filesystem MediaDomain/Media/Recordings (it additionally doesnt maintain actual filenames anyway)

  • 3uTools – When I attempt to click on the Voice Memos, it says “restricted by iOS model” The file system additionally solely exhibits the identical 440 .m4a recordsdata as the opposite Explorers.

  • iMazing – this was the one program that appeared to acknowledge all of the recordsdata, within the voice memo export mode. The issue is that once I tried to export it, every of the clean recordsdata defaults to be named the identical because the date. Subsequently, after every export, it asks me if I need to substitute or cancel the operation since they’re duplicate filenames. (No possibility to save lots of each.)

  • A complete bunch of different instruments that noticed the identical as these applications and even much less . A lot of them do not even present you the whole file rely, so I can not even inform 100% if that they had the total quantity or not.

I attempted plenty of different methods to get to the recordsdata, however there appears to be no regular strategy to batch share them or iCloud backup. This storage is full all the way in which, so cannot even do an iOS replace, with out having to delete plenty of issues. However do not even know if that can assist or make issues worse.

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