Search for Missing Pins and Boards on Pinterest

Are you a Pinterest fan? Do you “pin” anything and everything that interests you – web pages, images, videos? Chances are, you do.

As a free social media site, Pinterest has long attracted users by allowing them to upload, save, categorize, and manage images, known as “pins,” as well as to curate other media content, such as videos, into collections called “boards.” One question that has become only more pressing over time, and which we believe is now ripe for addressing, is how to find lost pins and boards on Pinterest.

Below, we've rounded up 4 official ways from Pinterest and a reliable deleted file recovery tool – to help you easily restore your deleted, lost, or missing Pins or Boards with ease.

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Part 1: Official Pinterest Help - Recovering Lost Boards or Pins

Pinterest stores all uploaded pins on its account-based cloud service. However, there's no 100% effective way to retrieve them once you delete pins and boards.

Still, the Pinterest support team has provided four official troubleshooting tips to help with this issue. Check out which method applies to your case and try to recover your lost boards or pins:

#1. Recovering Deleted Panels from a Backup

Sometimes, a Pinterest board link sent or shared through an email or a social networking account can be considered a backup. So, you can recover a deleted or lost Pinterest board from a 'backup' by following these steps:

Step one: Open your email inbox and search for the link, probably in a message from the board's secretary.

Step 2: You'll see a notification that the note has been deleted. Just click the Restore button.

Then, the uninstalled tile will appear in the “I Own” section of your dashboard.

#2. Retrieve Pins and Boards from Multiple Pinterest Accounts

Sometimes, if your pins and boards are missing or look different, it's possible that you created another account.

The best way to resolve this is to make a list of all your email addresses and try logging in with each one until you find the correct account and recover all your missing pins and boards.

Here are the steps:

Step 1. Go to .

Step 2: Click and visit the link: https://pinterest.com/password/reset/.

Please enter the email address, name, or username associated with your account in the field and click “Submit.”

If you're using a name or username, tap Next to the right of your account, then tap Send.

Step 3: Check your email associated with the account and click on "Reset Password."

Step 4: Go to https://pinterest.com/login and log in with your email address and new password. Check to see if all of your lost pins and boards are back.

#3. Restore the sub-board

If your Groups panel on your profile suddenly disappears, it might be because you left those groups, or the group creator removed them.

So you might try contacting the owner of that board and asking to be reinvited, or subscribed again.

Here are the steps to send a request to follow a group board:

Step 1: Log in to your Pinterest account.

Click on the board you want to join, and open it.

Step 3: Click “Follow” next to the section name at the top of the screen.

#4. Search for a cached copy

Pinterest suggests searching your Pinterest username, board names, or the name of a Pin on Google to find cached copies.

Part 2: Pinterest Recovery - Recover Cached Pictures from Local Disk

In addition to the official support for Pinterest, some power users speculate that they might also like to save cached copies of Pinterest images on their local drives or load videos.

This will increase the chances of retrieving lost Pinterest pictures and videos. If you have lost locally saved files or don't know where the loaded Pinterest images/videos are located, use the Data Recovery Wizard tool as your last resort.

A Data Recovery Wizard utility can scan and find all data files saved on your local disk. Download the software and follow these tutorial steps to recover your cached Pinterest images or videos:

Step 1: Choose a location and start scanning

Hover the mouse over the SD card, camera, or hard drive partition from which you deleted or lost your pictures, and then click “Scan.”

Select the location of the missing photos and start scanning.

Step 2. Select the photos you want to recover

When the scan is finished, select “Pictures” on the left. If you're looking for lost photos, click “Lost” at the top of the list. Then, you can search for photos by device, type, and date.

Step 3: Recover Lost Photos

After previewing, click “Recover” and then select another location to save the photos you want.

After you've saved the Pins and videos you find, you can re-upload them to your Pinterest account.

Part 3: Tips for Protecting Your Pins and Boards on Pinterest

Given the solutions above, you might already know that it's pretty difficult to recover deleted or lost pins or boards on Pinterest. It would be great if there was a way to back up your favorite pins or boards.

So, here are some tips for backing up and protecting those projects:

1. Load and save favorite Pinterest images and videos to your local drive

If you have a large hard drive or an external one, we recommend downloading and saving any pins and videos you like to it. It's easier than trying to rely on Pinterest's supposed “recovery” methods.

# 2. Save links you share in email or on social networks

This also applies if you've saved a link to your favorite Pinterest pins or boards in your email or social network accounts. If you lost access to them, try Step 1 of Part 1 to effectively recover them.

Conclusions

There could be many reasons for losing pins and boards. The most important thing is to find them. You can learn four official methods to recover them. If you've downloaded pictures and lost them, try the Data Recovery Wizard tool. This tool can easily recover photos from an SD card, camera images, and other photos. That's all there is to finding lost pins and boards on Pinterest.