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August 25, 2021
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Recovery of deleted photos.

  • August 25, 2021
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Recovery of deleted photos. 
I accidentally deleted photos from one of my collections. Is there anyway to retrieve these edited photos? Thank you. 

anilp1948

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dj_paige
Legend
August 26, 2021

"Deleted"? What were the exact sequence of steps (in detail, please)? Were these steps done in Lightroom Classic or in your operating system, or somewhere else?

GoldingD
Legend
August 25, 2021

 

 

deleted photos from one of my collections

 

 

Do you mean:

 

  • Removed from Collection

or

  • Removed from Catalog

or

  • Removed from Catalog and deleted from disk?

 

Three very different scenarios

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/photos.html

 

anilp1948Author
Known Participant
August 26, 2021
Hi GoldingD,
Thanks for your reply. I had accidentally deleted the photos from the
catalog and hence they were also removed from the folder. Fortunately I had
not formatted my compact flash card in the camera. So, I have imported the
originals again into the Lightroom and will have to spend several hours
again to edit them. Lesson learned the hard way!

anilP1948
dj_paige
Legend
August 26, 2021

More clarification please.

 

I had accidentally deleted the photos from the catalog and hence they were also removed from the folder.

 

Did you do this in Lightroom Classic? Or did you do this in your operating system?

 

If you did this in Lightroom Classic, did you click on the button that says "Delete from Hard Disk"??


Why did you say at the top that you deleted photos from a collection and now you say you deleted them from the catalog? Which did you do?

 

 

JP Hess
Inspiring
August 25, 2021

If you simply deleted the collection, that only removed the collection from the catalog. However, the images should still be in their folders. A collection is simply an organization of images within the catalog. It does not physically move images. A collection can be an organization of images from multiple folders. But it does not move the images from those folders. It simply creates a reference to those images and organizes the images in a group within the catalog. So unless you went to the folders and delete the images they should still be in their original location.

 

If you did in fact delete the photos you should be able to find them in the trash or the recycle bin, depending on your operating system. But in that case it will be necessary to edit them again because all of the editing will have been discarded from the catalog.