Album and pictures gone in lightroom

Hi @Rvester81,

Thanks for the detailed timeline, that helps. Based on how Lightroom works, a couple of important points to clarify expectations:

• If an album was deleted, it would appear in the Deleted section for 30 days. Since the last time you recall seeing it was back in April, it would no longer be recoverable from there now.

• Lightroom does not remove albums or photos on its own. Any removal (album deletion or photo deletion) requires user action, whether intentional or accidental, from one of the signed-in devices.

• Albums are organizational only. If photos were removed from All Photos, they would also be removed everywhere (albums, web, mobile). If they were only removed from an album, the photos would still exist in All Photos.
• Also, a poor or interrupted internet connection does not delete photos. Sync issues may delay uploads or cause photos to appear temporarily missing on one device, but they do not permanently remove content from the cloud. Since the images are not visible on lightroom.adobe.com, this indicates they are no longer present in the cloud account, not just a sync delay on one device.

Given that:

• The photos are not visible in All Photos

• They are not present on lightroom.adobe.com
• They are not in Deleted

• And this dates back several months

This indicates the photos were removed from the cloud library at some point and are now beyond the recovery window.

At this stage, the only remaining possibility would be:

• Checking any local backups on the Windows system you originally imported from (for example, original folders, external drives, or backup software like OneDrive, Time-based backups, etc.)

I know this isn’t the outcome you were hoping for, and I genuinely wish there were a way to restore cloud-deleted photos after this amount of time.

Best regards,

Anshul Saini