Recovering deleted photos from Lightroom

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Okay i know i probably messed up. So i had no idea that lightroom, when they sync your photos from they cloud, they create a folder on your hard drive with the sync photo for lightroom CC. I accidentally deleted that folder to free up space. Then all the app couldn't locate the photos so i looked and looked on how to resync them and found nothing. (Here's where i make the biggest mistake) So i thought, maybe if i delete them, they'll re-sync. So i select them photos that couldn't be located and deleted them, then i notices my cloud storage starts gaining more space.

Everything i just deleted was only in the cloud. I had no other back-up. Is there any posible way to recover them?!

Charlie.D · Answer

If you deleted the files as they are shown inside the Lightroom app, it might be possible they're in the cloud synced album called "Deleted" -- this is like a computer trash folder, and you may be able to restore files from here. See here: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/using/restore-deleted-photos.html

If you deleted files from your device, and they aren't yet imported and synced in Lightroom, the only possible help here is if you have a backup of your device from when the photos still existed. Do you have a device backup you can restore?

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