How to recover deleted photos from Lightroom?

[johnj84]

I accidentally deleted photos from lightroom. Unfortunately, I did a delete from disk and don't have a copy of the photos on my computer as well. Is there a way to recover the deleted photos?

[CSelle]

Thank you @laura_Shoe! This helped me out!!

[smp1940]

I have had a problem with deleted images not going to Trash after upgrading to Mojave. A terrific woman with Adobe fixed it.

For whatever reason my external drive was not communicating with "Trash" so she opened the drive, added a new folder "unnamed folder" and deleted it to Trash. Voila !! Images from that drive now deleted with Lightroom go to Trash as they should.

The external drive now talks to Trash - so the problem is not with Lightroom but with Mojave.

[24Pictures]

So thankful for this "problem."  I am running High Sierra and I followed your instructions, adding a folder to my external drive, trashing it, and voilà, the deleted imaged showed up in the trash can. Amazing!

[Anechoic]

Thanks so much for this tip! This trick of creating a folder on the external drive and moving it to the trash allowed me to then see in the trash the image I had accidentally deleted (I thought I was deleting only the Soft Proof image but the actual image raw file was deleted instead).