Two weeks ago, we had some friends over and one of them wanted to show us some of her photos, so she used my Mac to import them and do a slideshow on the TV.
Now she just realized that the photos aren't on her phone anymore, and asked me to send the copies that were on my computer. The problem is that I deleted her photos the next morning, thinking she had them on her phone.
Apparently the Photos app has a tickbox that removes the photos from the phone after the import but nobody payed attention to that setting.
So my question is: is there a chance to recover the photos using a data recovery software? Is there a folder in particular that I should scan?
Best Answer
When images are "deleted" in Photos, they are actually moved to a special album called "Recently Deleted", where they wait for 30 days before they are actually removed from your computer. Assuming you didn't manually clean out this folder after deleting them, you should be able to recover them by navigating to Recently Deleted, selecting the photos, and clicking Recover in the top-right corner.
Here is about where Recently Deleted should appear in the sidebar (it may appear differently depending on what other albums you have):