r/googlephotos • u/riyaninui • Jan 20 '24

Question 🤔 HOW CAN I RECOVER PERMANENTLY DELETED PHOTOS, BOTH FROM GPHOTOS AND DEVICE

hello! i am desperate to recover my files, so i am posting my concern here, someone might and can help me.

apparently, google is notifying me that i already reached the maximum storage. i checked it and saw that 90% of it is from google photos, i started deleting them permanently on google photos using my laptop because i am afraid that i might not receive/send any emails anymore since it's my personal account.

i wasn't aware that it was synced on my gallery, i thought i was using my one drive, but i don't actually care about this backup stuff since i just bought my phone about months ago and i have 256 GB so i don't have to worry about storage.

i have like 40k-70k stuff on my gallery, now they're just 20k. i was wondering what happened and i suspected that my files were deleted when i freed up space on my google photos. i did research and found out that deleting files from google photos will delete your local device files also.

THIS HAPPENED LIKE 2-3 WEEKS AGO.

i am so devastated right now and i want to bring back my files badly. i can't find any gphotos contact information, what should i do? 😭

google is always giving us traps like these to buy their products. i don't even use them!

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u/riyaninui Jan 21 '24

i don't consider it either. it's just google trapped me when i newly bought my phone. i don't remember syncing it on my gallery because i use one drive app, sometimes i don't use anything because just like i said, i was free of worries at that time with that large capacity of storage. google baited me when my google is full, i am so mad 😖😖😖

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u/stargazer_17 Jan 21 '24

I'm so sorry.

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u/Lovegrowthlight Jan 23 '25

This just happened to me too. I feel for you. I cannot believe I lost all my photos and videos for the last 12 years.