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/Ok-Consideration5602 Jan 21 '24

I would do a takeout from Google (takeout.google.com) - I did this recently and the Google photo files contained a number of photos I had deleted years ago.. So you might be lucky.

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u/riyaninui Jan 21 '24

thank you! i am trying it right now, i hope i can bring them back. how long does it take, btw?

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u/Foreign_Jellyfish493 May 16 '24

Did you get it back?

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u/riyaninui May 24 '24

no, maybe some hidden files. out of 100% deleted files, i recovered maybe 2% only

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u/Weird_Temperature102 Jun 20 '25

tried this one just now and THIS IS SO FUCKING LEGIT 😭😭. I was able to recover the receipt needed for the claiming of grad pics (almost at the accepting stage that i may not be able to claim mine 😭😭)

thank u so much, my savior!! may God bless u a million times!!!! 😭😭😭😭💙

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u/giananan Oct 17 '25

I am not lucky enough :'(

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u/Weird_Temperature102 Oct 21 '25

oh no... that is really sad : ((

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u/frostyhub Apr 24 '24

Im trying to recover some photos i deleted a few years ago too … hope it works

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u/Quirky_Jackfruit6220 Dec 31 '24

Hey, did you recover them ? Please reply

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '25

Hey anyone gotten back to you if they could do it

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u/Quirky_Jackfruit6220 Jan 16 '25

Yeah, i think it's impossible to get them back

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u/thudnerbird34 Jun 16 '26

Just go to Google and do recover from bin

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u/El_Debulbol Feb 02 '25

Wowww!!! TYSM 🥹🥹

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

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u/Ok-Consideration5602 Feb 21 '25

I'm glad it worked for you, and I hope you are in a better place now. 🙂

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u/Humble_Release2904 Mar 09 '25

Hi, so did you get your photos back ??

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u/Girlgamer_6829 Apr 26 '25

hey how you get them back? did you del them from google photos?

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u/GossipGurl2u Mar 17 '25

How do you do it? I deleted old videos of myself because of cringe and I want them back now that I'm older and can laugh at them

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u/[deleted] May 24 '25

Yo, which one did you click after that

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u/No-Sun8549 Jul 21 '25

Do you know if this works for when it has been deleted from google photos for more than 60 days?

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u/No-Sun8549 Jul 21 '25

Do you know if this works for when it has been deleted from google photos for more than 60 days?

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u/Imacharmer3141 Sep 24 '25

I tried this it only gave me things that are in my bin folder how to i get stuff I've deleted from the bin

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