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I have been deleting duplicate photos (another question for another time) from my iMac. When I do this sometimes a window pops up with a progress bar. The window says "Moving to recently deleted". I can't find this "Recently deleted" folder. It's not in "Finder". I tried opening "Trash" but it's not there. Where might it be. I need to recover some accidentally deleted images.
VIN,iMac (27-inch Late 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
The Recently Deleted folder is a feature of iOS 8+. As a guess your photos are linked to iCloud, hence the message. You would have to recover any photos from your iCloud account from an iPhone or iPad or maybe by enabling iCloud Photo album on your Mac. I've never used the feature so it's conjecture on my part.
The Recently Deleted folder is a feature of iOS 8+. As a guess your photos are linked to iCloud, hence the message. You would have to recover any photos from your iCloud account from an iPhone or iPad or maybe by enabling iCloud Photo album on your Mac. I've never used the feature so it's conjecture on my part.
I accidentally deleted some pictures
From where did you delete them? If it was from an album with just the Delete key they weren't deleted, only removed from that album. If that's what you did then the Recently Deleted smart album will not be activated.
Deleting Photos from a Photos 2 Library
1 - regardless of where you are in the library, i.e. Moments, Collections, albums, smart albums or projects, select the photo(s) you want to delete and use the key combination of Command+Delete to move the photos to the Recently Deleted smart album.
2 - click on the Recently Deleted smart albums in the sidebar.
NOTE 1: If you're using Photos 1.2 or earlier use the File ➙ Show Recently Deleted menu option.
3 - in the Recently Deleted album you can opt to let the photo automatically delete after the 30 day waiting period is up, delete them immediately or restore them to the library.
NOTE 2: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with the Delete key only deletes the photo from that item. There is no key combination that will delete a photo from a project and move it directly to the Recently Deleted smart album.
NOTE 3: deleting a photo from a Moment or Collection (the Photos window) or the All Photos window deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.
Where are you deleting the photos from? If you're deleting from an album or project they only get deleted from that album or project.
Delete a photo from the Photos or All Photos window and check the Recently Deleted album.
Deleting Photos from a Photos 1.3 Library
1 - regardless of where you are in the library, i.e. Moments, Collections, albums, smart albums or projects, select the photo(s) you want to delete and use the key combination of Command+Delete to move the photos to the Recently Deleted smart album.
2 - click on the Recently Deleted smart albums in the sidebar.
3 - in the Recently Deleted album you can opt to let the photo automatically delete after the 30 day waiting period is up, delete them immediately or restore them to the library.
NOTE: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with only the Delete key only deletes that photo from that item. Deleting a photo from a Moment or Collection deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.
Are you using Photos on your Mac? Enable the Sidebar (View Menu)
TThanks. I found it under "File" in the task bar. It scared my, though, as it was an empty folder at first. After some time it propagated with images. When I found the one I wanted and clicked to restore it the was a considera delay before it took affect.
I have this question, My side bar is open it is simply not there. My photos is not linked to iCloud. The recently deleted folder disappeared with photos and I never been able to find. If someone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Thx. running 1.3 it's not listed under albums like all the pictures of side bars are showing.
Under Albums I have in this order: All Photos, Faces, Last Import, Selfies, Bursts, Screenshots.
The next tab is iPhoto Events and that is it for my side bar.
Not sure what the issue might be but I just tested this. Opened Photos, Deleted a photo which opened a location with a trash can in Photos sidebar called Recently Deleted. After recovering the deleted photo by right clicking on it and choosing "Recover", it was back and The Recently Deleted folder went away.
One thing you might try since you are still running Yosemite is to repair disk permissions using Disk Utility. Then check it again. If that doesn't work I don't know what you can try.
Well that was it. I have been trying to delete from albums. This seems like the long way around to delete photos. Personally I liked iPhoto much better.
But I will remember the command/delete option from here on out. Or at least until someone in Ca. decides to change it again.
Thank you for helping me this was getting very aggravating for me!
I have the same question and was told to go to "file" and in the drop down there is "recently deleted". The tutorial shows it toward the bottom of the list. However, in my system the drop down is essentially the same except that the bottom section does not appear. So where is the recently deleted tab?
Whether this is intended behaviour or a bug, the following is worth noting:
In ALBUM view, it is possible to select an image (either single click or double clicking to expand) and delete it with the BACKSPACE button. When you do this, the image disappears with no warning but does NOT go into a recently deleted album - it simply vanishes. CMD Z does however bring it back.
If you RIGHT-CLICK the image and delete using the pop-up menu items, a warning comes up and, when deleted, the image does go into a 'recently deleted' album.
manofdogz wrote:
Whether this is intended behaviour or a bug, the following is worth noting:
In ALBUM view, it is possible to select an image (either single click or double clicking to expand) and delete it with the BACKSPACE button. When you do this, the image disappears with no warning but does NOT go into a recently deleted album - it simply vanishes. CMD Z does however bring it back.
If you RIGHT-CLICK the image and delete using the pop-up menu items, a warning comes up and, when deleted, the image does go into a 'recently deleted' album.
That is the documented way Photos works - the delete key remove the photo form the album but not from the library and command delete moved the photo to recently deleted for final deletion in 30 days
LN
I don't have recently deleted in either file or like your picture in the albums bar, any idea why? I accidentally deleted some pictures, and it is impossible for me to find recently deleted folder in my iphoto.
That depends on undisclosed information - in Photos 1.0 it is under the file menu ==> recently deleted - in the current version of Photos 1.3 it is an album in the album section
LN
As a test launch Photos with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
Where is "recently deleted" photos folder
