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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)
Same thing - no recently deleted folder, in file drop down or 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.
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.
El Capitan 10.11.2 tried the delete a photo repeatedly nothing.
gterpen125 wrote:
El Capitan 10.11.2 tried the delete a photo repeatedly nothing.
I don't know that it matters but I am running 10.11.3.
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!
Since no one has ever changed this I doubt that they will "again" - this is the way Photos has worked since its release just over a year ago - no change ever
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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?
so, how can I find a photo I just deleted by mistake??
What version of Photos are you using? The later versions have the Recently Deleted album in the sidebar under Albums:
You obviously didn't read my reply yesterday in this topic (previous page).
Where is "recently deleted" photos folder
