Where is "recently deleted" photos folder

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.

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.

Are you using Photos on your Mac? Enable the Sidebar (View Menu)

thanks Terence. I was taking a wild stab at it.

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.

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

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.

Then the likely case is you have no recently deleted photos - it only appears when it has some contents

LN

Just deleted a couple - still nothing.

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?