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Knowing how to recover deleted photos from Google Drive trash can be crucial in recovering lost important files. When you delete a file on the platform, it is sent directly to the “Trash”.
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There, it will stay for a maximum of 30 days until it is permanently deleted, but it is possible to do this sooner, if you want. However, it happened and you ended up losing an important file, don't worry. It is possible to recover it in a much simpler way than it seems. Check out more details below! Using a browser, access Google's Contact Us page — but it needs to be in “English”. Unfortunately, the following procedure will be done in English, so we will try to offer all the commands ready-made. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to look for someone you know and who understands the language to help you; Otherwise, log in with your Google account whose files or folders you want to recover; In the “Let's get started” field, type the following command “I permanently deleted my file” and click “Next”. This procedure will let the company know that you want to talk about recovering deleted files from Google Drive; Select “I permanently deleted my file” (option you entered in the previous step) and click “Next step”;
Access the Google “Contact Us” page in English and fill in the fields listed above (Screenshot: Matheus Bigogno) Instead of clicking on one of the options offered by Google, click on “Next step”;
Click on “Next step” to continue with the service (Screenshot: Matheus Bigogno) You can only contact Google via email, so select this option to continue; If you are sure that the file or document is yours, click “click here”;
Click on “Email” and then “Click here” to contact Google (Screenshot: Matheus Bigogno)Scroll the open page to the end and click on “Contact us” and log in again with your account to be able to restore files;
Scroll to the bottom of the next page and click on “Contact us” (Screenshot: Matheus Bigogno) Enter your “First name”, “Last name” and check the option that allows Google to locate the files. Remember that this option does not allow you to recover files from Gmail or Google Photos; After this step, click “Submit”. From there, Google has up to 48 hours to recover all recently deleted files.
Fill in the requested data and see how to recover deleted photos from the Google Drive recycle bin (Screenshot: Matheus Bigogno)
Once the process is complete, you will receive an email informing you that the process is complete and the photos or files have been restored. In our tests, this email took no more than 10 minutes to arrive. The files will be available again in their original folders.
How to recover files from Google Drive
If your goal is just to restore accidentally deleted files and folders, know that it is possible to recover them by accessing the “Recycle Bin” of the cloud storage service and clicking “Restore”.
Prepare! Now you know that you can use Google's “Contact Us” and that you can restore permanently deleted photos from Google Drive's “Trash”.
