How can I access my file/get my photos back?

[Android Central Question]

Recently Google Photos prompted me to 'clear up space on my phone' on my LG Stylo 4, which I accidentally agreed to. It didn't ask of I was sure (stupid design on their part tbh), and just instantly deleted 200+ photos from my camera roll. They WERE saved on the google photos website, so I went there, selected them all, and pressed 'download.' Only.. now they're gone. Not on the website. Not in my gallery. Not in my downloads folder. All I have is some random file (the only reason I know I have it is because I have an app that saves my notifications, so I could go back and view the download notification with the file name), but when I search for that file in my file manager, nothing shows up.

I tried downloading a single photo after that, and it went straight to my downloads folder/to my gallery. But the rest/the collective group of photos that I downloaded, still aren't there.

So I'm left with none of my photos and a mystery file that I can't seem to access. Is there any way for me to get to this file and save my images, or are they all just gone forever now?

 

[MNMobileGuy]

Recently Google Photos prompted me to 'clear up space on my phone' on my LG Stylo 4, which I accidentally agreed to. It didn't ask of I was sure (stupid design on their part tbh), and just instantly deleted 200+ photos from my camera roll. They WERE saved on the google photos website, so I went there, selected them all, and pressed 'download.' Only.. now they're gone. Not on the website. Not in my gallery. Not in my downloads folder. All I have is some random file (the only reason I know I have it is because I have an app that saves my notifications, so I could go back and view the download notification with the file name), but when I search for that file in my file manager, nothing shows up.

I tried downloading a single photo after that, and it went straight to my downloads folder/to my gallery. But the rest/the collective group of photos that I downloaded, still aren't there.

So I'm left with none of my photos and a mystery file that I can't seem to access. Is there any way for me to get to this file and save my images, or are they all just gone forever now?

Sounds like you pressed 'Delete' instead of 'Download'.

Google Photos does have a Trash folder/function. Try looking there

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! When you download multiple photos from Google Photos all at once, they get downloaded as a ZIP file. You would have to find that ZIP file in your /Download directory and unzip it.

Are you saying that those photos you wanted to download no longer appear in your Google Photos on your computer browser as well?

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