Windows 10: Downloaded photos disappeared in Windows 10. How do I recover them?

I had downloaded some photos from Facebook in Windows 10, either in Chrome or Edge in the past three days. However, they are not listed in the download history, and are not in the download directory. I find that odd. However, I did know that Windows had shutdown upon updating. There have been no known quarantined files. I do not know how to view Chrome photo cache properly to browse which files they may have been. I remember vaguely some of them. They were not in the edge photo cache. But I remember downloading them. Also, both browsers do not show downloads past a certain date, which is odd. It makes it like there were no downloads, but i had downloaded the images very recently.

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Downloaded windows 10, lost photos, how do I recover them

Unfortunately, I upgraded last week and lost all my photos as well. I even had the IT techs at my company help me look for them and they are gone! I looked in windows.old and they are not there.

Thanks,

Shannon

 

Downloaded windows 10, lost photos, how do I recover them

Hello,

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you.

I suggest you to check in recycle bin once. If the photos are accidently deleted.

If you are unable to find the photos in Recycle bin, type the name of the photo or folder in search box and check.

For more information refer the following Microsoft help article.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/find-lost-files-after-the-update-to-windows-10

If the above steps doesn't help, try to perform a system restore and check.

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  Press Windows + I key and click on Update and security.
  
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  Click on Recovery, and click on
  Restart under Advance startup.
  
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  In the Windows Recovery Environment, on the Choose an option screen, click
  'Troubleshoot'.
  
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  Click, Advanced Options and then click on
  System Restore.
  
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  Follow the onscreen suggestion to restore your PC to earlier point.
  

Hope this helps. Please do let us know if you need any further assistance.

 

For this very reason is why I use a photo backup service.....once downloaded, they are backed up/saved to the cloud. I use onedrive and google photos backup. This way I have 3 copies...a hard copy on my HDD and 2 cloud backups.

As for your issue....try using Recuva, it's free, it may work for you.

Recuva - Free Data Recovery tool - Free Download

 

recuva's links do not download any executable file, and only a 23 kb file....

 

Just tried Recuva - Standard. Worked for me.
HTH,
--Ed--

 

If you can't find recent files you have accessed, make a shortcut to %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent in the account you used and you should find recent files referenced there.

 

When I download mine they go straight to folders set up in Pictures, also I do back them up in the cloud, also once a week I back up to an external hard drive, also on my phone.

 

when i used the recovery software, i didn't find them. i only found others, that look like photos that i had browsed. i don't see the missing photos. nothing in pictures. only past downloaded photos prior to those photos. it seemed like some from a couple of days disappeared. at this point, i don't know if the downloads were interrupted, or windows 10 erased the history, or what. but i had remembered saving the files for downloading. It was 2-3 images. i have online storage disabled since some people have "read only" issue with onedrive, and i am in the process of fixing my system. i would like to recover those photos, but maybe i can't now.