Windows 10: Recovering lost photos

I was messing with phone link on my computer the other day, and deleted a bunch of things to clear up space on the PC. One of which was all my photos. I incorrectly assumed they would only delete off my PC, but now they are all also gone from my phone.Is there any way to retrieve them?ETA: I was also clearing up space on onedrive, it's possible that I did something there.

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Can data be recovered from a Formatted SD Flash Card?

read, he has lost his flash card with sensitive info on it

 

Lost default photo viewer after profile rebuild

Thanks Brink. I've tried those steps before i started searching Google. After the profile rebuild i don't have the Photo app listed to choose to make it default in either the system settings for default apps or the Open With option.

I can't even find it doing a search. Seems to have been removed somehow with the profile rebuild, which doesn't make sense.

Might be helpful to list what i've done I've done the open with check, the choose default program in the system menu, tried that in device manager default programs also. I've checked the programs and features Turn windows features on/off and it's not listed there (never thought it was but that was a suggestion), searched the MS Store, it's not listed there either.

I don't like playing in the registry unless i have defined steps and haven't found anything for this yet, just the Win7 version like in my OP.

 

Recover lost photo from PhoneLink

Sorry, I completely missed the message. Thanks for the info.
I'm sure I had an automatic backup on google photos but that's not the problem.

Let me explain better:

• No backup is instant because uploading photos takes time, Google Photo also decides to upload only at certain times (and not as soon as I take the photo) based on some criteria that I don't know.
  
• This means that at the time of the theft, 99.9% of my photos were already saved in the cloud, but the last 0.1% had yet to be uploaded and therefore was "lost".
  
• Phone link on the contrary keeps the latest photos (or thumbnails at least) cashed.
  
• These cashed photos, in whatever quality they are, are certainly better than not having them at all (and imo they are actually quite usable)
  

What I'm asking is how to find the folder/partition on my PC where these thumbnails are stored so that I can recover them.