Permanently Deleted pictures on photos app on MacBook pro

Hi All,


So i have a MacBook pro 2013 and i am running MacOS Catalina version 10.15.4.


I was in my photos app and i deleted some pictures. I then went to the "recently deleted" tab on the left hand side and then selected all the "recently deleted" pictures and "permanently deleted" the pictures.


I got a prompt form the app that this action could not be undone.


My question: is there anyway to recover these "permanently deleted" pictures? and is so how?


NB: i have no backups of these pictures anywhere!

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on May 10, 2020 6:55 AM

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Posted on May 10, 2020 9:17 AM

If you don't have a backup then there is no way to recover them.

I would recommend that for the future you use an external drive and Apple's Time Machine or other backup software. Computers can fail at any time without notice; there are a number of other ways that your data can be lost.

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May 10, 2020 9:17 AM in response to niccolopdc

If you don't have a backup then there is no way to recover them.

I would recommend that for the future you use an external drive and Apple's Time Machine or other backup software. Computers can fail at any time without notice; there are a number of other ways that your data can be lost.

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