Recovering photos - EMERGENCY!!!

pennypincher2013

I was organising photos, moving them into appropriate folders. Popped up that file has same same, do I want to replace these files, I stupidly clicked that instead of skip these files, not realising there were photos with the same name. So the latter photos have replaced those with the same name.
Is there a way I can get these photos back? This is an emergency. Please help!!!
p.s. I have windows 8.1

pramsay13

Are you using Windows?

Have you had a look in the recycle bin?

pennypincher2013

pramsay13 wrote: »

Are you using Windows?

Have you had a look in the recycle bin?

Nothing in the recycle bin. The photos were saved over with photos with the same name. Not deleted in a recycle bin kinda way. But thank you for trying.

Farway

Do you know format? I assume .jpg

A wild shot but try & search for .jpg and assuming your normal pics are in normal folders any that are not could be the missing ones?

pennypincher2013

Farway wrote: »

Do you know format? I assume .jpg

A wild shot but try & search for .jpg and assuming your normal pics are in normal folders any that are not could be the missing ones?

Thanks but no sign of them.

neilmcl

Not sure if this will work but worth a shot. Go to the folder in Windows Explorer and right-click anywhere inside the folder and select Properties. Then look at the Previous Versions tab to see if there are older versions of the folder and files available.

dan958

Try recovery software such as Recuva

charlotte1994

Were they in another folder on your PC? You might be able to take your computer "back in time" and the files should be there! Just take it back to yesterday. You will lose any new files you have created since, though. Careful with this, though

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-system-restore/

pennypincher2013

neilmcl wrote: »

Not sure if this will work but worth a shot. Go to the folder in Windows Explorer and right-click anywhere inside the folder and select Properties. Then look at the Previous Versions tab to see if there are older versions of the folder and files available.

I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly. I am in the folder in question, right click properties and the closest thing I can see is under customise tab and a restore default button.

pennypincher2013

dan958 wrote: »

Try recovery software such as Recuva

I had a try of this and it found nothing.

pennypincher2013

charlotte1994 wrote: »

Were they in another folder on your PC? You might be able to take your computer "back in time" and the files should be there! Just take it back to yesterday. You will lose any new files you have created since, though. Careful with this, though

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-system-restore/

This sounds scary. Why should I be careful with this? I will have a try.