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Restore Previous Versions of Deleted Pictures on Your Computer


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    Pull up the Start Menu and select "Computer" to locate the folder that contained the picture files you want to recover. Be sure that it is the folder where the files were actually saved, rather than a library.
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    Right-click on the designated folder and, in the pop-up menu, select "Restore previous versions." If your files were in a folder located in a drive, such as C:\, then select "Restore previous versions" by right clicking on that particular drive.
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    Review the list of previous versions of the folder or files within this folder/drive. Determine the most recent previous version of the picture files, or the folder containing them, that you want to restore and double-click on it.
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    Move the deleted picture files or folder containing them to a new location on your computer, by clicking and dragging them to that location in the access menu on the left side of the "Computer" window. Ideal locations for the new save might be a new folder, the desktop or an external hard drive.