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Hello everyone,

I'm using Mi 11T Pro and as you may know, my phone told me that it won't support Mi Cloud anymore and I should transfer my files to Google Photos. I transferred my data to Google Photos yesterday but my files were about 160GB whereas my google storage was 100GB.

My Google storage was full and I had still a lot of empty space in my phone (I have a 256GB version) so I wanted to delete photos on videos on my Google Photos. I turned off back up and denied Photos' permission to gallery and then I simply deleted every photo and video in google photos and then also emptied the trash bin.

I thought it'd only delete the files on google photos and the photos/videos in my gallery would remain. However, now I lost many important files (about 100GB of gallery content is deleted) and I want to bring them back. I tried using advanced data recovery tools but they only find the deleted files that are deleted using the gallery app or file explorer, it does not show anything that was deleted using Google Photos.

Now: Photos were on device's own storage until yesterday. I know I cannot bring back the files back on Google Cloud but I'm looking for a way to find the files on the phone itself instead.


Can you please help me. I'd appreciate it a lot.
Thanks