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<blockquote data-quote="naanod" data-source="post: 1821918" data-attributes="member: 402813">Hello all,Long story short, I backed up my mom's iPhone photos onto her macbook and thought it would be okay to delete them from her phone once I saw them pop up on her Mac.&nbsp; I thought it would work just fine since that's how I have mine setup, but apparently her's is setup differently with iCloud.&nbsp; When I turned her macbook on a week later, all the old photos were on there, but as soon as I connected to the WIFI to backup the new ones, over 5000 photos disappeared within seconds and were replaced by a few hundred of the new ones.&nbsp; I tried to stop the process and export everything out that hadn't disappeared yet, but Photos said it needed to connect to the internet to get the full resolution.&nbsp; I didn't think straight and connected to the internet again.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now all her old photos are gone and Photos Libary.photoslibrary went from a 20 gig file to a 1 gig. My original plan was to do a time machine backup just in case something like this happened, but I just assumed it wouldn't.&nbsp;&nbsp; I thought that since &quot;Download originals to this Mac&quot; was ticked in the iCloud settings it would work right. That's what I get for being impulsive and not taking the extra precaution.&nbsp;&nbsp; Is there anyway to still recover these photos? =(</blockquote>

[QUOTE="naanod, post: 1821918, member: 402813"] Hello all, Long story short, I backed up my mom's iPhone photos onto her macbook and thought it would be okay to delete them from her phone once I saw them pop up on her Mac. I thought it would work just fine since that's how I have mine setup, but apparently her's is setup differently with iCloud. When I turned her macbook on a week later, all the old photos were on there, but as soon as I connected to the WIFI to backup the new ones, over 5000 photos disappeared within seconds and were replaced by a few hundred of the new ones. I tried to stop the process and export everything out that hadn't disappeared yet, but Photos said it needed to connect to the internet to get the full resolution. I didn't think straight and connected to the internet again. Now all her old photos are gone and Photos Libary.photoslibrary went from a 20 gig file to a 1 gig. My original plan was to do a time machine backup just in case something like this happened, but I just assumed it wouldn't. I thought that since "Download originals to this Mac" was ticked in the iCloud settings it would work right. That's what I get for being impulsive and not taking the extra precaution. Is there anyway to still recover these photos? =( [/QUOTE]

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