Photos Accidentally Put in Recycling Bin But Don't Show Up There

[Mt Spokane Photography]

I use Lightroom to import my images from a card reader.  Lightroom never deletes the files from your card.  you have the options in the Windows 7 image impoort set to delete files from the card, and thats what it does.
1.  Use a card reader.
2.  Set the import options so that files are not deleted after they are imported.
3.  Format the card in camera when you have the files safely imported and backed up. 
 
BTW, Lightroom, and many other photo editors will also make a second copy of the original file and put it in the backup location (NAS, Network Location, external drive, etc) at the same time the file is copied to your working file directory.
You need to use a card reader to recover your files, Its doubtful that you can do it from the camera link.
 
 
 
 

[colin1984]

Deleted file´s are still alive as long as you don´t make or save other pictures on that drive,

What i would do is

Put it in Card Reader

Format Drive

Run Recovery Program ( I use File Scavenger)

Make a Long Search and select No display deleted file´s also

The Program find 99,9% of Images (for me)

only Manko is that deleted files maybe shown as Unknown but Meta Data are ok.

I restored many cards for customer´s who bought one in a shop where I worked, and accidently delete the pictures or format the card, and the customers was very thankfully.

I found it because my HDD crashed once and erverything from 800GB was blast but HDD worked, so I format it and scaned it and restored 800GB of Images and my personal backup. 

[JPAZ]

DO NOT FORMAT!!!!
Before taking this step, I concur in getting a card reader and then seeing if any of a number of recovery software programs will find the images. 
Once you format the card, the chances of recovery go down, so only do this if the above mentioned steps do not work.
I have been successful in recovering images of a corrupted CF card with Rescue Pro in the past, but there are many equivalent programs available out there.
And (would of, could of, should of), in the future, I'd copy and paste the images from the card to the computer using a card reader.  Once I verified the images were on the computer, then, and only then, would I delete the images from the card.  This is a belt and suspenders approach but it is easy to copy the files again if they are still easily available on the card.

[colin1984]

Why not format?? I´ll learning

It doesn´t change anything, If i scan a deleted card or a formated Card Away is away, but as long as you don´t rewrite the card (put new images on it) you can find them, neither format or not.

[markwilliams279]

If you are not able to see your photos in the recycle bin then need not to worry. Go for online tools that helps to recover lost photos and video files.