<\/span><\/h3>\r\nThe Recycle Bin in Windows is a special folder where deleted files are temporarily stored to allow for their easy recovery.<\/p>\r\n
To restore a video from the Windows Recycle Bin, follow these steps:<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n\t- Double-click the Recycle Bin<\/b> icon on the desktop.
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<\/li>\r\n\t- Locate the video file you want to restore.<\/li>\r\n\t
- Right-click the file and select Restore<\/b>.
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<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nThe file will be restored back to its original location. You can also drag-and-drop selected files to any location you want, including those located on external storage devices. To do that, open File Explorer, navigate to the preferred recovery location, and move your videos from the Recycle Bin window to the File Explorer window.<\/p>\r\n
Unfortunately, not all deleted files end up in the Recycle Bin. For example, files deleted using the
Shift<\/kbd> + Delete<\/kbd> keyboard shortcut are permanently deleted right away, and so are files stored on a formatted storage device.<\/div>\r\nThat said, there are other video recovery methods that can recover even files that are not present in the Recycle Bin (permanently deleted videos), and we describe them in detail in the following sections of this article.<\/p>\r\n
<\/span>Method 2:<\/span> Recover from a File History Backup<\/span><\/h3>\r\nAfter checking the Recycle Bin, the next place where you should look for deleted videos files is your backup folder or application. Many Windows users rely on the File History feature, whose purpose is to continuously back up files located in your Libraries, on your desktop, in your Contacts folders, and in your Favorites folders.<\/p>\r\n
To recover permanently deleted videos from a File History backup:<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n\t- Open the classic Control Panel<\/b>.<\/li>\r\n\t
- Go to System and Security<\/b> > File History<\/b> > Restore personal files<\/b>.
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<\/li>\r\n\t- Navigate to the location where your video files were stored and go through available backups to see if one of them contains them.<\/li>\r\n\t
- Select the files you want to restore.<\/li>\r\n\t
- Click the green Restore<\/b> button.
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<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nAs you may be aware, File History is just one of many backup solutions for Windows, but it would be beyond the scope of this article to describe all solutions commonly used by Windows users because there are simply too many of them. Just know that different backup incremental applications have different retention policies, so you better hurry up before your backup becomes overwritten with a new one, especially if your backup drive is relatively small.<\/p>\r\n
<\/span>Method 3:<\/span> Use Data Recovery Software to Restore Permanently Deleted Videos<\/span><\/h3>\r\nIf you don\u2019t have a backup to recover from, not all hope is lost just yet! Permanently deleted files often remain physically located on the storage device long after the logical links that make it possible to open them have been removed.<\/p>\r\n
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Let\u2019s go over the most effective ways how to recover deleted videos on Windows. We recommend you try the methods described below in the order they\u2019re listed, but you can, of course, start with the method that seems the most promising to you.<\/p>\r\n