On the left-hand side, we see a photo.
And sadly, this was--
my daughter said that they were going out
to recess, so everything was lined up up these stairs.
But when we look at this, do you see how it's in CPLAssets?
What does that mean?
Cloud photo library asset--
this photo is syncing to cloud.
So if you find information like this, even if I delete this,
will it ever be deleted for cloud?
How long is it going to exist there?
We could see the source file.
We could see the location information
for it, when it was taken, the type of device,
the position-- all that information from the photo.
Now, on the right-hand side, when you delete a picture,
it goes into the trash.
So here we can see this one had 24 days left.
This one had 27 days.
We have some that keep counting down.
When it gets down, I think, to five days, it turns red.
What happens if you put a picture in the trash,
and you recover it?
What happens if you select Delete All?
So if you select Delete All, you will get a message saying,
hey, these pictures may still exist for about 30 days.
Guess what-- even after you delete all,
they probably still exist in cloud.
If they don't exist in cloud, if you
have Google Photos enabled--
Google Photos is so grabby at your device.
I will delete pictures, and I look at my Google Photos--
I'm like, jeez.
I deleted that like in two minutes after I took it,
and it's already in Google.
So Google Photos is another place
to look for missing photos.
But what's really crazy is let's say
I took that picture of Sven, and Elmo,
and all those toys going up the stairs and deleted it.
It hits the recycle bin or trash can on my phone.
What happens if I recover it?
This is where this gets really shady.
If I put it in the trash can, it sits there for 15 days.
If I recover it, all the time stamps
go back to what they were.
It does not track that it ever touched
the trash can and came out.
That could be really confusing in your investigation.
If you have photos that still exist in the trash can
at the time of acquisition, you should be able to recover them.