Anon finally gets a gf

Take the opportunity to grow up and leave a bad habit behind. Then find a new girlfriend who will respect your boundaries and won’t fuck with your computer.

Yea, Windows has had (real) separate user logins since XP (well, NT3.51,but no consumer used that).
No one gets my password, I'll create a separate account for you.
- This is Lemmy, you find that anon and tell them they need to be using GNU/Linux!
- NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 both had real logins, and they both had workstation versions.

Fake: OP uploaded a Pepe with the post, so his Pepes are not gone.

Gay: He’s more interested in a male frog than in a girlfriend.

And this is why you need a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

This is not a real interaction. Dude is basically saying "hey guys, imagine if I got a girlfriend, and she found out im a 4chan shirposter... that'd be sweet... no wait I did get a girlfriend... Envy me nerds!"

Wait, so it's fake?
Damn, that's so gay
Nothing gets past you

Real talk, if you want the actual data recovery perspective

If your system is on an SSD, first thing is you've got about 10 minutes (or less) to shutdown and use a recovery program before TRIM comes and irrecoverably deletes it. (Not applicable to all systems, some have slower TRIM timing, some faster, some instant and some not enabled at all (Sounds preposterous now, but it was an issue for a hot minute, so old systems might still be affected))

If HDD, just don't start writing to disk a bunch of shit and you can grab a cup of coffee before shutting down

From there, you need to remove the disk and have an adapter for it to USB or another system DURING ANY DATA RECOVERY, ALWAYS WORK FROM AN IMAGE, NOT THE DRIVE ITSELF (Especially for "iffy" drives (If you know that it is damaged in some way, or you just can't afford it and won't soon, please get with a professional service. With data recovery from potentially damaged drives, you might get one shot to get a good image and it's done for).

Once you have your image, there's a bunch of different recovery software you can use. My personal favorite and go-to is R-Studio. It's well worth the $50, but you can sail the high seas for it as well. But you'll need to take some time to get used to it, it's not...the most user friendly out there lmao.

If you need something user friendly, try Recuva or Disk Drill. Just do NOT waste your money with shovelware like anything made by Wondershare.

Alternatively, if you follow good backup practices, just grab the pepe folder from your latest backup. Nobody ever seems to do that though, at least until they experience their first major data loss.
I'm glad you were here to fulfill the Lemmy tech comment expectations so I didn't have to
Additional comments:
Some HDDs also have TRIM, albeit rarely. CrystalDiskInfo will list it if it does.
R-Photo is free from what I've seen, and would work well in this situation due to the folder just consisting of photos.
AFAIK Disk Drill is free up to 500mb recovered

Fake and gay

Thank her for curbing your self destructive hobby

She has a point

What about the good ol "school" or "learning" folder?

Did she shift+delete?

A girl that'll make his parents proud.

Anon fell for the classic blunder and got jebaited