Claude Code found 214,856 photos and videos I permanently deleted from my Android. Three years of deleted photos and videos still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with storage access can read them. After the iPhone post I plugged my Pixel into the MacBook and asked Claude Code to check for leftover deleted files. It immediately pointed at a folder I had never opened. DCIM/.thumbnails. Over 215,000 files. Photos, videos, screenshots. Every single one was something I deleted. Claude Code said most of them were not listed in the gallery trash or in MediaStore. Photos from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ones I deleted the second after taking them. The ones I cleared from Trash. The ones I deleted three separate times because I wanted to be sure they were gone. All still there. Passport photo I took for a visa application in 2024. Screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible. Private photos I sent someone and immediately deleted after a breakup. Screenshot of my crypt

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Claude Code found 214,856 photos and videos I permanently deleted from my Android. Three years of deleted photos and videos still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with storage access can read them. After the iPhone post I plugged my Pixel into the MacBook and asked Claude Code to check for leftover deleted files. It immediately pointed at a folder I had never opened. DCIM/.thumbnails. Over 215,000 files. Photos, videos, screenshots. Every single one was something I deleted. Claude Code said most of them were not listed in the gallery trash or in MediaStore. Photos from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ones I deleted the second after taking them. The ones I cleared from Trash. The ones I deleted three separate times because I wanted to be sure they were gone. All still there. Passport photo I took for a visa application in 2024. Screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible. Private photos I sent someone and immediately deleted after a breakup. Screenshot of my crypt

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