You may have the case where the recycle bin can is automatically being emptied.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/recycle-bin-randomly-empties-to-desktop/03be7524-1dd2-48b1-8b94-8b1fc9287ebb
Here are some programs which might help you: The 21 Best Free Data Recovery Software Tools of 2024
They say nothing ever disappears on the Internet. This is somewhat true for Windows and other operating systems as well.
Over the years, I’ve experienced various issues with the Recycle Bin (previously called the Trash Can in older Windows versions). It took Microsoft a while to implement a proper file recovery system. Initially, when you deleted a file, Windows just changed the filename, making recovery difficult because part of the name was erased.
I suggested to Microsoft in the 90s to simply toggle the first character of the filename (e.g., change “ABCDE.EXE” to “aBCDE.EXE”), making it easier to restore. Instead, they set the first character to NULL, making it hard to identify the original name. Recovery programs required users to rename files manually, even though the data remained on the disk until overwritten.
HP mainframes used a different approach, marking files as deleted via a bit in the file label, making recovery straightforward by just unsetting the bit. This method preserved the file until the system needed the space, avoiding partial deletions.
Nowadays, Windows has improved this process. You can restore files from the Recycle Bin, which stores deleted files in a $RECYCLE.BIN folder on each drive. The system displays the contents of these folders and permanently deletes the file information when you empty the Recycle Bin.
MS creates space on each drive for the $RECYCLE BIN and for saving disk recovery information. You can adjust how much space is used for that in the SYSTEMS setting. That space also allows you to use SYSTEM RECOVERY on the computer and go back to pevious states before some files were modified or lost.
For recovering deleted files, I recommend trying file recovery programs that scan the drive for file labels.