Is there any way to recover information from deleted folders?

[megavolt]

As mentioned already:

My external HD mounts on different folders everytime I restart

That issue is a different topic. Feel free to create a new one. Just for answering the basic questions: No idea what you mean here, but in general there is no such log. In general it is difficult to get files back if even possible. Do always backups! If if you mean your external NTFS Partition on your WD Elements, then sorry. Only Windows can do this. Linux can only read, write and maybe fix simple things on NTFS. But even if it is a linux compatible filesystem it could be rather difficult…

NTFS → only testdisk available, beside it supports more file systems (also EXT2/3/4).
EXT3 → ext3grep
EXT4 → ext4magic

@daedalus

Thankfully the files themselves are not needed anymore, but I do need to know what was in it

What kind of files/folders are these?
What program access it?
What have you done?
Maybe you unplug the USB HDD while it was syncing the files to the disk in the background?

Anyway… it is bad idea to use a NTFS Partition for backups in Linux, likewise Ext4 in Windows. For exchange between systems, why not, but not for backups.