Undelete Trash on Mac: Recover Files Emptied from Trash

 

September 5, 2013 10:29 am / Posted by Bill Smith to Data Recovery Tips
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Trash is a place to save deleted files temporarily, if you happen to delete important files, you can recover them from the Trash easily. But, if you delete files and empty the trash immediately, chances are that your important files disappear after you click the "Empty the Trash". But are they really gone forever? Is there any way to undelete files on mac? Sure there is.

In fact, the files that you deleted or removed from Trash are not deleted physically from your Mac hard drive, they are still there but hidden and inaccessible to general users. The space they occupy are free to new files, which means when new files are added, they may be erased and gone forever then. So, when you find you mistakenly delete files, stop adding new files to your hard drive at once and do a recovery as soon as possible. To do this job, iOrgsoft Data Recovery Mac (Data Recovery) is your ideal tool. This program can scan all files that physically exist on the drive and allow you to preview images, documents etc. before your recover them. Lots of files are supported to recover including MOV, MP4, M4V, 3GP, M4A, MP3, PNG, JPG, DOCX, PAGES, NUMBERS, ZIP, RAR, and many more.

How to Undelete Trash on Mac (Mountain Lion)

Choose a file recovery mode

Download and install iOrgsoft Trash Recovery Mac (for security, you'd better install it on an external drive), run it. Choose the Lost Data Recovery Mode to try first. In this mode, the file recovery app will scan your drive quickly to find deleted files. If this mode cannot find the files you need, try the second mode Raw Recovery, this mode will scan your drive completely.

Scan file deleted from Trash

In the window that appears next, select the drive where you want to undelete trash files, and then hit the Scan button on the top to scan the deleted files. Anytime you find the files you want, you can stop scanning.

Preview and undelete Trash files on Mac

After a moment, all the recoverable files will come to the folders on the left panel. The Trash files will be shown under Trash folder. You can preview images and documents before recovering them. To recover undelete files emptied from trash, just click the box before the thumbnail then press the Recovery button on the Top and set a path to save the recovered files, hit OK. Soon you will see the files back to your Mac.