OS X :: Accidently Deleted My Trash Folder - How To Recover It
Jul 30, 2009
i couldn't delete a file from my trash can, so i followed a link i found in a thread where some one had the same problem as i did, in the link i found a guide that said i should go to terminal and enter "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash" so i did, and yea my trash can was now empty, but then i tried to delete a file by dragin' it into my trash can in the dock, my macbook now tells me that the file will be deleted INSTANT, i search the internet again and found out that my problem was that the command i intered in terminal (sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash) deleted my trash directory
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Apr 17, 2012
Can I recover deleted emails from an empty trash folder?
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MacBook Pro
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Jan 6, 2011
I had a folder in my bookmarks in safari and I deleted the whole thing by accident, is there any way to retrieve it?
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May 30, 2012
I have Microsoft Word for Mac on my Macbook. My husband deleted a folder with my word documents and he has already deleted the trash folder. Can I recover the folder? How do I recover my deleted files?
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MacBook Pro
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Aug 4, 2010
I accidentally deleted my Quickens files and Emptied the Trash. Now I'm trying to recover it using Data Rescue II, I found the folder Documents/Quicken, but there is just one file. When I recover it, Quicken program won't open it - Can't load the file.
Where else could Quicken files be? I'm looking for .qdfm file format, but still can't find anything else.
Could somebody advise what else I could try to find those deleted files?
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Nov 18, 2009
is there any possiblity to recover the deleted items from trash
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Feb 9, 2012
i deleted iphoto from my desktop and also emptied the trash bin, i wanted to know if there is a way i can recover that file back?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 21, 2012
how to recover deleted files in trash, recover deleted files in trash?
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Jun 26, 2012
can I recover a file deleted from my trash, in my mac book pro?
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Jun 30, 2012
I accidentally deleted files from the trash can, is there any way for me to recover those files?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Nov 27, 2009
i just got my macbook about a month ago and today i tried to do some customizing things with icons and i found the "trash empty" icon and accidentally deleted it and emptied the trash... so i only have the "trash full icon" and i cant find the "trash empty" icon
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Sep 21, 2009
I recently deleted and threw out the trash a folder on my Macbook titled "untitled". I didn't think it was anything important so I put it in the trash and emptied it. This was a few days ago. My wife today is asking me for that folder. It contained some pictures.
Can I recover them?
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Dec 27, 2009
I just wanted to rename an account ,then I made a new one according to the tips,but I forgot to drag the content to the new named one and accidentally choose to delete the home folder in account pane.operating in root account,er why the deleted folder not in the trash ,almost 100g lost ,any good idea to recover it?using a software named stellar phoenix scanning and recovering. Operating in Leopard
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Dec 2, 2009
yesterday trying to juice a bit to much my space through cleanmymac i accidentally erased all the option languages in all my applications except english(I speak primarily spanish and use that language of pc/mac use).When i say apps i mean all, like aperture,iworks,ilife,photoshop
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Mar 23, 2010
I was not paying attention & was trying to open the applications folder & it disappeared! Then I tried to bring it from the finder folder to the dock and POOF! It is gone, AGAIN! I have no idea what to do. How to I recover the applications?
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Apr 14, 2010
Stupid I know, but I saw my 'home' file was named root and for some reason thought it should be Home so I tried to change it.Meanwhile about half an hour later I had a power cut. On rebooting the computer, it logs me in to a default user with default settings.I know many people have done this before and I've been searching the net all day trying to do everything they say. The main difference is, the name wasn't changed and is still root therefore there is no 'old' file somewhere called home with all my files in that I can just swap over or change the name back to what it was before as most people seem to have been able to do.
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May 25, 2010
On my MacBook, when I delete a file in the Downloads folder, it says that it will go immediately and for some reason it doesn't go to Trash. On my iMac, the behaviour is as I expect, it goes to Trash and I can undo it. Is there a way to change it on the MacBook so it goes to Trash? I'm using 10.6.3.
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Sep 6, 2010
I accidentally deleted Terminal out of my new macbook. I looked for it on the rom that came with the machine, but found little. How do I reinstall it?
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Jul 24, 2009
Either I accidently deleted an email in my apple mail inbox or my computer deleted it (because it was in my inbox for several months) but now I can no longer find this important email. Though, I do have time machine running always, so I was wondering if the email had been saved to anywhere on the hard drive where time machine may still have it.
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Mar 28, 2012
How to retrieve emails from last year, that I deleted from 'trash' in my mail folder?
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Jan 16, 2010
I have somehow deleted my Download folder in my Finder. I cannot find it in Trash - can someone advise me how to restore this? I am using Mac OS X
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Jun 7, 2008
i accidently deleted all of my fonts on my iMac and i really don't know what to do now...how can i atleast get the default leopard ones back?
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May 5, 2012
how do i recover files from trash after trash is emptied?'
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 18, 2010
I have a MacPro (Intel), and I had my Music folder on a second (non-boot) internal drive. That drive was getting full, so I bought yet another internal drive to put in one of the other bays, thinking to copy the folders to the new, larger-capacity drive. So I bought a 2 Tb drive and transferred all my MOVIES to the new drive, but then went back and deleted my MUSIC folder and emptied the trash. I knew immediately that I'd made a mistake.
I haven't written anything to that drive whatsoever from that moment on, so absolutely nothing should have been over-written. I have plenty of room on the new drive to which I can recover the deleted files. Unfortunately the folder/directory was very large, with over 20,000 files, mostly of podcasts/spoken word stuff, much of which is no longer available or would represent thousands of hours of download time, plus all my digitized folk music from long out-of-print LP records.
You'd think I'd be more responsible with >600 Gb of data! However, fortunately the drive is in good working order, it just requires a good recovery strategy. I know that services that do recovery charge a fortune, and because I haven't written anything to that drive and it still mounts without problems, I'm hoping I can do this myself with a good data recovery software package. Because I am talking about literally thousands of files, it is just too painful to think about editing all the metadata about each file (name, artist, album, etc.), and ideally I would like to recover the files and the file structure so podcasts are recovered as such, etc.
Is this at all possible?
If so, what are the relative merits of File Salvage vs. Data Rescue vs. Kernel for Macintosh (Nucleus Data Recovery) vs. VirtualLab Data Recovery vs. Stellar Phoenix? Is there something better than these--these are the only ones I found on a Web search. Are there any head-to-head reviews of which someone is aware?
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Sep 8, 2009
I'm an idiot, pleased to meet you.I had 2 external drives connected to my Macbook Pro, both had time machine back ups on...I meant to delete one of these but deleted the wrong one, and dragged it into Trash. On realising my mistake I tried to drag it back out of Trash, as you would normally but after "preparing to copy" for four hours it told me the drive was full...It's a 500gb drive, and the Time Machine back up is the only thing on it, so presumably it's just trying to copy itself when the back up is still present on the drive, albeit in the Trash.
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Dec 24, 2008
Last night I deleted an account in Leopard (10.5.5) Mail. I backed up all the messages in the account's inbox, but I stupidly forgot to back up the messages in the sent folder. Is there a way I can recover these messages?
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Jun 10, 2009
My boss accidentally deleted all the messages in his inbox in Apple Mail and since it syncs with the server (mediatemple), they're all gone from the webmail too. Is there anyway to recover these files? I sent a support request to mediatemple to see if they have backups that they can recover too.
We have a tape backup system here at work that backs up his user account. Would there be a specific file to look for that might contain the old messages?
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Jul 4, 2010
instead of deleting duplicates of my Voicememo because it seemed too complicated, I just lost patience and deleted them all by deleting all files ending in .m4a, but that included all music that came from CDs. How can I bring them back?
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Oct 17, 2010
As I was trying to install Arch Linux on my Mac (dual-booting), I accidentally deleted my Mac partition! To add insult to injury, the version of linux I downloaded was the wrong one, so I couldn't even have that. I reintalled Mac 10.5 (I have the 10.6 cd, just haven't reinstalled that one yet), and now I want desperately to recover from the old partition.
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Jun 26, 2007
I recently deleted all my Garageband files and emptied the trash by mistake, and I spent ALL YESTERDAY trying to find software to recover it. I spent $100 for Data Rescue 2, which I thought would work, but after talking to their customer service i was informed that DR2 is incapable of recovering "packaged files", hence Garageband. Please i need these files more than anything! Does anybody know of any other program that can recover my Garageband files??
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