How to Recover Deleted Files from Emptied Trash on Mac OS X?

I accidentally deleted all my music, thinking they were duplicates, and then emptied my trash. I know it says it can’t be undone, but is there ANY WAY I can get my music back?

What You Should Know Firstly

Before starting recovering trash on Mac OS X, you need to take a few minutes to read the following paragraph carefully since it is quite useful and important.

As we all known, Trash, equivalent to the Windows recycle bin, is used to temporarily store deleted files on Mac OS X. Emptying Trash is one of the common methods that many Mac users adopt to speed up their computer. To empty Trash, just click and hold on the trash icon in the Dock and choose “Empty Trash” from the menu that appears. But what you should keep in mind is that the items that are deleted from Trash are unrecoverable unless you get a tool to recover them, so please use Empty Trash with great caution. Not only that, you’d better to stop using the Mac immediately if you still need to recover the deleted data from Trash. This way will prevent the file from being overwritten.

To recover emptied Trash on Mac OS X, you can hardly do without the help of Trash Recovery for Mac. With this professional yet easy-to-use utility, it becomes true to recover all “physically existing” files in many formats like MP4, MKV, MOV, M4A, MP3, JPG, PNG, PDF, DOC, DOCX, ZIP, PAGES, EMAIL, EML, and so on. Get Trash Recovery for Mac by clicking “Try for Mac” button and run it to start recover deleted files from Trash on Mac OS X.

How to Recover Trash Mac?

Step 1 Select the deleted Trash files recovering mode. There are four modes to choose and they are: Lost File Recovery, Raw Data Recovery, Partition Recovery and Resume Recovery. Among them the first election is Lost File Recovery which can restore the deleted files from Mac trash within a few minutes. If it fails to retrieve data for you, just turn to “Raw Recovery”, with which, you can recover all your deleted files, but the shortcoming is the whole process needs more time.

Step 2 Find the emptied Trash files. Click “Lost File Recovery” and a window will pop up. In this window, you first need to choose the drive where your files are deleted and then hit “Scan” button to find out lost date.

When the program stops scanning, you will see all recoverable files with the original path list on the right of the main interface of the Trash Recovery for Mac. Clearly, the removed files from Trash load in Trash folder on the left.

Step 3 Preview Files before recovery. In this step, you can certainly tell if the file is the one that you want to recover.

Step 4 Recover Trash Mac. When you find the deleted file from Trash on Mac OS X, check it and click “Recover” button on the top to restore it. If you want to recover more than one file, just check the boxes before the files that you are desire to retrieve.

Remember: save the restore files to a different place rather that the same on where you deleted them, otherwise the files will be overwritten.

Conclusion

Your emptied Trash files are rescued by such a powerful tool and this detailed guide. If it doesn’t work for you, that’s because your deleted files are overwritten for your new files’ storage. In order to prevent this data loss thing from happening again, please check the Trash carefully before you empty it.