Recover a file from trash

Not unless you have captured it on a regular Time Machine backup, and can restore it from a timeframe prior to its journey to the Trash. Once you empty the Trash, the operating system sees those former storage locations previously consumed by the folder and its contents as reusable storage — and will write new content into those locations.

If you were to stop using your Mac, and pay for third-party, file retrieval software, you might be able to recover none, some, or all of that folder content in that order of likelyhood.

Hi - further to above, do you recommend a third party file retrieval software that I could use. I have the same problem however, the file also seems to have disappeared from my time machine.