Files and directories in Downloads directory missing after accidentally removing thumb drive
Hi, I plugged in my Toshiba USB thumb drive into my Macbook Pro.
And then from the downloads directory, I copied several files and directories.
And then pasted with the Option button.
That is, I moved the files to the USB drive. But as I was in a hurry, I accidentally removed the USB drive!
Now I there are files in the Toshiba drive that are greyed out and have size 0 bytes.
And the original files and directories in the Mac are gone!
Should not Mac OS store these files someone in cache. And only when the files are successfully moved, remove them from the Mac?
How can I recover my files and directories?