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How to Recover Deleted Files Before Emptying Trash Bin on Mac OS X/macOS

Hello,

All the questions around this topic is related to those who deleted files and also emptied the trash bin.

there are several hundreds of photos and files deleted accidentally, but i didn't empty the trash bin, i want to recover them back to their original folders... i all the great www i didn't find an answer, i only found 3rd party softwares to do that... is there an option to do that with mac built in tools, like the simple ancient "Restore File" option in windows operating systems?


Thank You.

Dror

MacBook Pro 13”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 12, 2020 10:53 PM

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Posted on Aug 13, 2020 11:21 AM

The usual method is to recover them from a Time Machine backup: Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac.

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How to Recover Deleted Files Before Emptying Trash Bin on Mac OS X/macOS

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