CCleaner Wiped Out My MacBook Pro
This might be a far-reaching question, but I thought I would try. I used CCleaner to 'delete duplicates' on my MacBook Pro and it basically wiped everything out. I DO NOT USE iCloud. I purchased a couple of recovery softwares, and managed to retrieve things, and have a backup from a year ago but I do not know how to sync up the recovered files to my photo files. I am noticing ALL the photos are still on my iPhone too in memories. Any suggestions about how I can do this? When I turn on Photos on the laptop, it has records of all the photos - but they are not visible since the files were deleted by this stupid cleaner (no their tech support was not helpful to Mac people!).
Does this make sense? Any suggestions?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.0