In my mac, whenever I erase an element it asks me my password, and then the trash appears to be empty, so I assume I cannot recover these files. For accident I deleted a file that I did not want to, what can I do to recover it?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7)
You can go to the Finder menu/Preferences/advanced and make sure that secure empty trash is not checked, if it is not checked, then you will usuallly get a prompt to empty trash securely, and have to enter your admin psswd.
If you do a secure empty, it is gone. You can do a web search for recovery software which may, or may not work. (such as disk warrior, etc..) but it is expensive, and may not work, you can also try a data recovery service, which will be even more expensive. It all depends on how "valuable" the data that you deleted is.
Best of luck
You can go to the Finder menu/Preferences/advanced and make sure that secure empty trash is not checked, if it is not checked, then you will usuallly get a prompt to empty trash securely, and have to enter your admin psswd.
If you do a secure empty, it is gone. You can do a web search for recovery software which may, or may not work. (such as disk warrior, etc..) but it is expensive, and may not work, you can also try a data recovery service, which will be even more expensive. It all depends on how "valuable" the data that you deleted is.
Best of luck
Thanks for your response. If i do not have the secure empty trash checked, how can I recover those files?
Trash configuration
