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Q: Aperture deleted.  Have tried 4 Recovery programs.  Is there anything else I can try?

Hi!  If anyone can throw me a life line, I'll be super grateful.  Long story short... Hubby trashed Aperture from Finder window, took back out of Trash but didn't know that links to masters would be severed by this mistake.  I cleared Trash.  Computer shut down.  Issue not noticed for a week or so.  I've run Photorec, and had a local shop run Data Rescue 3(plus Renee plus a Wondershare one).  Almost nothing was recovered.  I've lost  most of our family pictures from the last two years, since the last time I did a data backup.  It still makes me really upset to think about it. I feel like such a fool for not running backups regularly, but I can't change that now.  So the question is, is there anything else I can do?   Anything that doesn't cost thousands of dollars and lose me my working computer?  Thanks in advance, and if there's nothing else, maybe I can spare someone my heartache.  Aperture stores files differently from iPhoto, and *there's NO WARNING if you accidentally drag the icon to the Trash with other files*!  The link between the library and the Masters is severed, and you need to do damage control immediately.  I know I should have kept up with Time Machine, and I just learned about the Vault system, but I'm a busy mom, and you fill the day with the right priorities the best you can, and the end of the day, I didn't get around to it a thousand times.  Please Apple, if you read this, find a way to flash a warning on that one.  20,000-odd masters deleted with one mistake.  No warning.  Again, thanks in advance for any advice.         

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 19, 2014 12:05 AM

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