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Q: Accidentally Deleted Desktop Folder

Hello, I had accumulated many important files and folders on my desktop and decided to "clean up" my desktop by putting everything into a folder called desktop and moving it to Finder. When I did so, I saw that the file still appeared on my desktop so I put it in the trash thinking that I had transferred everything to Finder but apparently when I did this it deleted it from my computer. I emptied the trash a few weeks after this happened before I realized the problem. There were MANY IMPORTANT files that I kept on my desktop and months of hard work that have disappeared. I did not have Time Machine installed, or a backup to a hard-drive. Please, let me know if there is any way that I can recover my folder full of files even though I have "permanently deleted" them??

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), File Recovery

Posted on Feb 2, 2016 7:12 AM

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