Recover Accidently Deleted File after using RM -RF

Without a backup, you're going to lose quite a bit of data. You need to be extremely careful if you don't know exactly what you're doing at the command line, as you've discovered.

Let file salvage run and see what it can recover for you. The only other real option besides another commercial file recovery program (I have no reason to believe one is better than any other) is to shut off the machine and send it out to a professional data recovery service. Be prepared for a bill in the thousands, though, and no guarantee of recovered data.

You should never issue the commands you did. Do not chain together a change directory command then do a delete via the command separator ;.

cd ~/.Trash
  pwd
  ls -l
  # then delete files.

A better way would have been to do the delete from finder.

# Show hidden files & folders in finder

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE ;killall Finder

# Normal display. Hide hidden files & folders in finder

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE ;killall Finder

I was too harsh in he prior post. Stuff happens.

I feel for you. I had a harddrive crash in day. Partial backup.

R