Recover Emptied Trash (Less than five minutes have gone by...)

Hi all

I was cleaning up some Downloads folder files and threw about 100 items in the Trash. As soon as I was finished, I emptied Trash and, as soon as the progress bar appeared, I realized that I had a website mock-up that I accidentally saved in a Downloads subfolder. It's been about three minutes since I made this error.

I know that OSX doesn't really delete the file but rather redirects the information to be written over. Is there a way to help Mac "remember" where that one file is?

I'd like to avoid costly software as I am great at backing things up and will need to do this only once. I just wasn't paying attention like I should have been (pre-coffee).

Thanks for any help. I really appreciate it.

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os...61-recovering-files-i-just-emptied-trash.html

Great. If anyone needs me, I'll be huffing spray paint from a brown paper sack.

bagofrainbows said:

I'd like to avoid costly software as I am great at backing things up and will need to do this only once.

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Sorry. There's not a button to push or click that will bring those back. You do need expensive recovery software.