Undeleting items?

I deleted something by mistake on 10.6.8. It's still there in Trash but how do I find it? I can only see how to remove trash, not how to retrieve an item from trash.

peterbj7 said:

I deleted something by mistake on 10.6.8. It's still there in Trash but how do I find it? I can only see how to remove trash, not how to retrieve an item from trash.

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Single click the Trash Can icon in the dock...then drag the item you want undeleted out of the "Trash Can Window".

- Nick

Or, right click on it in the trash and then select "Put Back."

Thank you (to Nick)! It was very strange. I was looking at the contents of an external disk and I noticed that this file appeared twice, absolutely identical in all respects. I selected one of them and deleted it and they both disappeared. When I went to Trash just now I found two copies of the same file, just as had inadvertently been deleted. I undeleted one and the other went with it, though at the destination location only one copy now appears. I have no idea what's going on!

peterbj7 said:

I undeleted one and the other went with it, though at the destination location only one copy now appears.

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I'm assuming the most important part is you got your file back before permanently deleting it.

- Nick

It is indeed Nick, thank you! I don't know why I didn't think of the bar at the bottom - I'm so used to the way Windows does things.