Data recovery after automator overwrote my desktop

[lelotortelli]

Hi there! Yesterday I was trying to automate a couple of tasks. I'm apartment hunting so I wanted to download all images from a certain pages. To do so, I selected the task "SAVE IMAGENS FROM WEB CONTENT" on automator. I use the following set up:
- Save images on folder: "XXX"
- Use URL as folder's name: "unselected"
- Where: "Desktop"
- Overwrite existing folder "unselected"

To my surprise, when I ran the workflow the first time, it ERASED all my desktop (there weren't many important things, EXPECT FOR 1 freakin file) and kept the newly created folder "XXX".

Is there any chance I can get all my previous files back?? (My last backup is from 7 days ago and that file is very recent).

 

[chscag]

How important is that one file? Data recovery software is generally expensive to buy and most do have a trial version that you can test with.

Data Rescue 3 is generally considered the best at data recovery.

Disk Drill is also very good.