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Free software to recover files deleted from trash
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1813368" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>The main problem in trying to recover something that's been trashed is that the space on the hard drive occupied by that data has been flagged as available to the system for use to write new data. So if one continues to use their Mac for a while after trashing something, eventually it will be written over and become entirely unrecoverable.</p><p></p><p>A failing hard drive doesn't have this problem, but it may have a different sort of problem, where the directory becomes damaged and files can't be easily identified. In that case the files can still likely be recovered, but they may appear to be generic once recovered, and so it might take a lot of work to identify the recovered files.</p><p></p><p>That's all why it's much preferable to have a recent backup to recover from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1813368, member: 190607"] The main problem in trying to recover something that's been trashed is that the space on the hard drive occupied by that data has been flagged as available to the system for use to write new data. So if one continues to use their Mac for a while after trashing something, eventually it will be written over and become entirely unrecoverable. A failing hard drive doesn't have this problem, but it may have a different sort of problem, where the directory becomes damaged and files can't be easily identified. In that case the files can still likely be recovered, but they may appear to be generic once recovered, and so it might take a lot of work to identify the recovered files. That's all why it's much preferable to have a recent backup to recover from. [/QUOTE]
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