Deleted files from your Mac OS X hard drive? Did you empty the Trash Bin? Later you recognized the significance of the deleted files, but unable to get them back, this is a common mistake made by any Mac user, which causes serious file loss situations.
Stop using your Mac machine right away after occurrence of the file loss. Continuous use of the Mac machine decreases the chances of file recovery. Keep the following things in mind while trying to recover deleted files Mac:
- If the files are deleted and Trash Bin is not emptied, you can restore the files out of Trash to its original location.
- If you have emptied Trash Bin folder after the files are deleted, it needs third-party recovery tools to recover those files.
- If the Trash Bin is emptied using the “Secure Empty Trash” option in Mac OS X 10.3 and later versions, the files cannot recovered.
- When you click ‘Empty Trash’ option, Mac OS X simply removes directory entries of those files on the hard drive, instead of the actual files.
- Know that after deletion, the disk space occupied by those deleted files, is marked as available and can be used by other newly created files. You can restore deleted photos, files and other data until and unless they are being overwritten by other files.
- Avoid using the system. If you continue using the Mac machine after file deletion and emptying Trash Bin, the possibility of file overwriting increases. For guaranteed recovery of missing, lost, and deleted files from Mac OS X hard drive, use third-party Mac disk data recovery application.