Recovering Files after Emptying the Trash

[TheCoalman]

Does anyone know if you can recover a file or folder after it was emptied from the trash????

thanks

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Originally posted by TheCoalman:
Does anyone know if you can recover a file or folder after it was emptied from the trash????

thanks

Some disk utilities will do that (Norton used to but I stopped using in in OS 9). Maybe disk warrior does, and there is a shareware program that does it, but you have to activate and AFTER THAT you can recover files.

But a commercial prog. like Disk Warrior should do the trick. I don't know of any way to do it otherwise and it is not always 100%. It is VERY important to NOT write anything to the disk in question as you can overwrite the very data you want to recover.

Generally, you'll want to go with a solid commercial prog and steer away from shareware as it is going into your directory and messing with your HD...

[TheCoalman]

Thanks, I have both Disk Warrior and Data Rescue X but I cant find any info in either of the manuals for this specific problem....

[qo]

If you have Data Rescue X, read this:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/datarecovery.html

But, realize that OSX is constantly writing to the system disk. So, even if you haven't written anything to the disk yourself, your files could still be history.

[midiw]

Thanks, I have both Disk Warrior

DiskWarrior JUST repairs the OS X directories.

It is just a one trick pony!