Problem: My girlfriend once saved some of her important files for nursing school in the trash, and I unknowingly emptied the trash. I can not restore files that were moved to trash. I tried time machine, but it did not work. Then any good opinion on how to recover deleted files on Mac OS X 10.6.8?

 

We may accidentally delete our important documents, pictures, movies, music files by “Command+Delete”. Or sometime we desperately need to get back the files that we deleted by clicking “Empty Trash”. Is that possible? The answer is absolutely “YES”.

 

Why? Because when you empty trash bin on Mac, the data seems disappeared from your Mac but the fact is that you just erased the hard drive’s directory entries, not the files themselves. The space occupied by the files has been returned to the system as available for storage, the files are still on the drive. So restore data on Mac is possible but you must not allow any additional writes to the hard drive.

 

How to Recover Deleted Files from Trash on Mac OS X 10.6.8

 

For recovering files from empty trash on Mac, you have to rely on data recovery application. Here we use MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, which is an easy data recovery program for all Mac users. It enables you to retrieve deleted photos, documents, audios, and videos from Mac. And the program has user-friendly interface and you can perform data recovery with just a few clicks.

 

Note: Writing to the drive will then eventually overwrite the space once occupied by the deleted files in which case the files are lost permanently. If you continue using your Mac computer, every hour that goes by, you significantly increase the risk that the files you want to recover will be overwritten and lost forever. So that is why we highly recommended to stop using your Mac if you want to undo “Empty Trash” on Mac OS.

 

OK! Let’s start the restoration on Mac OS X 10.6.8 with downloading the software.