Hard Disk Recovery

Q: I deleted some files by mistake, and then mistakenly emptied my Trash! In this situation, what should I do? Can I recover deleted files from emptied Mac Trash?

Overview of Mac Deleted Files Recovery

As we know, if we accidentally deleted some data, we don’t need to feel panic since deleted data would be moved into the Trash. Therefore, we can easily get deleted data back. However, what if we accidentally emptied Trash?

In fact, even if we emptied Trash, these deleted data are still in the Mac hard drive but we cannot see them through a normal way. So, as long as we turn to professional Mac data recovery companies or Mac data recovery software, can easily and quickly recover deleted data after emptying Trash. Here, considering data recovery companies need high recovery fees and cannot ensure data security, we had better use a piece of professional Mac data recovery software, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery. Detailed steps are shown here.

How to Recover Deleted Files from Emptied Mac Trash

Firstly, you need to launch this professional Mac data recovery software to get its main interface as follows.

Now, you can see 4 different data recovery modules, and each of them focuses on different data loss scenario. Here, to recover deleted files after emptying Trash, you can try using “Damaged Partition Recovery”. In general, as long as deleted files are not overwritten by new data, you can recover them with this module.

In this window, select the partition contains lost data and then click “Full Scan” button. After scanning, all found data are listed in the following window in a tree view.

Finally, select all needed files and then click “Save” button to store them. Note: it is recommended to store recovered files on another drive. Otherwise, the lost data could be overwritten by new data.

After all operations are done, you have finished recovering deleted files from emptied Mac Trash by using MiniTool Mac Data Recovery.