How can I recover data from Empty Trash using Stellar Mac Data Recovery?
Everyday, you delete several files from your Mac system. In Mac, for
every user account, there is a particular 'Trash' folder inside the home
folder. You can delete a file either by dragging the file icon into the
Trash on the Dock or by selecting file and pressing 'Command+Delete'.
Once,
you delete a file, it goes to the Trash folder. At any time, if you
need a deleted file, you can restore the file by dragging the file out
of Trash. However, sometimes, while deleting, if the size of the file is
very big to be contained inside Trash folder or you have hit the set
commands, like 'Command+Shift+Option+Delete', then the file gets
completely deleted without going into the Trash. Apart from this, at
times, you just clean your Trash completely by choosing the 'Empty
Trash' option from the Finder menu.
In such cases, after emptying the Trash, Mac does not have any option to restore the deleted files. However, you can use powerful Stellar Mac Data Recovery utility to recover all your deleted files even after emptying the Trash folder.
Steps to Recover data after emptying the trash using Stellar Phoenix:
Download the Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery Software and install into on your system. 
Run Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery software and from the main interface, click the 'Deleted File Recovery' icon.
Another interface opens. Choose the volume, from which you need to recover the deleted file and click on the 'Continue' button to initiate the scanning operation.
The software scans the selected volume and shows all the recoverable deleted files/folders in a tree view. (Only Preview of recoverable deleted files is available in the demo version of the software)
To recover the deleted files you need to activate the software. After activating the software
Select the files, you want to recover and click the 'Recover' button.
Provide the location, when the software asks you to specify the location, where the recovered files will be saved. By default, all the recovered files get saved in a folder named 'Root' at the specified location.Now you are able to see your recovered data on specified location.
To get more info about the software visit here: http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm
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Does it support latest Mac Lion? Recently I had buy a Mac Lion because of less knowledge about the new OS accidentally I have deleted some of my precious pictures and files, does it capable to recover those picture from Mac Lion.
Yes Mcgrath Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery is now supports Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. You can easily use this software in your Mac Lion and recover your data with ease. It has very interactive and easy to use interface which enable users to use this software with ease, no technical experience required to use it.
I would say must have utility for every Mac user.
Please let me know if you have any other issue.
Cheers...
Hi,
Does it keeps the original filenames?
Thank you
Ricardo
Prior to purchase I read that Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery covers Intel and Power PC (G3 on), and your info also states "All Intel based Mac and Power PC". Have just opened package and am concerned that the disc sent states under Processor INTEL, POWER PC (G4 or later) ! I have not loaded disc and need to know whether this disc will work on a G3 Power PC running OS10 Leopard ? Finally, is it possible to load the recovered files into a new file on the original Mac or should it e loaded onto an external device ? Thanks
i just lost all my data accidentally deleting my trash.. and straight away without downloading anything else i used stellar and also activated it. what happened is i scanned the deleted file recovery and it went overnight however, it only showed me all of these random files i never seen before. the files i had deleted weren't there. also the names were all whack. i did the quick recovery, and it managed to find the folders however, my documents were all missing from the folders. any suggestions?
Yes Ricardo, software keeps the original file names.
Hi Daniel,
The names are coming whack because its journal has been updated. You can try formatted recovery or can also try deleted recovery by selecting only that file type which you wants to recover.
Thanks & Regards,
Amit Pandey
Hi John Caffrey,
yes, the software will work on G3. We suggest to save files at different location.
Thanks & Regrads,
Amit Pandey
I'm getting the message: Source and Destination Volume are same. It won't allow me to 'recover' my files. What do I need to do? What 'location' do I need to save as destination?
Hi k Jones,
you need to select a different volume (location) other then the source when software ask you to give destination location.
E.g. Suppose you have deleted your data from let say, Volume 1 and you are trying to save recover data into the same volume 1 then software shows this message, select any other volume and continue.
Hope it helps
Thanks & Regards,
Amit Pandey
i've recovered an .MOV file to another volume, and I can't open it... am i missing a step?
Hi, I downloaded your demo version for a G5 PowerPC running 10.4.11. I installed it on the mac as I only have the one but have now run it from a copy I made to an external storage device. I didn't delete the version installed on the hard drive. I am trying to recover folders which were accidently put in the trash and deleted. The demo runs fine and I can see files being recovered but then at some point it crashes. It has done the same running it from the mac hard drive and from the storage device. Does this mean that I won't be able to recover the deleted data or will the full version work differently?
I download the demo, and don't see an option in the file list to search for .txt files, I see only .rtf files. Does stellar have this capability?
Hi Dan,
I think you have selected the deleted file recovery option from the software and recovered .MOV file, which might be missed its signature. I suggest you to try RAW Recovery option from the software and which recover your files and folders on the basis of signature, it will take more time then deleted file recovery but you can see better results with the help of raw recovery.
Another case might be happen that your file which has been deleted, gets corrupted before recovery or overwritten by any other file, in that case it is not possible to see the correct file or file will not open up.
Hi Shona,
I think you also did the same think which has been done by Dan. Follow the steps as show above, if you did anything else please try to explain it in detail. One more thing Demo version shows the preview of recoverable files which can be recovered by the full version of the software, their is no difference between demo and full except price.
Hi Aaren,
Yes Stellar has this capability to add new file type which you need to recover which is not in the predefined file lists of the software. You need to follow the steps to add header as shown in the attached file: Go to Page 48 in PDF http://www.stellarinfo.com/installation-guide/mac-data-recovery/User_Guide.pdf
Thanks
Amit Pandey
Recoverd a video but only the first few seconds of greater than an hour long video play.
Hi Alex,
Which file format of video you want to recover?
Thanks
Amit Pandey
I am scanning my hard drive - it looks like it will take hours - maybe 24 hr for about 230GB - is this the norm? It seem painfully slow to try and get a few lost files.
Hi Gary,
Would like to know which scanning method are you using. There are two of them
1) Quick Recovery
2) Raw Recovery (signature based scanning)
By nature Quick recovery is much faster than the Raw recovery. It won't take 24 hrs to scan a hard drive of 230GB until unless the hard drive is free from bad sectors/blocks. On the contrary, Raw recovery takes much more time than Quick recovery because it scans the entire hard drive blocks and sectors for the lost data. But in both the case the scanning may not stretch to 24 hrs for a health drive.
Thanks
Amit Pandey
Hello,
I ran the demo version for deleted files attempting to recover some documents. The scan took all night and now the name/list of recovered doc files are just numbers, no names and no preview is available on any of the files listed. Most of the PDF files do have the original names.
If I purchase Stellar Date Recovery and I am not able to recover my docs, or the software does not work with my operating system, how to I get a refund?
Thanks
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Hi Gary,
Software works on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and you will definitely recover your doc files.
However you can directly Contact to our Customer support team if software doesn't work in your case.
Contact No: +1-877-778-6087
Email: support@stellarinfo.com
Skype ID: stellarsupport
Thanks,
Amit Pandey
Hello,
I recovered a lot of RAW files from my hard drive but I am not able to see a preview of the files to decide, which file I really want to be restored. Additionally if I am trying to recover a single file which is about 23MB I get the message : volume is full (but my external hard drive has 2 TB left) What can I do ?
Thank you in advance,
Inga
Hi Inga,
It might be possible that external drive having different file system which we are not supporting. I Advise you to save your file into the different volume of the same drive instead of external drive, it will save your file with no message.
Also please share your external drive file format and which Mac OS X you are using.
Thanks
Hello,
I had a problem when I cleaned trashed files from my external HDD to free more space, but the OS deleted practically all my HDD. I lost more than 400GB of files, most of then was Photos.
Now I'm using Stellar Mac Data Recovery, but I experienced some issues:
1. The first time I tryed to recovery, I used Photo Recovery, but:
a) The file names was changed for numbers;
b) No preview;
c) Files recovered didn't open;
2. Now I'm trying Raw Recovery, selecting the file types I want. Results:
a) Display some folders with each type of file => grouped files by type, no information by location (original folder);
b) All filenames are numbers;
c) No information about date (creation/modification);
d) Located more than 47,900 files. It's too much files and difficult to preview and select file by file. No bulk selecting (like: [shift] + [mouse click] from first to last selection, or other combination of keys), you can only "select all" or "unselect all" on the master folder checkbox;
e) I decided to select all, recovery all of it and then try to compare the recovered files with my backup to identify what files was missing there. I don't now what program can I use to compare it, because the names and dates was lost. I think it will be possible using MD5 comparison, but I don't know what program can do it. If you now how, please help me.
Some contributions:
1. Include bulk selection on the recovered list;
2. Include some filter options to be applied after recovered list was displayed to help selecting the files to be recovered.
If you know any program I can use to compare the recovered files with my backup I will be glad, remember my backup is organized by folders and names, and the recovered files was a huge list of files in only one folder, and the filenames are numbers and no information about date of creation/modification.
That's it, thank you.
Jr.
Hi Jr-Br
For your first query:
Whenever you run photo recovery module of Mac Data Recovery, by default it runs with raw recovery scanning mechanism that's why each photo and image recovered with sector number instead of name of the file. If you are not able to preview the photo's it mean your photo's has been corrupted and did not open after saving.
For your Second Query:
As I said RAW Recovery feature could not give's you name, date and time of creation/modification of the file. It also not provides you the exact location of the file.
d) It totally depends upon your size of hard drive, if you have such a big amount of data, software just recover it for you, also software has a feature to recover even a single file amongst 47,900 files. You just need to un-select all and select a specific file(s) which you want to recover.
We don't have any third party tool to compare your data, sorry for that.
Thanks
Hi Amit,
I tried to recover selected files using the scanned information saved after a complete drive scan.
The first one, it's work fine, but the second the files were there but don't open. Size is the same, but... I will try to rescan all HDD again.
About the letter "d" in my first comment, the question is: it's will be helpful if we can select a bulk of files and with a "right click mouse" can select all the selected files to be recovered. Now we need to select with mouse click one-by-one and it's not productive when we have a lots of files.
Now I'm using a program to rename the files using the photo's EXIF information. It will help me to filter the files I really need, because I recovered all photo files and now need to filter it.
Thanks
I'm in the middle of scanning a 1.5Tb external drive for Deleted files. Can I pause the transfer? Will it pick back up where it left off?
Hi Pat,
No !! I advise you not to stop the scanning in between because you have to start the scan again from initial point if you stop the process in middle.
Thanks
Hi,
I opened a large video file (605MB) in Cubase to extract the audio. Opting for another solution I erased the file from Cubase thinking it would just erase it from the pool. But the file was erased from the original folder and yet did not appear in the trash
I have tried the Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery for Mac and it is finding files removed from the system from a year ago, but not the file that appears to have been deleted just a few hours ago.
The system has not been rebooted or reformatted in any way. And yet it will not locate an apparently deleted MOV file.
I have tried the deleted files option and am currently running a photo recovery option. I have checked only MOV files to restore.
If it's able to find 44 files deleted last year (so far) why won't it pick up the file that was deleted a few hours ago?
It will still take a few hours but I am concerned that I will no longer be able to restore this file which simply must be recoverable if the app is finding older files from last year.
Suggestions?
Thanks.
Hi Brendan,
Try to recover files Using deleted recovery option. You can select to search only for MOV files from preferences.
Thanks
I accidentally erased a folder on Wednesday and immediately closed the computer and walked away until I could identify the best software to recover it. I borrowed a friend's laptop to do the research, so I would not take the chance of writing over data. Now I have a delema. Do I mount my computer containing the files that need recovering as a drive and run the software from the friend's computer or do I install the software on my computer (the drive I want to recover the files from and mount the friend's drive to save the files to?
I see many posts where the information people are recovering does not come out as they expected and my goal is to recover the folders and files intact with names. These files include media and documents so there are a variety of formats.
I need to know the exact set up and steps to follow, to effectively accomplish my goals and am wondering if anyone can help. There is no weekend tech support and no manual since I am downloading and I don't know how many computers I can install the software on and don't want to make a mistake.
I also don't want to assume 1 button does something, when actually it does not.
Thanks in advance.
Dear Melissa,
Since you have deleted a folder we suggest you to install the data recovery application on your computer. As precautionary measures you can choose to install the recovery software on the partition other than the partition where deleted folder existed. You can then install scan & preview the recoverable files.
Now the second option is best suited when your system is dead and with the help of a firewire cable you connect it to a healthy system, mounting its drive and recovering data.
Both the methods sounds good but as you mentioned you haven't used the computer after deletion we suggest you to go by installing the software on the system itself, but on another partition.
I am a fairly new Mac user. I had lots of music organized in my iTunes. I then went and deleted the tracks from my finder location so that I wouldn't have doubles taking up room on my computer. Now when I load iTunes, it can't find any of the music. SIgh. So I guessed that itunes doesn't keep a copy of the songs, even though it says it is downloading into itunes when I updated the library there.
So I got your product and yes it seems all of the songs are there to be recovered. But now I get an error message telling me I need to select another volume to recover to. I have tried making files pretty much everywhere, but I always get the same answer. As far as I can tell, it is calling my hard drive "macintosh Hd" one volume and I have no others. What I want is for the music to go back where it was, not be saved to some backup cd or something. Can you please tell me step by step what to do at this point?
Thanks,
Tawnie
I'm trying to recover a .avi file (900MB) from recently deleted trash (within the last hour). The file comes up when I scan my drive. I select it and hit Recover. A root folder appears in my specified location, but appears empty. I've attempted this a few times now with the same result. Where is the .avi file that's supposed to be in that root folder?