![]() When it’s getting slim, I empty the trash to free up some of that space. Since I work a lot with video content (see my YouTube channel for lots of fun reviews and tutorials!) I am constantly fighting for disk space. It’s on a flash drive, but goes into the same trash and is deleted just as surely as it would be on the boot drive. See that file named Important Document.pdf? Yeah, that’s the one I’m going to ‘accidentally’ delete and then recover. You no doubt already know that you can double click the trashcan to open it up and see what’s inside: To start out, a sight you’ve seen thousands of times while working on your Mac: A full trashcan: There’s a free version for basic recovery tasks, but I’ll be working with the Professional version that’s $99 for a two-Mac license. One program that fits the bill is the amusingly named iBoysoft Data Recovery Pro. The Mac file system is remarkably similar, which means if you’re fast enough, you can often recover a completely deleted file with the right software. Rip off a tab and that page doesn’t change, it just moves into the pool of available pages for later use. Most have little tabs that specify title, owner, date written, etc, but there are also plenty of pages without tabs, ready to use as needed. Imagine a notebook with millions of pages. Sayonara files.Įxcept the way that the actual file system works behind the scenes on a Mac means that it’s not the file that’s deleted, but the information about the file. There’s no “oops” button, no “rewind”, no nuthin. There are a lot of places you can undo an action, but when you empty that trash can on your MacOS X system, that’s still a one-way journey. All well and good, except lots of people manage disk space manually by emptying their trashcan on their computer. Modern user interfaces improved on that with a staging ground for files that the user wanted to delete, offering up a “trashcan”, “rubbish bin” or even “recycle bin” where “deleted” files would sit around for a few weeks before really vanishing from the system. Recover it? That would have been like pulling a fragile glass sculpture out of the trash compactor after it’d been run! Not so good. ![]() In the early days of computer systems, deleting a file was a one way journey. ![]()
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