2 Ways to Undelete Mac Files
'I accidentally deleted a folder from my iMac and clicked Empty Trash habitually. After this, I realized that some important files were in that folder. Is it possible to undelete Mac files?'
Questions similar to the above problem have always been seen in various forums. The problems happened because clicking the 'Empty Trash' is unconscious pattern of behavior among some Mac users.
Is it Possible to Undelete Files Mac?
Definitely Yes! Some users think that when data is deleted from the hard drive, it is gone forever. There is no mean to undelete files from Mac OS X hard drive. In fact, 
it is a wrong perception that you cannot undelete Mac or the files are deleted permanently once you emptied trash bin as you could neither find it in the trash, nor under temporary folders. Actually the files are still very much present on your hard disk. Mac OS X creates index of the file on hard drive in file system. Every data has entry in the file system index, which includes name, location, size and type. When it is accessed from the hard drive, the index is accessed by the operating system. Operating system reads the storage location of the file to extract the file. When a file is deleted, only the index entry is deleted and the disk space occupied by the deleted data is marked as free and re-useable space, so it is possible to undelete Mac until the file is overwritten by other files.
How to Undelete Files on Mac
Since we know it is possible to undelete files Mac, let's find the ways to do Mac undelete. Actually there are two main ways for us to undelete Mac files.
1. Utilize local backup program in your Mac.
Mac machines purchased after November 2007 are installed with the Leopard operating system. One of the most important utilities of the Leopard is Time Machine. This complete backup tool can backup almost anything and everything on a Mac every hour with its unique features. Once you deleted or lost your critical files, just enter your Time Machine browser, and you can undelete Mac files from Time Machine backup. Besides Time Machine, there are other programs on Mac such as Backup which allows you to undelete Mac files. In Backup, you simply select a plan for backup and find the files you want to undelete.
2. The third-party Mac Undelete software.
If Time Machine and other backup programs on your Mac cannot help you undelete Mac files, you can use third party software to undelete Mac files. There are various Mac undelete files programs (both free software and paid versions) on the current market. If these Mac files are really important for you, you should use professional one. uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac can undelete Mac files deleted accidentally or intentionally, even deleted by emptying Trash. It can undelete documents, archives, images, videos, songs from Mac machine, USB drive, digital camera, iPod, cell phone, MP3 or MP4 player and other storage media.
What does Mac undelete Software do that Mac OS cannot?
Time Machine can help you undelete Mac by backup data every hour. If you don't turn on the backup utility or the backup utility fails in backup accidentally, you cannot undelete Mac files.
While Mac undelete software can undelete Mac files by scanning the specified drive where your deleted files located before, finding out and recovering the deleted files with advanced algorithm, even no any valid backup.
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