It always happens that you delete a file, folder or entire disk by mistake. The first thing emerging in your mind is the backup. But if you do not have a backup, is it possible to recover trash on Mac or how to recover trash on Mac? This is a question, for that there are so many possibilities. Apple has integrated many utilities into Mac OS X, like Disk Utility, Finder, Preview and more. Unfortunately, Mac undelete tool is not included. Today, we are going to address your puzzles. In this tutorial, we will talk about whether you can get back deleted files on Mac and how to recover trash on Mac effectively.

Part 1. Is it possible to recover trash on Mac

App Cleaner & Uninstaller is a popular tool to completely remove applications from your Mac, without leaving any traces and leftovers. The tool is easy to use and it takes just a few clicks to uninstall the apps. For your safety, by default, App Cleaner & Uninstaller moves files to the Trash.

• This Mac trash recovery tool is 100% safe for you to recover files from Trash on Mac running macOS 10.12 or above. It can recover files in 200+ formats, restore files lost under different situations, no matter from internal hard drive or external media/ sd card storage device.
• Jun 16, 2020  How to Empty Trash Bin on macOS. When moving a file to trash, you are not deleting the file on your mac, you just mark the file as trash on your macOS, which means you can still restore the file from the trash, just like you get thing back for a real trash can.

Before we go into how to recover trash on Mac, you may want to know whether it is possible to recover trash on Mac computer. The answer may be different depending on the situations. Though Apple does not offer an undelete tool for Mac computers, it has a lot of ways to get back a deletion file.

1. If you deleted the files in the Finder app, you can get them back by clicking on Undo Move in Edit menu immediately. The prerequisite is that deletion is the last operation you did in the Finder app.

2. Another place you can get deleted files back is the Trash app. If the erased files are still in the Trash, you can click the Trash icon on the Dock and recover files.

3. Time Machine is a backup service developed by Apple for Mac. If you have Time Machine on your Mac computer, the lost files may be backed up with the last edit version. Go to Time Machine >Spotlight to restore deleted files.

4. Besides Time Machine, a few people use cloud services or internet-hosted backup systems, such as Dropbox, Crashplan or Backblaze. Then you can search for the deleted files in these backup services.

However, if none of those solutions is true, there are still chances. Even though you have deleted the files, information, such as the real data, file size and location, are associated with the files are still intact until the space marked as free occupied by new generated data. Of course, you cannot view the files without professional tools. In order to increase the possibilities of trash recovery on Mac, you should stop using your computer immediately, when you discover that you have erased some files accidentally. Then search for a professional deleted file recovery service or use the Mac deleted file recovery tools we recommended below.

Part 2. Top 3 Mac deleted file recovery tools

To learn about how to recover trash on Mac, you have to grasp a professional tool, like Disk Drill 3, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac or Wondershare Data Recovery. As you can see, it is not easy to retrieve deleted files on Mac. You'd better grasp more than one recovery tool. If one is invalid, you can try another one.

Disk Drill 3

Disk Drill 3 is a dedicated data recovery tool for Mac computers. Its key features include:

1. Recover most file formats from hard drive or extra storage.

2. Scan and retrieve recently deleted files in one click

3. Offer extra tools to manage, protect, and clean up Mac computer.

Step 1. Open Disk Drill for Mac after installing it on your computer. Make sure to uncheck all options on the first pop-up window.

Step 2. When the main interface shows up, tick the checkbox in front of the hard drive that the deleted files have stored in and click on the Recover button at upper right corner. Then the software will start scan the hard drive and try to recover lost files.

Step 3. On the scanning result window, you filter the found files by date, size and format. Once you discover the deleted file you want to recover, you can click the eye icon to preview the content within this Mac trash recovery tool.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac is another professional application to help you get rid the trouble of how to recover trash on Mac. Its principal features include:

1. Get back deleted files on Mac easily and quickly.

2. Retrieve formatted files from hard disk, memory card and other devices.

3. Recover lost data from partition that deleted accidentally.

Step 1. Open the Mac data recovery tool and select the data type you want to get back by ticking the checkboxes.

Step 2. Then choose a location where you stored the lost files and click on Scan button to start scanning.

Step 3. When it is done, preview the results arranged by path, type or time. Select the files you want to recover and click Recover button to restore them.

Wondershare Data Recovery

It is the last one on our list of best Mac files recovery tools. Its main features include:

1. Retrieve lost files from Mac computer, memory card, hard drive, flash drive and other storage medium.

2. Coverage images, documents, videos, music and more formats.

3. Get back files deleted by mistake, system crash, format, improper partition and more.

Step 1. Run Wondershare Data Recovery and select the data types by ticking the checkboxes. Click on Next to continue.

Step 2. On the second window, choose a hard drive and click on Start button to search for the lost files.

Step 3. Then you can preview all recoverable files on the result window organizing by categories. Select the deleted files and click on Recover button to complete how to recover trash on Mac. Here you may also want to know how to delete apps on Mac.

Part 3. Data Recovery – File retrieval on Windows computer

The above part mainly talks about the data recovery for Mac users. If you run both Windows and Mac computers, then you should not miss Apeaksoft Data Recovery, the Windows files recovery software.

• It is strong to recover the deleted files from USB flash drive, recycle bin, hard drive, memory card, etc.
• It recovers images in JPG, TIFF/TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, CRW, CR2, NEF, ORF, RAF, SR2, MRW, DCR, WMF, DNG, ERF, RAW, etc.
• It retrieves the media files in the formats of AVI, MOV, MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, SWF, MPG, AIFF, M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA, MID/MIDI, etc.
• Documents like DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX, PDF, CWK, HTML/HTM, INDD, EPS, etc. are recoverable.
• Email and other data like ZIP, RAR, SIT, and more are supported to get back.
• Compatible with Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP (SP2 or later).
• Check this video tutorial to learn how to recover deleted data on Windows computer.

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Check this video tutorial to recover deleted files from trash on your computer.

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Conclusion

In this article, we have discussed how to recover trash on Mac computers. Firstly, we answer the question whether it is possible to recover trash on Mac. Of course, you can get back deleted files on Mac. And we have offered some basic ways to get back the trash on Mac. If the basic solutions are not feasible, you can try some professional Mac data recovery tools, like iPhone Data Recovery for Mac. There is a wide range of programs announced to be able to recover trashed data on Mac, but few actually work. So, we tested popular recovery tools and identified top 3 Mac recovery tool. If you are confused by the problem of how to recover trash on Mac, you can try these trashed data recovery tools.

Summary

Download EaseUS iPhoto recovery software and apply provided methods here to recover deleted iPhoto Library with photos on Mac. If the attempt to restore iPhoto Library from time machine failed, don't worry and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac is ready to help.

How can I recover accidentally deleted iPhoto Library on Mac?

'How can I recover deleted iPhoto Library on Mac? I need some suggestion or guidance. I feel so stupid because I accidentally erased my iPhoto Library to Trash and had emptied the trash securely a few days ago...

My friends told me that I can restore the deleted iPhoto Library from Time Machine. But I completely don't understand how to use this app on my Mac. Can anyone help me retrieve my lost pictures from the deleted iPhoto Library that I had empty securely from the trash plus guidance to activate Time Machine? I need those photos back.'

According to Apple's support community, when a user deleted iPhoto Library, there's still a chance to restore lost photos and even the app itself. Read on and follow the provided solutions you'll see how to effectively restore lost photos after accidentally deleting iPhoto Library. (Methods below also can be applied to restore deleted photos and Photos Library on the latest Mac computers to restore with installed new macOS.)

Workable Solutions	Step-by-step Troubleshooting
Fix 1. Recover deleted iPhoto Library	Method 1. Recover without Time Machine...Full steps Method 2. Recover from Time Machine...Full steps
Fix 2. Rebuild iPhoto Library on Mac	Press and hold Command and Option keys and click on the iPhoto icon, When a dialog appears...Full steps

Part 1. Recover deleted iPhoto Library on Mac

It's easy to understand that your data always matters more than your apps and hardware. So your first step after deleting iPhoto Library on Mac should be restoring lost photos. And the best way is not to restore from the Trash.

Mostly, according to Apple's support community, when you delete the iPhoto Library from Mac, the chance to restore photos from the Trash is very small. Here are two methods that you can follow and restore deleted iPhoto Library with photos on Mac.

Method 1. Recover deleted iPhoto Library photos on Mac without Time Machine

If Time Machine was not running and you emptied the trash securely after deleting the iPhoto Library, it is impossible for you to perform Mac deleted recovery from Time Machine. If you can't recover deleted iPhoto Library on Mac from TM, you can try EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac for help.

EaseUS Mac data recovery software allows users to recover multiple types of files including the deleted iPhoto Library with simple clicks. It can offer you the most robust recovery capacity in all data loss cases. Now you can free download the trial version and evaluate what it can recover.

Keep Noted:

1. 1. This software is a trial version that you can use to scan and preview all lost photos without payment. You can pay to restore the lost photos after making sure this software indeed work.
2. 2. To avoid unexpected data loss, you should immediately start using Time Machine and backing up useful files after following the below photo recovery process.

Step 1. Select the location where your valuable photos were lost and click Scan button.

Step 2. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac will start immediately a quick scan as well as a deep scan on your selected disk volume. Meanwhile, the scanning results will be presented in the left pane.

Step 3. By Path and Type, you can quickly filter the photos you've lost earlier. Select the target files and click Recover Now button to get them back at once.

After the restoring, you've restored the deleted iPhoto Library. One more thing that you should do to view your restored photos, which is to import the restored iPhoto Library into iPhoto Library folder on Mac:

Launch iPhoto > 'File' > 'Switch to Library' > Select the restored iPhoto Library > Click 'OK'.

There, you can view and reuse your photos again.

Method 2. Recover deleted iPhoto Library photos on Mac from Time Machine

As many users know, Time Machine is a backup program. With it running on Mac if you deleted iPhoto Library, this application will create a backup of the deleted pictures. You can launch Time Machine application and go back to the time before you delete the iPhoto Library, then restore the deleted iPhoto Library with photos:

(This also works to restore lost Photo Library.)

Step 1. Connect your Time Machine drive to Mac and run Time Machine from System Preference.

Step 2. Scroll the timeline on the right side, click the desired backup (the date of your last backup).

Step 3. Navigate to the backup of your iPhoto library (by default, your iPhoto Library locates in 'Home/Pictures/iPhoto Library' folder), click to select it and click 'Restore' to retrieve your data.

How To Restore From Trash

The time of restoring iPhoto Library depends on its size.

Part 2. Rebuild iPhoto Library on Mac

When the photo recovery process completes, but you find the restored photos don't show up in iPhoto or iPhoto doesn't respond nor work on Mac, don't worry. All you need is to rebuild the iPhoto Library.

The other practical trick that you can try is to rebuild iPhoto Library on Mac computer. Here are the detailed steps:

Steps to rebuild iPhoto Library:

Step 1. Press and hold Command and Option keys and click on the iPhoto icon.

Step 2. When a dialog appears with rebuild options, check the options of rebuild iPhoto Library and click 'Rebuild' to confirm.

Steps to repair Photo Library:

On new Mac computers with the latest macOS such as Catalina, Mojave, you can repair Photos Library and make Photos application work on Mac again

Conclusion

The Mac data recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac to restore lost photos after accidentally deleted iPhoto Library is easy and effective for every level of Mac users to apply and try. When you don't have Time Machine backups of lost data, you can also apply it to restore data on Mac without Time Machine.

Trash In Mac

The two methods provided for restoring deleted iPhoto Library will effectively restore your lost iPhoto Library. If you have further file recovery issues on Mac computers, follow our Mac file recovery resource page for further help.