It's not that easy to unerase Mac files. Forget about the scene from CSI where police technicians are able to recover 100% of deleted data in an instant. With Mac OS X, it may be impossible to recover any data under certain circumstances. However, there are steps that can be taken to maximize the chances of a partial recovery.

Trash Folder in Mac OS X

The first thing to do is to check the Trash Folder for the deleted file. The Trash folder in Mac OS X is actually a private, hidden directory located in each user's Home folder. The path to the folder is ~/.Trash. If additional hard drives or USB sticks are attached to the system, those drives contain an invisible directory called .Trashes, which in turn contains a hidden Trash folder for each user.

After the Trash is emptied, the file is deleted but the remnants of the file are not overwritten immediately. The space occupied by deleted files is considered free hard drive space by OS X. Over time, the remnants of deleted files are overwritten and lost forever.

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