Can you restore the trashcan?

Is it possible to restore the deleted files that I deleted from the trash. If so how? This is really confunsing so, if I put stuff in the trash, then I delete them there is there a way to restore them?

I believe there are some programs like DiskWarrior and FileSalvage and even the universally despised and thoroughly unrecommendable MacKeeper that claim to do this, but chances of success vary on how you deleted the files (secure empty trash or not?) and how much of the disk space has been written over since.
EDIT: let me just be clear that my mention of the three programs above is in NO WAY to be understood as a recommendation (particularly not for the last one, which I will unreservedly NOT RECOMMEND for anything except BEING AVOIDED. I mention them only as examples of software that claims to be able to rescue deleted files.

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Nickname in "View my account" - can you restore the blank field?

Hey, I am using iTunes with my AOL screenname. When I set up my account, I went to check my profile by selecting "Store --> View my account..."
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Jim Sigterm wrote:
I refer to the placement of items in a folder -- for example, if a folder was set to icon view, and the icons were arranged a specific shape (i.e. a square or a happy face), would that pattern survive a Time Machine restore?
yes.
Furthermore, does anybody know where data pertaining to icon location is kept?
in the file .DS_Store sitting in the folder in question. there is a file like that in every folder.
I ask this question because my colleague uses folders with manual icon arrangement as a metadata.
wow!
The Apple Store employees I spoke with today did not know if Time Machine tracks this data.
(Interestingly, my colleague's reference system has powered a number of highly influential publications. Perhaps this question could also be filed under the ethnography of data curation?)
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
-Jim

How can you restore the pictures from iphoto/iphone?

i was loading photos from my iphone onto iphoto when iphoto froze. this was when it was saying "finishing import." i had also clicked "delete photos from iphone" before this, but i force quit anyway. when i reopened it, there were no photos that had been imported and there were no new ones that had to be imported from my phone. when i unchecked "hide photos already imported," it showed a few (the ones i took last), but the majority of them were gone and are not on my phone either. i cant find them anywhere! can anyone help me? like can something be undone? this pictures were very important....thanks!

You can try Photo Transfer App
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I am new to icloud. where can a I go to learn how to restore backup to my PC?

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Can you restore the original layout/location of manually arranged icons?

I refer to the placement of items in a folder -- for example, if a folder was set to icon view, and the icons were arranged a specific shape (i.e. a square or a happy face), would that pattern survive a Time Machine restore?
Furthermore, does anybody know where data pertaining to icon location is kept?
I ask this question because my colleague uses folders with manual icon arrangement as a metadata.
The Apple Store employees I spoke with today did not know if Time Machine tracks this data.
(Interestingly, my colleague's reference system has powered a number of highly influential publications. Perhaps this question could also be filed under the ethnography of data curation?)
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Jim Sigterm wrote:
I refer to the placement of items in a folder -- for example, if a folder was set to icon view, and the icons were arranged a specific shape (i.e. a square or a happy face), would that pattern survive a Time Machine restore?
yes.
Furthermore, does anybody know where data pertaining to icon location is kept?
in the file .DS_Store sitting in the folder in question. there is a file like that in every folder.
I ask this question because my colleague uses folders with manual icon arrangement as a metadata.
wow!
The Apple Store employees I spoke with today did not know if Time Machine tracks this data.
(Interestingly, my colleague's reference system has powered a number of highly influential publications. Perhaps this question could also be filed under the ethnography of data curation?)
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
-Jim

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how many times can you restore from the same backup?

As many times as you want till you delete or modify it.
It's YOUR backup, a copy of all your stuff.
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In iPhoto how do I stop files from auto resizing as they import? I don't want my files reduced to 72. The option to choose size on the export menu not suitable for up sizing, as you can't restore the quality removed?

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Can you restore a slideshow in iPhoto using Time Machine without restoring the entire iPhoto library?

Can you restore a slideshow in iPhoto using Time Machine without restoring the entire iPhoto library?

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Can you restore only the files that have recently changed with Time Machine?

Greetings,
Before i ask my question, i'll give a bit of background as to my issue.
I was editing my $PATH within the ~/.bash_profile file and accidently overwrote my $PATH. So now simple terminal commands such as open or 'ls' no longer work. In order to edit the file, I need to change the defaults to allow me to see hidden files, but I can't do that because the defaults command stopped working after I screwed up the $PATH. Also, I used the echo commadn to verify that the previous $PATH no longer exists. The environment variable now just points to an empty folder I accidently set it to in TextEdit.
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Now my question, it seems that Time Machine is doing a full restore of every file in the backup and not just the files it incrementally changed between its hourly backups. Why does it do this? My restore process should have just been a couple of minutes, restoring a couple hundred or so files at most. Restoring several hundred thousand files seems stupid when the I select a backup that is one hour old. Is there anyway to set it up so I can restore incrementally?
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A quick note, I performed the restore from within the Time Machine while booted into OS X; the restore did not take place in the special bootup tool available. Why it does not provide an option to simply restore the files changed over the last hour is mind boggling to me

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If you forgot your encryption password:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946

Can you restore from a backup that was made on a previous version of iOS?

Hello.
I had an iPhone 3GS unning whatever the latest proper version of iOS currently is at the time of writing (4.3.5, is it?) but on Saturday I was on a rather drunken night out and I lost my phone.
Silly me.
But I was out of contract and the new iPhone (4S or 5 or whatever) is going to be announced on Tuesday next week (just been confirmed by Apple today) so I'm just going to make do with an old, spare Nokia until the new iPhone is available in the UK.
Once the new iPhone launches I will buy it, plug it into iTunes and just restore from backup and I'm back in business.
Except for one thing... The new iPhone will have iOS 5 installed and my last backup before I lost my 3GS was done on iOS 4.3.5.
Is this going to be a problem or can you restore from a backup made with an older version of the OS?
I've never done it before so I don't know.
J

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