Deleted Files today... are they completely lost?

Hi.
Im writing on behalf of a mate who is new to macs. I dont know a lot about this so its probably useful me knowing anyway.
He deleted some movie files from 'all movies' which were actually in iPhoto's library.
He ran a program called 'Data Rescue' which didnt bring any of todays files back.... it bought back loads of videos from New Years and further back but none from today...
Any advice would be MUCH appreciated... please also post expensive solutions that might be better than free solutions...
Thanks

If a file recovery program like Data Rescue was unable to restore the files, they are probably gone permanently... they've probably already been overwritten. If your friend doesn't have any backups, he'll never see those files again. You should thump him on the forehead and tell him to start backing up! Point him towards my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups> for assistance with that.
The only other possibility for recovering those files that I can think of would be to pull out the hard drive and send it off to a data recovery service. I've never used such a service (thanks to having good backups), so I don't know much about them, but I know that they are extremely expensive. Plus, I think they (sometimes?) pull apart the hard drive in the process, so you never get it back.

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