Help! Can you retrieve deleted files at all?

I'm running photoshop CS2 on a mac osx 10.5.1. I accidentally dragged a photoshop image i was working on into the trash and deleted it. Is there anywhere in photoshop or on my mac where info on this file may be saved? I really would love it back. Thanks!

What ever happened to programs like 'UnErase"? If files are deleted and the drive has not been written to, then those files are still there, with just a 'flag' at the file's header marking it as invisible and ok to be overwritten (the result of emptying the trash.) A program like 'UnErase' would simply go through flagged files marked for deletion and make them visible and restored again.
Too bad no one has kept up with keeping that simple utility available to all of us. It should be a part of the standard apple toolkit.
Of course, there is the better way to operate, to prevent sobs and buckets of tears, and that is to make backups. Get an external drive and slop everything over to it at regular intervals with copies of everything you are working on that you do not want to lose forever.

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