Help Retrieving Deleted Files

i just bought a couple of episodes of lost from iTMS. scince i didn't have enough space on my internal hard drive for them i was transferring them to my external hard drive as i was in the middle of doing this i had the bright idea to go and delete the files i was transferring so as to free up space. as i did this i realized that the files weren't done transferring! i know, i know. i'm kicking myself now for obvious reasons, but a tech guy once gave the impression that i could retrieve something that had been deleted so long as i didn't 'secure empty trash' which i did not. i will be eternally grateful if anyone at all could help me out. thanks.

alec
Check out File Salvage
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1
But in the meantime, don't save anything on the machine as it increases the chances of overwriting the files - which is what Secure Delete does. But I have to tell you that if your drive is so full that you don't have space for two shows, then I reckon the disk usage of Virtual Memory or Temp Files will have done for them.
Secondly, FS is $90. How much would it cost to re-purchase the show?
Regards
TD

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