Hi everyone:-) I am desperate for help please

I have deleted some of my source files that were saved on my hard drive. The images are all still visible in lighroom, obviously previews.
Is there anyway I can still use these images with the source files gone?
I ran a system recovery and the files were found but they wont open? It just says the file are unreadable or corrupt. I am sure they can not be corrupt as I stopped using the computer immediately.
The recovery program I used is Disk Drill. I am using a mac.
I need these images in RAW or JPEG as that is what I saved them as.
If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it.
And no, no backups done:-(

The first and most important thing for you to do is to stop using that mac for any major functions that invovle writing to disk so you don't make the problem worse by overwriting the files.
I've never had to recover files on a mac but have had to many times from SD cards and found that you really have to try more than one app to get it done. Whereas one app might tell you the files are unrecoverable, another might recover half of them and a third might get them all or at least more of them.
While there are a number of free apps (and ones with trials that will let you run the routine to see what you miight recover before you buy it), there is probably a better chance that you will have success with one of the paid ones.
The mac app store has some and I found this survey on the web:
http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/mac-recovery-software/
Good luck. If the files are really valuable commerical files, you can pay through the nose and have a data recovery firm get them for you.
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