How to see deleted files or restore them on another volume

Hi,
an accident happened as follows:
I wanted to unzip a file with BetterZip. It said there exists another file with the same name.
I answered it's question if I want to replace or unzip this file to another place just with replace.
But the result was that the whole content of the folder where the file should be extracted to, was deleted by BetterZip.
I don't know why ??
The volume on which that happened is not my start / system volume, it's a separate volume only with data.
1.) Exists a way to see a list of the files which were deleted ? (Because I don't know if there was something really important inside.)
2.) Is there a terminal command or another method to get these files back to that folder ?
Thanks.

Thank you.
I tried to search in that invisible folder of that volume (.Trashes / 501) hoping to find
some the accidently erased things.
But it seemed to be empty.
Ok, it happened. Up to now I don't remember something really important.
And yes, I have a backup of that volume, but I update it manually from time to time with CarbonCopyCloner.
Just after I thought I want to update the volume this accident happened.
Regards.

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