I have mistakenly deleted some photos. Is there a way of recovering them? No time machine is being used.

Question

I Hvae mistakenly deleted some photos. I am not using time machine and I have been advised there is some data recovery software that may bring the photos back. Can any one help please.

Answer 1

Hi, John. Here is a direct link to the web site of Data Rescue 3's developer. You can download the demo version from there and use it to see exactly what the full version would be able to recover.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
Do NOT go to a recovery service before trying this. A service will cost a minimum of ten times as much as the full version of Data Rescue, and if there is plenty of free space on your hard drive, the likelihood that the small downlod of Data Rescue will overwrite data you hope to recover is pretty small.
CSound's point is well taken about not using the computer before downloading and running Data Rescue. You are much more likely to overwrite files you want to recover if you use the computer before making the attempt.
Note that you must have a second hard drive on which to save whatever you recover. You can't save recovered files on the same disk they're being recovered from.