Photos placed in Trash

I am new to the BT Cloud. When I opened my account today, almost for the first time, I discovered that all my photographs had been placed in Trash, including a massive number of Album Art images. I have not placed anything in Trash and I did not upload the Album Art, it all appears to have taken place automatically. I spent a few hours trying to restore the images. I could not find any 'bulk' command so I had to click on every image individually. I hope it does not happen again and would like to know why it happened this time.
clayto

BlindArtists wrote:
I have no clue how to use time machine and I never have.
Assuming you made a TimeMachine drive before your accidental deletion and it backed up/updated, then there should be no problem restoring.
But something tells me you didn't .
If you didn't then your looking at data recovery using a external boot drive and $100 Data Rescue software if your internal boot drive is a hard drive. Don't think the deleted data can be as easily recovered off a SSD if you replaced yours in your 2010 model (came with hard drives)
If the boot hard drive isn't Filevaulted, you didn't use Secure Empty Trash, Disk Utility > Erase Free Space or wrote a lot of items to the drive or used the machine very little since the accidental deletion occurred, then there is a very good chance the files may be recoverable provided Data Rescue can recognize the iPhoto file format and reconstruct them again off the 1's and 0's off the drive.
The software has to be installed on a external boot drive while the computer is booted from it to minimize the chance of overwriting the deleted data. Another Mac with FireWire Target Disk Mode can also be used with Data Rescue on it.
.Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
If I'm talking geek speak and not making any sense, then stop using the computer and take it to a local PC/Mac tech which for a fee will image your entire boot drive (deleted files and all) to a external drive which you then can use Data Rescue yourself (for better privacy) or they will do the entire attempted recovery themselves.

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