Recover Files Deleted Via the Terminal?

So by accident while doing some stuff in Terminal (long story) everything in my Documents folder on my iMac at work got deleted. I have a backup of all but three subfolders (projects) that were in there.
I was just wondering if there's any way to get those files back? Most of the file recovery apps and utilities don't mention if they work with files that were deleted in Terminal...

Your best shot at recovery is Prosoft Data Rescue. There is a free trial to see if it can recover what you need. But don't do another process on that drive until you've downloaded and run it.
It doesn't matter whether or not they were deleted via GUI or via command line.
-mj

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Recover files deleted via terminal

I used a terminal command and my dropbox, google drive folder and another documents were deleted from my computer. I dont know what the command means and dont know what to do. What i wanted to do whit this command was to resync a google drive folder because I had to reinstall google drive
This is the command :
find ~/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname '*google*drive*' 2> /dev/null -exec rm -Rf {} \;
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Drive
I got it from this website http://www.knowitnot.com/2013/11/02/reset-google-drive-mac-os-x/
Please help me i really need the info that i lost

find ~/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname '*google*drive*' 2> /dev/null -exec rm -Rf {} \;
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Drive
It is easier to start with the 2nd command.
'rm' is remove, as in delete. the files in ~ (your home folder) -> Library (a hidden file so people do not go messing in it) -> Applications Support -> Google ->Drive (which is where I assume some Google Drive information is typically stored.
The -f says remove the files without prompting. The -R says recursive, so if the target folder (Drive) has any sub-folders, it will delete those as well, and keep walking down any additional sub-sub-sub-sub...folders until everything in "Drive" and under "Drive" is removed.
So rm -Rf is a very dangerous command, especially if the target directory is something high enough up in the directory tree. There have been people that have followed posts on the web that deleted their entire file system with just one 10 character rm command.
The 'find' command will search the target folder and all sub-sub-sub...folders and using a huge array of selection options find files and allow other commands to operate on the found files.
The target folder was your home directory (~ is the Unix shortcut for your home folder).
The -maxdepth 1 say says stop at the current folder. That is to say, do not look in any sub-folders. A value of 2 would look in just the sub-folders under the target folder. A value of 3 would go down another level, etc... So -maxdepth 1 just looked for file in your home folder.
The -type d said select folders (d for directory, aka a folder). So it ignored anything that was not a folder.
The -iname '*google*drive*' selected only folders that included "google" and "drive" in the name ignoring any upper/lower case differences. So it was looking for your Google Drive folder in your home folder.
The 2> /dev/null told the Terminal shell to send any error messages to the null device (basically hiding any error messages that would be issued).
Now the fun part, as with the other rm command, the -exec rm -Rf {} \; deleted recursively all the files found by the 'find' command. The -exec invokes the specified command (in this case rm -Rf) and substitutes the file name found for the {}, the \; is just to tell 'find' where the -exec command ends.
So 'find' found your Google Drive folder in your home folder, then removed it and anything inside of it.
Finally, the 'rm' command is final. There is no UnDo. There is not Trash folder. The file name is removed from the directory, the storage associated with the file is put on the file system free list, and the file is gone. If another file needs storage, it will take that storage from the file system free list, and now the deleted file data is overwritten. This is why a salvage recovery tool needs to be run as soon as possible after something like this happens to avoid stepping on the accidentally deleted files. And even then it is often difficult to figure out if something on the free list is a file or just junk.
The only comfort I can give you is that, you have joined a wide group of Unix uses that have done similar things, populated by users with a lot more command line experience than you, but they still typed the wrong thing at the wrong time and lost valuable data. The lucky ones had a backup, or were able to find another copy, such as checking if the Google Drive online site keeps deleted files for a few weeks, just in case.

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Maybe possible, maybe not. Above all, don't do anything else with your Mac in the meantime, as any time it needs to create a new file, it will potentially overwrite what's left of one of the files you deleted.
Then you'll have to invest in an application like Data Rescue II or FileSalvage:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/datarescueinfo.php
http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1
(This is not a personal recommendation, I've never used them. They have a free demo that will probably tell you if the files you need are recoverable, but if you're lucky and they are, you'll have to buy the full version to actually recover them.)

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Blown it this time! in my haste to do things I have lost 7 years of photos. Can anyone reccomend any data recovery software? Or ideas on how to get it without buying. I am looking at Data Rescue 3 at present.
Cheers
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Files in Trash
If you simply put files in the Trash you can restore them by opening the Trash (left-click on the Trash icon) and drag the files from the Trash to your Desktop or other desired location. OS X also provides a short-cut to undo the last item moved to the Trash -press COMMAND-Z.
If you empty the Trash the files are gone. If a program does an immediate delete rather than moving files to the Trash, then the files are gone. Recovery is possible but you must not allow any additional writes to the hard drive - shut it down. When files are deleted only the directory entries, not the files themselves, is modified. The space occupied by the files has been returned to the system as available for storage, but the files are still on the drive. Writing to the drive will then eventually overwrite the space once occupied by the deleted files in which case the files are lost permanently. Also if you save a file over an existing file of the same name, then the old file is overwritten and cannot be recovered.
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten with recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.

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You typed something into the terminal and you have no idea where you got the original command from and you have no idea what you typed. Now the screen shot you post is pretty messed up. Not really sure what you expect especially if you wont answer the questions asked or try the steps suggested.
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