Recover files that are in SD card trashes?

Is there a way to see and recover what is in the trash on an SD card.? There are audio files on the card, which I thought were lost, but when in the recorder (it's an Olympus dictaphone) the files are there in trashes. When I put the card into my mac, I cannot see them or access them.

I don't understand why I can't get to it.
You can't get to it because the files were deleted on another electronic device that was not an Apple Mac.
E.G If you take a photo with a camera and then delete the photo, and then connect the camera to your Mac, it won't show anything in the trash. It won't indicate there is a deleted photo on the camera's card. This is becuase the camera deleted the photo, not the Mac.
You mention Windows so it sounds like the client is interacting with his device on a windows machine, which is a different operating sytsem to an Apple Mac which can further complicate things.
If the client deleted some audio files on his Olympus DS 2500 dictaphone, tell him to recover them using the same device on his Windows machine, because that is the machine the dictaphone is connected to, not your Mac.
edited by: roam Added E.G for clarification

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