Recovering files from trash???

PLEEEEEASE HELP! Can someone tell me if you can recover files from somewhere in the system that have been deleted from trash

Basics of File Recovery
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 by using 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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I am unable to open the trash directory on a Mac 7100 running OS8.1. The window does not expand by clicking or dragging. This means I can't remove the individual files that I need to recover.
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The trash has 4181 small ".txt" files in it, plus 8 folders.
I have tried a couple of things without success:
1. Option-clicking on the trash.
2. Control-clicking on the trash.
3. Using "select all" then copying to clipboard. The file names are all then seen on the clipboard, but I can't access the files.
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Thank you for the suggestions. Assuming I find and run Disk Warrior or similar to create a new directory, then what? How will I get the files in the trash to it?
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Welcome to the Discussions.
Let me suggest that, before you undertake any
larger-scale exercise of rescue, that you take into
account the re-addressing that moving a considerable
number of files from one folder to another (here the
Trash) involves. This is especially true if any of
the icons in your folders are presently shown as
generic (page with a turned-down corner) rather than
their normal guise.
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DiskWarrior (always a good investment), use it to
construct an entirely new file directory for your
drive. Failing that, a less powerful but still
useful weapon is to rebuild the desktop of your Mac,
by starting/restarting with the keys command-option
held down together until the window asking whether
you wish to rebuild the desktop appears on the
desktop, and then accepting its offer.
If neither of the foregoing is of use, Niel's bigger
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Hi,
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http://www.twocanoes.com/
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During its clone process it checks for errors which is very helpful and lets you know - something CCC and others should adopt more of.
http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/demo.html
I wish for our/my sake you had re-read and rewritten the long 'story' and broken it into a brief list of facts we needed.
OS X
Windows
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https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
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Its a Short "grounding" buzz similar to slowly plugging an electric guitar when the amp is on, but its loud !
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Brett - thanks for that input, but as stated in my original post this happens whether I do the copy within Finder, or from inside Bridge.
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To answer your other question, we use AFP or at least is says "afp://server.local" when we connect. My apologies for not being an expert on this. The icon of the NAS on the desktop looks like the icons for the other computers.
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Recovering files from your ipod

My computer got reconfigured, so is there a way ro recover files from your ipod to your computer? I have a windows XP not a mac,if that makes a difference.

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Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
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iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
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Help to restore iTunes files from trash, not deleted.

I need to move 35,000 podcasts, 654 GB, from my trash back to my iTunes library on an external hard drive (EHD). They are NOT deleted from my trash.
I am running on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 until I can clear enough EHD space to backup/upgrade to Mtn Lion.
11.5 iTunes is my current version on my 640 GB early 2009 24” mac.
I have tried:
Undo - command + Z
Selecting all in trash and dragging it to the:
iTunes Music folder on my EHD
Automatically Add to iTunes folder on my EHD
The upper left corner on the iTunes window
The iTunes icon in the dock
There is no restore option when I Right Click on anything in trash, single or more than one file.
In iTunes: File, Add to Library, selecting the recycle bin or the file under it. Nothing happens. I do have checked on iTunes Preferences, Advanced, Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library.
Dragging 40 files from trash to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder on my EHD.
This returned the files but without essential data like the release date/description, which totally messes up my library.
They are no longer listed in date order, and I cannot see if I have the most recent without scrolling down down through sometimes over 200 pods in that album, and even then there is no date order, which orders all podcasts. All the tags/descriptions/comments I spent thousands of hours on are gone.
I just recieved in the mail yesterday my Data Rescue 3 software for an earlier problem,
I do not know if it will help retrieve all the essential data.
I cannot move the files to my desktop because the size, 654 GB, is bigger than my 640 GB mac. Plus, I know from experience this does not preserve the essential data like release date.
My iTunes EHD has 485 GB free out of 1.71 TB.
I can order another 3 TB EHD to arrive in 2 weeks, which I will eventually need, but my husband aint going to be happy. As an old photographer trying to join the digital age, I already have 20 TB storage, mostly for photos, which has put us in debt.
Please, does anyone know how to restore podcasts from trash while retaining metadata?

Thanks for your sympathy, dclkdm.
For anybody else out there,
I have had some luck retaining info such as release date, plays, and rating by
dragging podcasts to a Finder folder in iTunes,
in iTunes Media,
Automatically Add to iTunes.
So far, I have retrieved all my lost podcasts with Data Rescue 3,
but have not tried to consolidate everything into one library yet.

After refomatting HDD, reinstalling Vista plus service packs, recovering files from Microsoft backup and installing new copy of Firefox 3.6, Firefox will not run. Have deleted all old M0zilla profile folders and reinstalled Firefox again to no avail.

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Hi,
Please try to rebuil the WMI repository.
For detailed information, please refer to the blog below,
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2009/04/13/wmi-rebuilding-the-wmi-repository.aspx
If issue persists, due to sfc doesn't work, could you try to repair your system with the installation disk?
Best Regards.
Steven Lee
TechNet Community Support

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How do u recover videos from trash on ipad

Demo wrote:
There is no trash to recover from on the iPad. If by some chance you have a backup that contains the videos that you deleted, you can restore video from the backup - assuming that the videos were in the camera roll on the iPad.
Read this for more information. It explains how to restore from a backup.
iOS: How to back up
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