Restoring photos from the preview in Lightroom 5

I recently deleted a few files in cleaning up my desktop, however, in doing so managed to delete a few folders that had some really important photos on them. In lightroom I still have the previews for them, but can't work out if/how I can restore the photos from the previews. I googled the problem, but only found a solution to the problem in Lightroom 4, as posted here-
http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/extract-previews-lightroom-4.html
I would be extremely grateful if anyone could help, as I need these photos!
Cheers,
Rory

As Jim said, ideally it would be best if you can fish those files out of the trash/recycle.
Failing that, and failing recovery from backup and/or original card, then Adobe's Lr4 procedure will work in Lr5 too.
However, if you follow their procedure, recovered previews will be devoid of all metadata, and not have a proper ICC profile assigned (read: it's a 1/2 way solution).
For a full-fledged solution, consider:
* Rob Cole's Preview Exporter, or
* Jeffrey Friedl's Preview Extractor
(google 'em)
Rob

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