Trash recovered files

hey
iv browsed a few 'recovered files' discussions but none of them really solved my general query
I'm just wondering what users do with their recovered files you find in he trash, normally these are files with a random string of letters and numbers which inevitably end up just being deleted (mostly through laziness).
but what do you other uses do? is there a simple way of restoring them? are they important?
cheeeeeeers
Louis

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I have the same issue. I don't seem to see it everytime, but almost. I am going to try to keep better track of it. I have seen several different files show up here. Mostly this one.

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Lately I am seeing a recovered files folder in the trash with a bunch of Preview folders titled "com.apple.Preview8909_2118585411 " and the like and also some titled "mf_refimg.29" and the like. All have pictures in them. The Preview folder has a bunch, if not all of the pics I've looked at with Preview lately (maybe yesterday's batch from the camera) and the mf_refimg folders have a graphic I used with Disc Cover, a CD/DVD cover app. Disc Cover is working fine as is Preview. No strange behavior noted in either app other than the OS thinking that Preview still has a pic open after I have closed that pic, which has been a sporadic Preview bug for awhile. All the pics appear to be copies of pics that are happily in the folders they started out in, elsewhere on my computer.
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Message was edited by: John Lippincott

Just to add a bit to what Malcolm said--many programs keep temporary files. In Preview's case you'll notice that there is a "Revert" item in the File menu, so if you make changes and then change your mind it can recover the the original. The temp files for Preview are stored in this hidden directory:
"/private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems"
Programs are supposed to clean up after themselves when they quit, invisibly getting rid of their temp files, but some programs fail to do this. Preview USED to but no longer does (one of a number of things that got goofed up in Preview when they re-wrote it). When that happens the system itself will do the clean-up next time you restart, and place the temp files into the Recovered Items folder which it deposits in the Trash. Another Apple program that fails to delete its temp files when it quits is SoundTrack Pro (and its garbage can be very large files). Since programs are supposed to automatically get rid of this stuff, when they don't the system assumes the program crashed and that you might want the things back, so puts them in a folder in the Trash so you can sort through and decide if you need or can use them.
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Numbers generates recovered files on bootup

Does anyone else experience this?
Whenever I have used Numbers '09, the next time I do a cold bootup (power down, cold startup) in the trash I find recovered files, always the same one. Like this actual example:
Trash
} Recovered files (folder)
} com.apple.iWork.Numbers183_SFED_2960572041
} style-thumbail-Basic.tiff
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Does anyone else experience this? Yes I've reported it to Apple. Yes I've repaired permissions. Yes I've checked for disk errors with Disk Utility.
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I identified these 'recovered files' linked to Numbers.
They are the thumbnails of recents documents which are no longer available.
On my machine, I sat the number of recents documents to twenty.
On every morning, during the startup process, the preferences file is replace by a script which I wrote, by a clean one designed to get rid of possible corruption.
As the stored thumbnails are no longer matching the 'recent documents' described in the installed prefs file, they are dropped and I retrieve them in the trash.
So, don't worry.
The only surprising feature is that they appear as 'Recovered'
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 22 mai 2010 10:36:32

What is happening when recovered files show up in my trash everyday. These files are recovered from my Iweb.

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Annoying, but nothing to worry about.
Sometimes the OS just tries to rescue files you've trashed.
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Not sure if I should post this here or in the MBP forum...
On bootup a couple of days ago, I found another "recovered files" folder in the trash on my MBP; I usually look at the contents and simply empty the trash, but when I checked it this time, it had a strange sub folder "tempfolder aaa" which contains the following:
DPLib, IMLLib, MacromediaRuntime Lib, ProjLib (all shared libraries) and a folder "xtras" with:
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Hi Barbara,
This from the Apple Help Viewer.
*If Trash contains “Recovered Files”*
One or more Recovered Files folders may appear in your Trash after restarting your computer.
The recovered files are temporary files used by Mac OS X applications. Usually temporary files are deleted by an application when it no longer needs them. If an application quits unexpectedly, the temporary files may not be deleted by the application. When you restart your computer, Mac OS X moves these temporary files to the Trash.
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Recovering Files in Trash with Time Machine?

Hey guys,
So I have some files that I desperately need to recover that I put in my trash a while ago. I am certain they were still in there when I recently backed up my Macbook Pro to Time Machine, but then a week later I accidentally emptied the trash, forgetting I'd left valuable files in there.
I've since tried to search through my time machine backup, but however cannot find a folder that contains the files anywhere. I tried making hidden files, but still can't find a folder that would contain the files that were in my trash.
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OSX: Was running Mavericks at time of aforementioned events, now running Yosemite
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The recovered items folder can be safely ignored: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23371?viewlocale=en_US
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Irritating: Recovered Files Folder in Trash after every boot

I have a clean installation of Snow Leopard on my 2009 iMac. The computer came with Leopard. But I gave uncle Steve $30 and got the Snow Leopard disc.
I did a clean installation; did not use any time machine recovery or reuse any old data. Just CLEAN.
Now, after each shut down and restart cycle, the Trash can has crumbled paper. This really bothers me. I thought Macs suppose to work correctly. I did not delete anything and nothing should be in that Trash. If OS deletes something, it should take care of it behind the curtain. I don't want to see trash in the Trash can.
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Exact same problem here as Alex and Bishboria.
I'm always cleaning my Trash, whatever I reboot, shutdown or wake-up the computer from sleep mode, the previously empty trash get an empty "Recovered Files" folder...
This happens since Snow Leopard upgrade. Subsequent versions of Snow 10.6.x didn't correct this behavior.
Same wish than Alex: if the system is performing some auto-cleaning at each restart cycle, fine, I'm glad that the system takes care of itself and of my computer. But don't show me this empty folder... Let me handle MY trash! So that I know when I forget to empty it.
It should goes to another post, but this "bug" belongs to the (long?) list of Snow's glitches: longer time to boot, slugishness response from internal harddrive. Should I go back to Leopard which was so responsive? The brand new full-64bits-Kernel isn't it supposed to be faster, stronger, more efficient than the 32bits one?!

Do I need to know what a "Recovered File" in trash is before emptying the trash?

I have seen several questions about Recovered Files in the trash and am guessing its safe to just dump the trash. The files are "Image Debug" and "MaglevExpressTemp140". I did a google search and know that I'm not the only one this has happened to and I'm pretty sure its not serious, but wondered if anyone knows what they are.
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laverne's mom

Thank you. Nothing crashed at all which I guess is a good thing. I just couldn't figure out where they came from and since the only things I did today besides being on a few forums that I am involved with was to scan some really old family photos to email or post on one of the forums. So it is either something in the scanning or in Preview. and like I said the HP software is the one most recently updated. I'm going to trash them now so I don't have to think about it. And will do it again if the reappear.
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Can't get rid of 'recovered file' in trash.

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The problem is not with emptying the trash, that I can do.
After emptying the trash of the recovered file, 'spot light' search indicate that it and all associated data no longer exist.
The trash will remain empty until a restart or logged out; the file will return to the trash on restart or logged back in.
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Thanks

Thank you very much again for your answer!
Boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down) and reinstall the system. That will include a new copy of the App Store application.
I did it two times before but this did not solved the issue.
By the way I've never had a Mac or system that didn't occasionally leave recovered files in the Trash bin.
I heard about that (related to MS Office and also IBM Notes) but I was nerver affected of that issue since installing OS X 10.10.
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It is hard to ignore that Every day empty the Trash...
Thank you for the script. I want to upgrade my Mac with a SSD drive and I will test then a clean OS X install. Hope this solved the problem.
Many thanks to you and the time you invested!

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i have the recovered folders on my mac and i want to empty my trash and can i put my recovered files in a seperate folder on my desktop or do they have to stay in my trash?

Empty the trash to release more HD space.
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Then I found that Quark was still open. Quitting allowed the files to delete, but they did not disappear from showing in the trash, they just weren't physically there.
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You're right!!
I looked for an answer and I found it on Microsoft's site:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macstart/i-keep-getti ng-an-empty-file-in-trash-at-startup/e5760e59-9e5f-4a0a-8766-dac6a73af148
1. Open application Office error reporting, the application is located in this folder
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