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How to Recover Deleted Files on MacBook Pro

How do I recover files deleted in the Mac Trash without Time Machine?

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Sherry Song

Answered on Friday, August 30, 2024

Hello, glad to help you. It's easy to recover your files, you can take these fixes:

[ 1 ]If you didn't empty the Trash.

You can press the Command and Z keys or click Put Back in the Trash.

[ 2 ]If you emptied the Trash or deleted them in the Trash.

(1)Recover them with professional software. iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac is the best choice you can try, which can help you recover over 1000 types of files whether you deleted them permanently or not.

  1. Download, install, and open it.
  2. Choose the drive where you have deleted files.
  3. Click Search for Lost Data then preview the results after scanning.
  4. Choose your wanted files and click Recover to save them to another place.

 (2)Recover them with iCloud if you enable the iCloud backups.

  1. Visit iCloud.com and sign into your account.
  2. Open the iCloud Drive and find the files you want to recover.
  3. Select the wanted file and click the Download.

Hope you can find them without Time Machine finally.

Also read: How to Recover Files From Emptied Trash on Mac.