I cleaned my Mac’s hard drive yesterday and accidentally deleted some of my commonly used video and archive (ZIP) files. Also, they are not in the Mac Trash folder. Is there any professional Mac data recovery tool help me restore them?
Have you saved files onto your Mac after the deletion occurs? If the new data is written to the exact disk blocks that previously stored deleted files, you’ll face the “data overwritten” issue.
Once the deleted video and archives are overwritten, even data recovery tools can’t restore them.
However, for us ordinary users, we can’t judge whether the blocks that the deleted files used to be stored in are overwritten or not.
What you should do in a hurry is to use a data recovery tool to help you scan your Mac’s hard drive and check if there are local snapshots or copies of the deleted files available.
This is the only reliable way to help you get them back.
I’ve tried iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac. An easy-to-operate tool guides me to recover my deleted documents. You can try it for free scanning.
It is almost impossible to get the deleted files back, as modern Macs are equipped with SSDs (TRIM enabled).