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How To Recover A Replaced Folder On My Mac?

I accidentally choose "replace" option not "merge" and now every entire file in that folder just wiped out. Can't even find in Trash bin, or in time machine Is there anyway I can recover replaced folder please? why the **** replace does exist, why even they didn't automatically back up replace folder before procced why why not even in trassh bin why

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iBoysoft author Vain Rowe

Vain Rowe

Answered on Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Once you replace a folder with a new one, the only two solutions you can count on are to restore from the backup drive and to use professional data recovery software. If you have enabled Tima Machine to back up your computer, launch Time Machine > find the original folder you want to > click Restore to bring it back. If you have no backup, go to use data recovery software instead. iBoysoft Data Recovery Software is designed with stunning disk scanning skills and data recovery algorithms for you to recover deleted/replaced/lost files and folders from both internal hard drives and external hard drives on Mac and Windows. You can download and install it on your computer to perform replaced folder recovery!

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