Mac OS maintains Trash folder for storing deleted data. This folder is always present on the right edge of Dock in your Mac PC. When a user clicks on dock’s Trash icon, contents in this folder appear in a special window labeled Trash. If you delete a file intentionally or accidentally from Mac OS, these files move to the Trash folder. This folder acts a temporary area of storage for your deleted data. Whatever you delete from your system like file, folder, program files etc are moved directly to the Trash folder in Mac OS. The physical location of the deleted data is always present in Trash folder from where you can restore data back when you need. For instance, consider a deleted file from your PC about four to five months back and if you want to restore that data back from Trash folder there is no assurance that file is still available in the Trash folder. During the period of these four to five months, you might have deleted many files from your PC and that particular file might not exist in Trash folder. When Trash folder is going to reach maximum storage capacity, new deleted data is replaced with old deleted data. This folder maintains certain storage capacity on the hard drive where deleted data is stored on first come first out basis. This folder allocates space for recently deleted data and permanently deletes old data from folder. In this situation, you have to make use of proficient tool to recover deleted files on Mac.

To restore deleted data back from Trash folder, you can simply drag and drop it to the desired location. Emptying Trash removes deleted files, folders etc that are stored in it from your computer. When you want to utilize disk space, you may try to empty it.  A warning appears before emptying this folder. You can avoid from getting this type of warning by unchecking option “show warning before emptying Trash” available in Finder->Empty Trash. Now, the deleted files are deleted permanently without moving to the Trash folder. In some cases, you may empty Trash accidentally or intentionally thinking that you have taken backup for important data. If backup is not available then deleted data is lost from your PC. Before deleting a file using Command + Del key, a conformation dialog box appears on your system asking whether you want to delete a file. This warning gives a second chance to recheck whether you are deleting correct file or not. You can even delete sensitive information, which you do not want any more using Secure Empty Trash option. This option overwrites the space previously occupied by the deleted files and folders.

Remo Recover (Mac)-Basic edition recovers deleted or lost files, folders from Mac OS X volumes even after emptying Trash. This utility easily locates and recovers files from missing or deleted volumes using in built advanced scanning algorithm. This tool recovers files from accidentally formatted Mac volumes. When you download demo version of the tool, it allows you to preview recovered data before restoring it.