Recovering deleted items

magicroundabout

magicroundabout

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a friend of mine has accidentally deleted all her photos from her macbook air whilst trying to free space. Post night shifts is the excuse for this laps in concentration but she is wanting them back.

i've tried to find some free recovery tools yet some want you to pay to recover or others have a limit of only a couple of GB.

She had roughly 2k photos which have gone.

can anyone help with regard to a free or relatively cheap recovery tool please
 
if she had iCloud backup switched on, they get retained in the cloud for 30 days after deletion before being removed completely.

Unfortunately i've never used any for the mac, but there might be something in the app store which is cheap-ish?

Nox
 
Data rescue has worked for me, but I wouldn't try anything on a boot drive. Best thing she can do is leave the laptop off and get someone to do it properly. Might be too late if she's been using it since deleting the files. :(
 
ok guys. i've extracted some recovered files from my friends mac.

trouble is they're .gz files (pic attached)

how can i get to the contents of these to see if the files i need are inside?!

 
hmmm, you can try something like keka - thats a free gui archive product. you'll be able to specify output directory pretty easily with that i'd of thought.

Nox
 
Or if you want to use command line, which is easy. Just go to the folder where you have the .gz files and you can use gunzip to extract them. They should extract to the same place you select the files.

user$ gunzip Z0001.gz

If you want to open the .bz2 files, you can use bunzip2

user$ bunzip2 Z0001.bz2.

You could also copy the files into another temporary folder and extract there, so you can see them one by one.
 
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Ghosteh said:
Or if you want to use command line, which is easy. Just go to the folder where you have the .gz files and you can use gunzip to extract them. They should extract to the same place you select the files.

user$ gunzip Z0001.gz

If you want to open the .bz2 files, you can use bunzip2

user$ bunzip2 Z0001.bz2.

You could also copy the files into another temporary folder and extract there, so you can see them one by one.
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cheers for this i shall give this a go
 
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