Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Mac OSX Trash Issues and mac File recovery

All the files and folders that we delete in Mac OS X from Finder first goes to ‘Trash’. Trash is sometimes very useful in case of accidental deletion to recover the data. But certain Trash problems may prevent us the access to these deleted files . Sometimes the deleted file fails to go to Trash. you may find it impossible to delete files from Trash. The most common reason for such issues is permissions denial. This might create critical data loss conditions if the file deleted is of an important concern. However, these files can be recovered from the last backup or by use of a File recovery Mac tool.

For instance, suppose you delete a file on a Mac OS X based Machine and You wants it to be restored from the trash but after looking into trash you don't find it there

Cause Of the problem

Incorrect permissions of ‘.Trashes’ or‘.Trash’ folder can be the main reason behind that which causes the permanent deletion of the file without the user’s intervention. This can also cause problems,discussed above.

Trash folders may be find either at home folder as ‘.Trash’ or root of your mounted hard drive as ‘.Trashes’. If the file being deleted is located at home folder drive, it moves to ‘.Trash’ folder or else, to ‘.Trashes’ folder.

How to resolve the issue?

You need to first find the folder in use. To do so, you have to unmount the external drive(s), if any, and check the existence of files in Trash. If the file is not visible, the folder is ‘.Trashes’ or in other case, is ‘.Trash’.

You can then use "sudo rm -rf" command to delete the troubled folder. Keep in mind to include the full path when ‘.Trashes’ folder are deleted . After this, you should log out and log in again to recreate the folder. These steps are applicable to solve all the problems associated with Trash.

To restore the accidentally deleted files previously, use your last backup. or, you can opt for a third-party tool to recover mac file. These software are most suitable
Mac File Recovery utilities that scan the affected Mac disk and recover the deleted and lost data.