help ! this happened to me and that link above didn't help?
hi,
while i was on mac forums frantically reading around how on earth i might be able to 'restore' from my trash folder, files which i unintentionally deleted from a large folder containing many other folders.... (and discovered that no restore function means i'd have to drag & drop the approx 2500 files INDIVIDUALLY into folders where i don't know from whence they came (massive dilemma) -
so i was reading about that, thnking whoops i should've used time machne (only i didn't have any discs toback up to so never did), and thinking, man i've had my mac for 3 years and never needed this before, but PC's have that function and they are crap so why doesn't my beautiful little mac ?
then, while i thought the files were safely sitting in .trash folder till i could pull them out (yep i should've dragged them all into a desktop folder immediately, sure),
my mac started DELETING them from trash WITHOUT MY PERMISSION or PROMPT !???
what the ??
how and WHY did it do this ? - and why oh WHY didn't it warn me first ??
by the time i realised what that little window was tellling me and pressed the x button in it to stop them deleting - half were gone.
they were music files, they were my MUSIC ! - they cost me so much $$ and it's not fair !
i thought that not having a restore function was bad enough, now this ?
i tried command +Z immediately cos i'd just read about that (ok i'm a student, i'm not a computer whizz) but of course, no love.
help anyone ?
i came straight back here to write this..... HELP ??? i want it back !??
lastly - the only thing i can think of that might save me is my ipod - it has all my music, including the 50% that my mac just DELETED... is there a way i can take it from my ipod back to my mac ?
if you can talk me through this that would make my day, week, month, YEAR - i can't beging to think how many years i've spent colecting all those beautiful tunes ! :-(((((
