Help Help!! deleted files on Mac OS Leopard

If you're using Snow Leopard, simply right-click on a file and choose Put Back to restore it.

Restore deleted items to original folders.

Since you're on Leopard, that option doesn't exist, as it was just introduced in SL.

 

You will have to do it manually. It will be a pain.

 

You should be able to simply drag anything from the Trash to any other folder.

 

There is no "All Images" folder. That is a smart folder, which means it just finds items based on a set of criteria, which in this case is "all images." That is why you cannot drag the photos to "All Images," it is not a folder.

You will have to reimport the photos.

 

There is no "automatic" way to do what you want. There are some good ideas above, but.... there is an easy way to do this.

Create a new empty folder on the Desktop, and call it something like "recovery in progress". Drag all your deleted photos from the Trash into the folder. You could a little organization here if you wanted, so sort the photos by date and create a year folder for each year, etc. But don't go too crazy.

Before importing your photos back, fire up iPhoto and go to preferences. Make sure the "copy items to iPhoto library" is checked.

Now just drag each folder of photos onto the iPhoto program icon. It should fire up iPhoto and import the photos. After each import, do whatever you need to do (keywording, moving to albums, etc) before the next import. All of that work has been lost, but at least you have the photos still. When you have finished importing all the photos you can put that "recovery" folder back into the trash (if you have set iPhoto to "copy" on import - see above) as all the photos are now duplicated inside the iPhoto library.

Good Luck.

Get a back up system running, eh?