Help, need advice on restoring backups.backupdb from trash

[gavnet]

Hi

I've accidentally trashed my backups.backupdb file from my external hdd. By the time I'd realized what I'd done, it was to late to simply cmd Z. I tried to move the file back to its original location but after 6 hours of 'preparing to copy file' I was told there was not enough space on the external hdd because the file I wanted to copy was 6.4 TB! The external hdd is only 500gb.

Is there anyway to restore the trashed file to its original location? obviously I can't use TM as the backups.backupdb folder thats now in the external hdd is empty.

Hope you can help!

Cheers

 

[Bennieboy©]

just right click on the folder in the trash and hit restore, the trash can don't actually hold the entire folder it only keeps a blueprint of it, when you empty the trash the corresponding folder or files are deleted from where they originally were