Undelete Possible?

[thomamon]

I deleted most of the contents in my iPhoto library because I thought they were duplicated. Turns out they are not after all.

Is there anyway to undelete files?

I feel sick over this.

 

[adnbek]

Did you empty "Trash" in iPhoto? If not, they're all there.

 

[thomamon]

Did you empty "Trash" in iPhoto? If not, they're all there.

I Didn't use iPhoto to delete. I used a duplicate program and put the contents of the iPhoto file in there...

 

[adnbek]

Please be more detailed. What program did you use and how exactly did you go about doing this?

 

[thomamon]

Please be more detailed. What program did you use and how exactly did you go about doing this?

I used a program called Twins... I pulled all the files from the iPhoto directory into the program, it detected the duplicates and I selected automatically delete.

 

[adnbek]

Ah I see.

Well if you have a Time Machine backup, just restore from that.
If not, use one (or several) of these:

http://www.cleverfiles.com
http://subrosasoft.com/software/filesalvage
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

I think they all have free trials where you can scan for free, so you don't have to pay upfront unless they find what you're looking for.

I'd recommend using an external hard drive to download to and run these apps from. Any more read/writes to your current drive can overwrite some of the already-deleted data.

Good luck.