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How to Recover Deleted Files from Recycle Bin

Recover Deleted Files from Recycle Bin

After you accidentally delete important files by hitting the "Delete" button, you may look for them in the Recycle Bin. On most occasions, you will find the deleted files in the folder, but once the Recycle Bin is emptied, the files cannot be found in it. Usually, people think that the files are gone forever, but the real fact is that you have a great chance to recover deleted files from Recycle Bin even after emptying the Recycle Bin.

How to recover deleted files from Recycle Bin?

Here you may need Recycle Bin data recovery software. Recommended one is Wondershare Data Recovery. This Recycle Bin software can recover files deleted from Recycle Bin after deleting such as 'Shift + Del' without backup, emptying Recycle Bin, and deleting files by Windows Command Line or from DOS. Follow the below 3 easy steps, and you can recover deleted files from Recycle Bin on your own.

If you're a Mac user, you can try Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac, which works the same as the Windows version.

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Tips: DO NOT install Wondershare Data Recovery to the same partition where you lost data for avoiding overwriting original data.

Install and run the Data Recovery on your computer. With only a few clicks, you can recover all your lost data safely without quality loss.

Recover Deleted Files from Recycle Bin

Step1. Select the file type for recovery

Here you can select the file type that you want to recover, such as photos, audio files, videos, documents and email. And you also can choose all if you want to recover all files you've lost. Just check the one.

How to Recover Deleted Files from Recycle Bin

Step2. Choose to recover Recycle Bin

To recover files deleted from recycle bin, you can check "Recycle Bin" here, which can help to search all deleted files from Recycle Bin.

Recover Files Deleted from Recycle Bin

Before scanning the Recycle Bin for deleted files, you can check to "Enable Deep Scan", which can help to perform a more comprehensive scanning for lost files from the Recycle Bin, such as lost due to formatting. Of course, you also can skip it to scan if you don't have this need, for it asks for much more time.

Step3. Recover deleted files from Recycle Bin

When the scanning completes, you can preview the scan result, which have been classified into types. Check those you want and hit on "Recover" to get them back.

Recover Files Deleted from Recycle Bin

You are highly suggested to save the recovered files on another partition different from the source partition to avoid data overwriting. When you didn't find your desired data back, you can choose the deep scan or another recovery mode to retrieve them again.

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  • Selena  2013-05-14 03:02
    The Recycle Bin is in the selection of "Where did you lost your files".
  • brim21  2013-05-13 14:44
    theres no Recycle Bin in the selection of the what types of file do u want to recover?
  • abhinav  2013-04-04 11:01
    i dont have partiton on my disk i have only one partition
  • Selena  2013-02-17 06:56
    Yes, it is possible as long as your deleted files have not been overwritten. You can download a trial version to scan for your deleted files firstly.
  • Rajkeshav  2013-02-09 04:49
    How do i recover files which have been deleted two weeks ago ? is it possible with this soft ?
  • Selena  2013-01-09 09:55
    Then you can decide to scan your whole computer to find lost files. Just select "I can't remember" in step 2.
  • Donie odonoghue  2013-01-08 20:48
    dont no where i lost them
  • Selena  2012-09-24 09:32
    You mean restore? Actually, restore can cause lots of data being overwritten by new data and become unrecoverable.
  • Selena  2012-09-24 09:31
    If you didn't add new data to the place where you deleted your photos, you can use Wondershare Data Recovery to get them back! Just try the free trail version first.
  • WorriedMom  2012-09-20 17:33
    total panic... I deleted ALL my pictures off my computer (deleted them out of the recycle bin)... am trying this program... hope it works!!!

Recover Deleted Files from Recycle Bin