How to 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. Ususally, 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.

Why can files emptied from Recycle Bin be recovered?

When a file is deleted from your computer, it is NOT really deleted. It is simply removed from the file directory in the folder. Even though you can no longer see the file in the folder, its contents still exist 100% intact at this point. As long as the file remains there, you can easily recover it in its entirety. So the first thing you should do when you want to recover deleted file is looking for it in the Recycle Bin. If it's there, you can recover deleted files from the Recycle Bin by just using the "Restore" option which will move it back to its original location. If you empty the Recycle Bin or delete a file using othe method which bypassed the Recycle Bin such as "Shift+Del", although you cannot see the file in Recycle Bin, the file is still not really deleted. The file no longer exists as far as the operating system is concerned and the space it occupied becomes available for re-use by other files. But the disk space does not get re-used straight away, so the data that the deleted file contained will stay on your hard drive for some time to come.

How to recover deleted files from Recycle Bin?

Here you may need a Recycle Bin data recovery software. Recommended one is Wondershare Data Recovery. This Recycle Bin software can recover files deleted from Recycle Bin after deletiing 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 cource, 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 sacnning results, which have been classified into types. Check those you want and hit on "Recover" to get them back.

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.