Restoring to iphoto

llh189

I have accidentally deleted all my photos from iphoto and made matters worse by emptying my trash - is there any way to restore deleted items.

I did a back up via time machine about six months ago but not since, so this will be out of date. and therefore some images will be missing!

Can't quite believe I have been this silly!

Thanks

Lisa

Marty_J

If you have deleted them and been using the machine, there's every chance the files have been written over. If the photos are really important to you, you could try Data Rescue or FileSalvage; however, at $99 and $89 respectively, they're not exactly cheap.

There is a free utility call Exif Untrasher, that can recover photos, but it only works on your camer'a memory card as far as I know. When something is deleted on a UNIX filesystem, it generally stays deleted unfortunately.

I'm afraid you'll probably just have to recover what you can from your Time Machine backup and chalk it up to experience.

It kind of defeats the point of using an OS with an incremental backup feature if you're only going to use it every six months though!