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“Hi, I deleted some documents from my iMac, and I can’t find the documents into the trash bin. When I realized I had made a mistake deletion, the documents were gone. Is there any way to recover the deleted documents on iMac?” – Ted

How to recover deleted documents on iMac? Don’t worry, after deleting documents on iMac, the documents are not permanently lost. Actually, in most cases, you can easily recover deleted documents on iMac. Today, we will show you how to easily and quickly recover deleted documents from iMac.

how to recover deleted documents on iMac

1. Recover deleted documents from iMac trash bin

If the deleted files are moved to trash bin and the trash bin has not been emptied, you can easily and quickly recover your deleted documents from iMac. Just open the trash bin on your iMac, find the deleted documents. Then select the documents and put them back.

2. Recover deleted documents on iMac with free data recovery software

If you can’t find the deleted documents into trash bin or the trash bin has been emptied on your iMac, you still can recover your deleted documents. Free Mac data recovery software – Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free can help you recover deleted documents from iMac when the trash bin is emptied or you can’t find your lost documents in the trash bin.

If you want to recover deleted documents from iMac after emptying trash bin, just download and install Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free on your iMac. Then run this free Mac data recovery software from Launchpad and start to recover your deleted documents. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Select file types you want to recover.

By default, Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free will scan your hard drive and find all types of lost files on your iMac. If you only want to recover some file types, just select them at this step. Then move to the next step.

how to recover deleted documents on iMac

Step 2: Choose the hard drive where you delete the documents.

If you want to recover deleted documents from iMac, just choose the Mac HD or Apple SSD on your iMac. Then click on “Scan” button to scan the selected hard drive to find deleted documents on your iMac.

how to recover deleted documents on iMac

Step 3: Preview and recover deleted documents after scanning.

Once the scan is completed, just preview the documents. Then save the wanted documents and save them. If you can’t find all your deleted documents after quick scan, just try ‘Advanced Recovery’ mode to find much more deleted/lost documents on your iMac.

how to recover deleted documents on iMac

Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free can easily and completely recover deleted documents from emptied trash bin on iMac. This free Mac data recovery software can help you securely recover all deleted documents. It also can help you recover deleted documents from USB flash drive, memory card, external hard drive, etc. To prevent the deleted documents from being overwritten by new files, don’t put new files before you get all deleted documents back.

Just immediately run Do Your Data Recovery for Mac Free to scan your iMac hard drive, you can completely recover all your deleted documents.

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Written & Updated by Justin Kenny

Justin Kenny is a writer & editor of DoYourData. He joined DoYourData in 2016 and focuses on writing articles about Windows data recovery, Mac data recovery, external device data recovery, hard drive clone, data erasure, Mac cleanup, computer issue fixes, etc. He is a super fan of Apple devices and is big on testing new digital device and system utility software.

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