Can You Undelete in macOS?
Recall that in Windows systems, deleting actually just removes a file from the master file table (MFT) or file allocation table (FAT) and marks those clusters as available. The file’s data is still there and can be recovered. What happens when a file is deleted on an HFS or HFS+ volume? Although the details are a bit different, a similar thing occurs. The references to the file are gone and the clusters might be used and overwritten. But, depending on how soon after the deletion you attempt to recover data, you may be able to recover some or all of the data. Even if the data is overwritten, data may still exist in unallocated space and in index nodes. When a file is deleted in macOS, it is moved to the Trash folder—much ...
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