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lewstefanevskij

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Jul 3, 2022
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Two months ago I transferred 25 gb of videos from my Xiaomii redmi note 8 pro Android smartphone to my macbook pro 13 2015(ssd). And two weeks ago I accidentally emptied the trash with these videos. Please help me! There were all the videos from my phone for the last year ( (
 
If you had just did this, then there might have been a chance to recover, but at this point, you are out of luck. Any trace of the files were overwritten by now as you've been using the machine and writing data to it.

If you are using Time Machine, there might be a backup there. And can enter the following to see if any local snapshots that might have something to recover from:

Code:
tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
 
I'm just curious here, why were you storing videos in the trash?
 
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