How to Recover Deleted Files from Different Places - Here is the Most Comprehensive Guide to Do It!
Last Updated on September 20, 2025 by Yulia Ilina
Some important files are inevitably deleted while processing, editing, and saving files. Before the disk is rewritten, the deleted files are recovered, otherwise, it becomes progressively more difficult to recover the deleted files. To ensure the integrity of recovering deleted files, this post will provide you with methods to perform deleted file recovery on your computer, out-of-home storage devices, and cloud.
Part 1: How to Recover Deleted Files on PC
How to Recover Deleted Files on Mac
When you choose to recover deleted files on Mac, you can do it through the Trash program, which functions similarly to Recycle Bin in Windows. The difference is that Trash will store some temporary files on MacOS, which will be placed in the Recovered Files folder.
Step 1: Launch the program by clicking the Trash icon in your Mac's Dock. Once it has finished launching, select the files you want to recover from it. If you can remember the names of the files, you can find them directly in the search box.
Step 2: Once you have found the files you want to recover, select them and check the details to see if they are the files to be recovered. After confirming that there is no error, right-click on the file to call out the corresponding shortcut menu, click the Put Back button, and the file is instantly restored to the original folder. Or you can directly drag the files to store them in the new folder.
How to Recover Deleted Files on Windows 10
To recover deleted files in Windows 10, the first choice is Recycle Bin that comes with the system, which can store deleted files briefly. When you need to recover files, find the relevant files in Recycle Bin to recover them, and you can restore deleted files to the original storage address.
Step 1: Click the Recycle Bin icon on the Windows desktop to enter the related program. In it, you can directly slide the page to find the needed files. Or filter the files by keyword filter, which can be faster.
Step 2: When the deleted files need to be recovered and found, select the file and right-click it, click the Restore button in the pop-up shortcut menu, and the deleted files will be restored to the previous storage address. Note that the files stored in Recycle Bin have an expiration date.
Part 2: How to Recover Deleted Files on SD Card/ Flash Drive
In many cases, when transferring and moving files on a public computer, you will always choose a very convenient storage device to store your files and data, SD Card and Flash Drive are 2 kinds of data storage devices that you may often choose, which are both convenient and small in size. If an external storage device is moved, it is difficult to find its data in the recycle bin. Aiseesoft Data Recovery is a tool to recover lost or deleted files from various storage devices such as computer hard drives, external hard drives, USB flash drives, SD cards, digital cameras, and more.
1. Disk recovery tools can scan and recover files from external storage devices.
2. Recover accidentally deleted files from your computer or storage device
3. Preview feature that allows to view recoverable files before proceeding with the recovery process.
4. Saving time and storage space by excluding unnecessary files.
Step 1: Install Aiseesoft Data Recovery and start it, the first page is categorized according to the file detection type and internal storage partition, and external storage partition.SD Card and Flash Drives as external storage devices can be selected in Removable Drives.
Step 2: After the storage partition is selected, you can click the Check All Files Types button to detect all types of files. Click the Scan button, it will automatically start the fast scanning. If you need deep scanning, click the Deep Scan button on the top right corner of the page.
Step 3: When the recoverable files are loaded, you can directly select a type of file in the file storage hierarchy directory on the left side for batch recovery. After the selection is done, click the Recover button to recover and save the deleted files directly.
Part 3: How to Recover Deleted Files on Google Drive
When the data is stored in Google Drive and you choose to delete it, then it will appear in the Trash in the upper right corner of the Google Drive website, but after 30 days or if you empty the Trash, the files will disappear. At this point, you may be able to recover the deleted file by contacting Google’s backend. However, you can also recover emails with the help of Aiseesoft Data Recovery, which has a very special feature compared with other file recovery software, it can detect the traces of email storage and recover files accordingly.
1. Retrieve data from RAW partitions and recover it
2. Design a super useful filter function for file search and screening.
3. Deleted files are scanned and the recovery process is safe and secure.
4. Offers a deep scan mode, which thoroughly searches for recoverable files.
Step 1: Install and launch the software. After launching the software, select E-mail in the files that need to be recovered, targeted detection of e-mail content in Google Drive. In Hard Disk Drives the default address is stored in Google Drive files, which can narrow down the detection of files.
Step 2: After the selection is completed, click the Scan button, Quick Scan will be started for the selected files and storage area. if the files have been deleted for a long time, you can click the Deep Scan button to deeply detect the files in the corresponding partition.
Step 3: In the detected files, select the files and the related file information will appear in the lower right corner. After checking the file information, click the Recover button to recover Google Drive emails to the original storage location. After the storage is completed, the corresponding files are recovered that stored in Google Drive emails.
Conclusion
When performing deleted file recovery, choose the appropriate method according to different situations. For computer files within a short period, you can do it directly through Recycle Bin and Trash. However, if the files have been deleted for a long time, as well as an SD card, Flash Drive, and Google Drive, you need to recover deleted files through Aiseesoft Data Recovery, which can maximize the integrity of the recovered files.