I’m using Mavericks
Suppose we have the folder /a/photos which contains
/a/photos/jan
/a/photos/feb
And we have /b/photos which contains
/b/photos/mar
In the command prompt, if we write
mv /b/photos /a/photos
Then /a/photos will contain all of them (merge):
/a/photos/jan
/a/photos/feb
/a/photos/mar
However, I did the move operation in Finder (command+c, command+alt+v) and pressed the “overwrite” button thinking it has the same behavior as in mv
Now all my original files in /a/photos are lost. The only thing remaining is:
/a/photos/mar
How do I recover it?
Thanks a lot
Best Answer
STOP ALL FILE OPERATIONS AND UNMOUNT YOUR HARD DRIVE
If you haven't written to the Drive since then, it will eventually save you.
When Moving files like this, they get marked as deleted on the drive.
Therefore you can only try to recover them.
Which means: