Restoring files to original places from trash

Do you know of any programs that do this???? I was flipping through finder and I thought to save some space I could delete the 'Searched For' caches on the sidebar. Big mistake. So having painstakingly dragged and dropped ALL of my music, Im left with a variety of gif's apps and wav's that Im sure go to different programs and I don't want to f*cking drag all of it back. So if you know of any apps that do this I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!!

 

I did a quick search and couldn't find anything. Smart Trash may be able to do what you need, but it doesn't specifically say that it does. Overall, I think you're SOL, because OS X doesn't keep a log of where the files come from like Windows does.

I think I may look into writing something to do a work around on this, as it's happened to me before too.

 

IMO, this is something apple should have coded into Finder a long time ago.

 

This isn't just apple, it's Unix/FreeBSD, and almost all Linux distributions. All it would take is a .history file logging where each trashed file came from, but that involves rewriting the entire Trash application(yeah, it's actually an application) and a good bit of kernel work for it to be a full fledged working element.

 

yeah but do you know of any way to get around systematically dragging and dropping stuff? I dont have an external HD so time machine is out. Theres alot of random pics and sound bytes that im assuming go with apps and I have no idea where to put them

 

As far as I know, no.

There may be some obscure software solution out there, but you would have to have had it installed before the deletion of those files in order for it to know where to place them upon restore.

If the files have unique names you might try googling them to see if there's any info on the product they belong to.

 

The main reason for this is that in an OS such as Linux you're expected to know what you're doing before you do it and mistakes aren't taken into account. When you delete something it's just deleted no questions asked. In Windows there are failsafes in place to fix mistakes because the majority of people running Windows make those mistakes all the time. That's why in Windows when you delete a file or make a change to something it's always asking are you sure you want to do that? You promise you really want to do that? And then even after you say yes you can still go back and usually fix what you did. In an OS like Linux though you can make one little mistake and delete the whole directory on the hard drive and just be SOL. I'm surprised that OS X doesn't have the ability to restore from trash though since it's catered more towards the beginner and not the more advanced user like Linux.

 

hey the majority of stuff I found out were plugins for microsoft office 2004 for mac. Anyone know where to get the PowerPoint sound effects?
Its my grandpas CD ill probably just reinstall later