Obviously, few things are more harmful to your productivity than deleting files that you are working on by accident.

TrashMagic offers an additional back-stop. It keeps a cache of your Trash and allows you to recover files that you have deleted by accident or destroyed in a reckless spring-clean only to discover that you really do need them a week later.

The Preferences pane allows you to set the amount of space it may use for its cache, the length of time to keep files and more:

The Data Recovery pane lists the files in the cache and offers you options to flush the cache permanently or recover individual files:

An updated version (1.0.1) was released today which adds password-protection to the Recovery function.

The demo version will only recover files that have been deleted within the last five minutes, but still gives you a good sense of whether this is a life-saver for you or not.

Life-saving comes at a price. TrashMagic costs USD 49, making the most expensive piece of software ever to appear on Hawk Wings (except for FastMailBase).

Test-drive the demo and read more about its features on the developer’s web site .productivity, trash, data recovery, whoops, deleted files

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Tags: data recovery, deleted files, Productivity, Trash, whoops!

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