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Recovering Local Copy of iCloud Drive File


Please see the below scenario


One excel file is in icloud drive on my mac in below path


iCloud Drive > Docs > Excel > ABC.xlsx


I deleted ABC.xlsx from my mac iCloud drive and it goes in mac Trash which means when I go to iCloud.com, I cannot see the file in the path and also not available in "Restore Files" as the file was deleted from Mac.


Now I empty the trash and the file ABC.xlsx is removed from Trash


How will I recover ABC.xlsx

MacBook

Posted on Dec 22, 2019 3:52 AM

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Posted on Dec 22, 2019 4:25 AM

These articles might be usefull for you.


Recover deleted files on iCloud.com - Apple Support


Permanently remove deleted files on iCloud.com - Apple Support


If you managed to permanently delete it. There may be no way for you to recover it. But You could try to contact apple and see if they might have something to save you.

Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support


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Dec 22, 2019 4:25 AM in response to Romit (India)

These articles might be usefull for you.


Recover deleted files on iCloud.com - Apple Support


Permanently remove deleted files on iCloud.com - Apple Support


If you managed to permanently delete it. There may be no way for you to recover it. But You could try to contact apple and see if they might have something to save you.

Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support


Recovering Local Copy of iCloud Drive File

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