Could you imagine how you would feel if you went to have your car repaired and the mechanic let you know that you could only operate your car by towing it around with another vehicle? I’m sure that sounds pretty silly but when you attempt to purchase software to undelete trash on Mac computers very often the software makers ask you to do a very similar thing. Low quality Mac data recovery tools require you to connect your Mac computer to a Windows based PC and use a program loaded onto that PC so as to examine the contents of your Mac. The software is barely able to recognize universal file types such as jpegs and documents let alone scan for and recover Mac application files or rescue files from the Mac trash can.
Any software maker that tries to say their Windows recycle bin recovery program will work on a Mac is grossly misrepresenting their programs abilities. Mac data recovery tools should be able to download onto a Mac and work from the Mac computer. In fact, these programs available from companies such as Remo Software should be able to recover lost files from any Apple universal application connected to that Mac as well.