How can restore the files that I deleted accidentally by rmdir?

Hi, I accidently deleted all my the files in one folder through Matlab by using rmdir. I really need to find these files and have looked into the recycle bin and found nothing.

The deleting files option in my preference is set to "Move to the Recycle Bin". But this is not helping in my situation.

Do anyone know how to restore the removed files in this situation?

Thank you so much for the help!

[Fangjun Jiang]

It seems that option applies only to files deleted by using delete(). You might have to look for a generic file recovery tool.

[John D'Errico]

EEK! Sadly, this is not something you can possibly fix from MATLAB, since MATLAB is just issuing a system call there to delete the entire directory. If the choice made by your OS is to then drop all included files immediately into the bit bucket without a layover in your trash bin, then you are out of luck. As suggested, the only option is to look into a file recovery tool that will search your drive and attempt to recover the files.