If the file is in the trash folder on your MAC then you can try to follow the process below to restore it to your desktop. If you have deleted a return in the TurboTax program there is no way to recover it.
You can also try searching in your hard drive for .tax2016 to locate the file.
If you
simply put files in the Trash you can restore them by opening the Trash
(left-click on the Trash icon) and drag the files from the Trash to your
Desktop or other desired location. OS X also provides a short-cut to
undo the last item moved to the Trash -press COMMAND-Z.
If
you empty the Trash the files are gone. If a program does an immediate
delete rather than moving files to the Trash, then the files are gone.
Recovery is possible but you must not allow any additional writes to the
hard drive - shut it down. When files are deleted only the directory
entries, not the files themselves, is modified. The space occupied by
the files has been returned to the system as available for storage, but
the files are still on the drive. Writing to the drive will then
eventually overwrite the space once occupied by the deleted files in
which case the files are lost permanently. Also if you save a file over
an existing file of the same name, then the old file is overwritten and
cannot be recovered.
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