Oct 13 2011
How to Recover Lost/Deleted Photos from Mac
The excellent and eminent photo editing and designing features of Mac make it a first choice for professional photographers and graphic designers. These features are so simple and easy to use that even a layman can use them flawlessly. So, we can say that due to its excellent graphic features, it is always a wonderful experience to view and edit photos and videos on Mac. However, despite being most robust Operating System, we sometimes end up losing our precious photos or videos saved on Mac due to various reasons like file system corruption, application malfunctioning, or accidental deletion. But, in this modern era of computers and software it is possible to recover our lost or deleted digital photos through third-party Mac photo recovery software.
Let us discuss the major reasons which are responsible for loss of pictures/videos saved on Mac:
- Corruption in the partition table leads to inaccessibility of our valuable data/photos/videos stored on Mac.
- The Mac becomes inaccessible due to file system corruption and thus, we end up losing our valuable photos/videos.
- Damaged or corrupt catalog tree also crates inaccessibility to our valuable files/folders which contain our valuable photos/videos.
- At times due to various human errors like accidental deletion or unwanted formatting of Mac based storage media (internal/external hard drive, iPod, memory card, etc) we end up losing our pictures.
However, the ‘Disk utility’ (an inbuilt utility) of Mac can rectify some of the above mentioned issues but if the problem is severe and disk utility fails to workaround the situation then commercial Mac photo recovery software works as a boon. These software can recover lost or deleted photos and videos without altering their original content. But, it is advised to do a proper research before using any third-party photo recovery software; as some of the freeware available under this category are malware or spyware which can damage our Mac despite of recovering photos.
It is recommended to go for the one which has pretty good experience in the field of data recovery, has simple yet effective GUI, and last but not the least provides glimpse of deleted or lost photos/videos before their actual recovery. One such software is Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery software. This is one of the most efficient photo recovery software for Mac which has simple user-interface and easy recovery steps which make it very easily usable even by non professional users. In addition the software supports recovery from almost all Mac based storage media like internal/external hard drive, USB drive, iPod, pen drive, digital camera, etc. The powerful recovery software not only recovers lost or deleted pictures from Mac based storage devices but also recovers videos, audios, and various other multimedia files saved on them.