Recover Deleted Files from Mac

Restore Deleted Files from Mac

Mac is an advanced graphical user interface operating system developed by Apple Inc. Apple released Mac operating system in different versions from a decade such as Panther, Jaguar, Leopard, Snow leopard, Lion, etc. Most of the computer users prefer Macintosh in order to have an outstanding application performance. Mac provides a default set of applications to access different file types which made users more to get addicted to Macintosh. Mac operating system uses efficient and technically stable file system to manipulate stored files.

Have you ever experienced deletion of vital files from your Macintosh and thinking of lost file recovery from memory card or any other storage drive? In majority of the cases the answer is yes. Most of the users unknowingly delete some important files while deleting unwanted files. Luckily deleted files from Mac hard drive will be kept in Trash Bin. One can easily restore deleted files upon realizing his mistake. Sometimes users even clear Trash Bin without examining the contents and their priority. In such cases user will forfeit the deleted file. Suppose if you are the one who have deleted essential files from your Macintosh, here is a best approach to retrieve deleted files from Mac computer.

Deleting a file bypassing the Trash Bin or deleting a file from Trash bin will never erase the stored data. Each and every file stored in Mac computer will be associated with two components. One is Resource Fork which is responsible for stored file manipulation and other one is Data Fork which holds the actual data which user kept in the stored file. Deleting a file just removes the Resource Fork and marks the space occupied by that file as free, but Data Fork remains intact until the deleted file is overwritten with new data. Mac file recovery software easily retrieves such raw data with the help of various file attributes. Using appropriate recovery software one can also restore deleted data from Windows 7.

Recover Deleted Files (Mac) is one such advanced Mac file recovery software, which is recommended by industry experts around the world. It facilitates you to restore deleted or lost files from Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. In addition to hard drive, it is can also recover erased media files from flash card, USB drive, external hard drive, iPods, etc. Being flash card recovery software it is capable enough to retrieve deleted photos from SD card, memory stick and other type of memory cards. With the simple user interface of this application, even a novice user can restore his files with ease.

Steps to recover deleted files from Macintosh

Step 1: Launch the installed trial version of Recover Deleted Files (Mac) either by double clicking the desktop Icon or from Start Menu list. A welcome window appears as shown in Fig 1. Click on "Recover Files"

Fig 1: Welcome Window

Step 2: Since we have to recover deleted files, select “Recover Deleted Files”. After selecting deleted or lost files, software will prompts you to specify the drive from which you wish to recover files as shown in Fig 2. Select the appropriate drive and click "Next" button.

Fig 2: Select Volume

Step 3: Software scans the selected volume and displays the list of recovered files as shown in Fig 3.

Fig 3: Recovered Files

Step 4: Select a file and click on "Preview". If you are satisfied with recovered results, activate the software and save the recovered files to desired drive.