How to Recover Flash Card on Mac?
Mac computer supports FAT16, FAT 32, HFSX, and HFS+ file systems. HFS+ file system is compatible with Mac OS 8.1 and later versions of Mac OS X. Mac computer supports FAT file system as well. In flash cards, FAT file system is used and as Mac computer supports FAT file system, flash card data can be read from Mac computer. Mac supports many photo utility tools like Aperture, GIMP, Seashore, Pixen, Chocoflop, etc. These photo utility tools can be used for converting, viewing, browsing and editing hundreds of image types on the Macintosh platform. As Mac supports photo utility tools, most of the photographers use Mac in order to create and edit images that are taken from DSLR cameras and other professional cameras
There are many scenarios in which image, audio, video file and other file loss occurs from flash cards. They are,
- When you connect flash card to the computer using card reader or the cable that comes with the camera, if you delete favorite photos from flash card accidentally while deleting some unwanted photos, then such deleted photos will not move to Mac Trash and hence you cannot restore those deleted photos from Mac Trash. However, it is possible to undelete deleted files from flash card using a good recovery tool.
- While transferring digital photos from flash card to computer if you turnoff computer or the camera in which flash card is present then there are chances of losing photos from flash cards. However, you can recover photos from flash card using effective recovery tool.
- During image transfer process, if you unplug flash card from card reader or from camera, improperly then also there may be chances of occurrences of photo loss cases.
- Memory card corruption, iPhoto library corruption also lead to loss of image files, audio files and video files from flash cards.
- Accidental usage of “format card” option in camera will erase photo files, music files, video files that are stored into flash card
Before any photo loss occurs from flash cards, you must take some precautions. While transferring any media files from flash card to computer, you should not shut down the computer. While removing flash card from card reader, you should not remove it abruptly. Before formatting flash card, make sure that you have backup of all-important files that are on the flash card. You should not use same flash card to store other photos after formatting the flash card. It is not possible to restore flash card after format if you continue using the same flash card after data loss
If you have deleted or lost any media files from flash cards due to any reason then no need to be panic because Recover Flash Card (Mac) software can recover easily all deleted or lost files from flash card. The software can recover damaged flash card data and restore lost or deleted photo files, music files, RAW photos from all types of flash cards including SD card, XD card, MMC card, CF card, etc. The software can perform recovery of different RAW image file types including CR2, CRW, NEF, PEF, KDC, DNG, etc. You can use the Windows version of the software to recover memory card on Windows. The software supports recovery of files on HFSX and HFS + file systems on Mac computers. The software supports file recovery from different Operating Systems of Mac which includes Mac OS X 10.5 x and above versions, Lion, Leopard and Snow Leopard. The software works for you even in the worst cases of card errors. The software can rasily execute CF card error recovery in such scenarios.
There are few simple steps, which you must follow to recover deleted or lost media files from flash cards. They are,
Step 1: Connect the flash card from which you want to recover media files, to your Mac computer. Download trial version of Recover Flash Card (Mac) and install it in your Mac computer
Step 2: Select "Recover Photos" option from the main screen as shown in the figure 1
Figure 1:Main Window
Step 3: Then select "Recover Deleted Photos" to recover deleted media files from flash card or select "Recover Lost Photos" to recover lost media files from flash card from the screen that appears as shown in the figure 2
Figure 2: Select Recover Photos Option
Step 4: The software will display connected flash card as a logical volume that you must select to recover media files and then click on "Next". After that select the file type that you want to recover from the window that appears and then click on "Next" as shown in the figure3
Figure 3: File Type Selection
Step 5: The software will scan flash card and it will display recovered media files as shown in the figure 4. If you are satisfied with recovery result then you can purchase full version of the software
Fig 4:Recovered Data List
