Most of the user prefers to store photos in USB drive as it portable and has different storage capacity ranging from several MB’s to several GB’s. Users may come across some issues which may lead to lose their important photos present in the USB drive. It might be due to formatting of the drive, virus attack, etc. Sometimes users may accidentally format the wrong drive instead of formatting the drive which they wanted to format.

Formatting of the USB drive is done when the user wants to delete the recent data and input new files in it. What if you format the USB drive accidentally in Mac system and lose all your photos? Can the photos be restored? Yes, you can perform Mac photo recovery from formatted USB drive and get back all photos which were lost due to formatting. Formatting will never erase your files from USB drive, it only erases the pointer which points to the stored location of the file and marks the space as free but the actual data still resides on the stored sector until it is overwritten with new data. Such files can be easily recovered with the aid of best Mac lost photo recovery software. Once you find that you have lost any data after formatting, you should not perform any read or write operation on the USB drive.

Remo Recover (Mac) – Media edition is an advanced Mac photo recovery software that helps you to recover photo from formatted or corrupt hard disk drive, SD Card, CF Card, memory stick, FireWire, memory cards and USB hard drives easily and quickly. The software supports recovery of photos from HFS+, HFSX, FAT16 and FAT32 formatted storage devices.

Steps to be followed to recover photos formatted from USB drive

Step 1:- Launch Remo Recover (Mac) – Media software by double clicking icon from ‘Applications’ folder or from the location where the software has been installed. Program main window will be displayed as shown in the Figure below

Step 2: Then select the volume from which you want to recover lost or deleted photos as shown in Figure below

Step 3: Then select the file types which you want to recover from the given files type list as shown in figure below

Step 4: Then the software starts scanning the selected volume to recover deleted or lost photos. After completion of process, you will get a new window showing all recovered photos as shown in the below figure (d)

You can store photos in your system or in any other storage device. Usually people store them in their personal computer with Mac operating system as it provides a crystal clear view of pictures and it offers a built-in tool called iPhoto to manipulate the image files. As memory card use NAND flash technology, they are not susceptible to physical damages. But, sometimes they may encounter some logical problems resulting in loss of digital data.

There are many reasons which may lead to corruption of pictures or data loss in memory cards. Some common scenarios are like;

• Accidental deletion of photos by pressing command + delete key combination or formatting of memory card and improper shutting down of the computer leads to data loss.
• Data loss can also occur if you transfer or copy photos from one storage medium to another.
• Virus infection is the most risky thing.
• Catalog files corruption.
• When the memory card is pulled out abruptly from card reader/camera during write process.
• Capturing photo when camera is on low battery may lead to loss of that captured photo.
• Usage of same memory card in different digital devices can also be the cause of data loss.

Whatever may be the reason for the corruption of pictures in memory card, Mac photo recovery software will always help you to restore all deleted, lost or corrupted files. Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition is an effective recovery software, which helps you to recover lost or deleted photos from different types of memory cards like SD, CF, MMC and XD memory cards. This software support all major brands of digital cameras like Canon, Olympus, Fujifilm, Sony, Casio, Nikon etc.

Steps to recover deleted pictures from corrupted memory card:

Step 1: Download and install the demo version of Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition. Run the software. The main window will be displayed as shown in Fig (1).

Step 2: Select the volume or storage device from which the data needs to be recovered as shown in Fig (2).

Step 3: Select the file types and click on “Recover” button shown in Fig (3). The software starts scanning volumes.

Step 4: Once the photo recovery software finishes scanning, the recovered files will be displayed shown in Fig (4).

Step 5: Click on ‘View’ option to preview the recovered files as shown in Fig (5).

When it comes to storage of captured photos, most of the people prefer their personal computers with Mac operating system, because Mac OS X provides a crystal clear view of the images and it offers a built-in tool called iPhoto to manipulate the image files.

There are times in which the users lose their photos from SD card due to formatting the card. In case if you have lost your important photos from SD card, no need to panic, because Mac formatted SD card recovery is no more complex as like before. You can retrieve your lost photos from formatted SD cards at your finger tips until and unless the card is overwritten with new data after formatting.

Prior to discussing the recovery process, let us see how SD cards get format and users lose their photos, which might serves as precautionary measures to avoid the loss of pictures in future. Few common SD card formatting scenarios are listed here.

• Sometimes as soon as you insert the SD card into your camera or connect to your computer, you might encounter with an error message like “Format Now”, which is due to some errors with the file system. In such instances if the card is not backed up, then you will lose all the pictures stored in that SD card.
• Human beings are prone to mistakes. There are times in which you might accidentally format your SD cards which are used to capture the photos. In case if you have not taken a backup of photos stored in formatted SD card, then you will lose them.

No matter how the card is formatted, Mac photo recovery software will always help you to restore deleted or lost photos from SD card. Whenever a photo gets deleted from SD card, it will not be erased immediately from the card, only the pointer that points to the stored location of the image will be removed and space marked as available but the actual data still resides on the stored sector until it is overwritten with new data. Before overwriting such card with new data, Mac photo recovery tool scans the storage drive and recover photos using file attributes like extension, signature, etc.

Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition is an advanced Mac photo recovery software which facilitates you to undelete photos with in a few clicks from formatted SD cards. Apart from SD cards you can use this tool to restore deleted or lost pictures from other memory cards, hard drives, external drives, iPods, etc. This utility supports recovery of photos from HFS+, HFSX, FAT16 and FAT32 formatted storage devices. With the help of built-in preview option, you can preview the recovered photos before restoration.

Steps to recover photos from formatted SD cards:

Step 1: Download and install the demo version of Remo Recover (Mac) – Media software, launch it using Desktop icon or from Start Menu, then you will get a main window of software as shown in fig 1.

Step 2: Select the volume which is pointing to connected SD card from which you want to retrieve lost pictures and click on “Next” button. The software will display the list of file types to recover as shown in fig 2.

Step 3: Select the types of file that you wish to retrieve and click on “Recover” button. The tool scans the selected volume and display the list of recovered pictures as shown in fig3.

Step 4: Select a file and click on “View” button to preview the recovered files. If you are satisfied with the recovered results, then save the recovery session, activate the software and restore the files to your desired destination as shown in fig3.

• Master boot record (MBR) corruption or volume header corruption
• Apple partition map corruption
• Catalog file corruption
• When Mac volumes does not mount of fail to mount
• Disk initialization
• Memory card formatting / corruption
• Photos lost from iPods during syncing with iTunes
• Error messages like “The disk is damaged, do you want to initialize” or “-127 error disk could not used / found”

All the above scenarios result in loss of photos from Mac volumes / drives. Mac lost photo recovery software by Remo can retrieve your pictures, audio and video files from formatted or corrupt Mac volumes, hard drives, memory cards, iPods, memory sticks, USB drives, external HDD etc.

How to recover lost pictures from Mac volumes?

Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition allows you to recover deleted / lost photos from formatted or corrupt hard disk drive, SD Card, XD Card, CF Card, memory stick, external Zip drive, FireWire, memory cards and USB hard drives with ease.

Step 1: Launch Remo Recover (Mac) software by double clicking the icon from “Applications” folder then the program main window appears as shown in the Figure 1

Figure 1: Remo Recover (Mac) Main Window

Step 2: Select the Mac volume from which you want to recover deleted pictures and click on “Next” button to continue as shown in Figure 2

Figure 2: Select Mac Volume

Step 3: Once you click on “Next” button, the application displays a window to select photo files as shown in Figure 3, then the software starts scanning the volume for lost pictures

Figure 3: Select Photo File Types

Step 4: Once the Mac photo recovery application finishes the scanning process, the recovered images will be displayed as shown in Figure 4

Figure 4: Recovered photo files

Step 5: You may preview the photo by double clicking on the same or by clicking on “View” button. The recovered photos can be saved to any safe location by clicking on “Save” button as shown in Figure 5

Figure 5: Save Recovered photos

Corrupted files are those which become non-functional altogether. When you try to open a corrupt image file you find it is garbled by colors and line or may be it may simply refuse to open and reports an error. An image file can get corrupt due to various reasons like a glitch in the operating system or in the program utilizing the file, hard drive bad sectors, improper file saving procedure, system crash or a computer virus. Some of the typical error messages that indicate image file corruption are:

• Cannot open file
• File data inaccessible
• No Preview Available – Windows Explorer
• Drawing Failed – Windows Picture & Fax Viewer
• This document may be damaged (the file may be truncated or incomplete) – Photoshop
• Can’t read file header! Unknown file format or file not found! – IrfanView
• Could not complete your request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found – Photoshop

Recovering lost / deleted images is different from fixing a damaged / corrupt image. In case of fixing a corrupt image file, you already have the image file but is inaccessible due to some reason. Remo Recover Photo (Mac) is powerful, yet easy to use image recovery software that helps you to recover digital photo, audio and video files even when they are lost, deleted or the memory card, removable media is formatted. The software is capable of recovering media files from IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives, SD Cards, CF Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks, external Zip drives, FireWire and USB hard drives.

Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software helps you in recovering photo, audio and video files in the following circumstances:

1. Photos accidentally deleted, lost from digital camera memory cards, Mac hard drives, USB flash drives etc.
2. Formatted / reformatted memory cards.
3. Mac OS X prompts for disk initialization when digital camera memory card is just connected.
4. Corruption caused due to accidental removal of memory card from digital camera during photo processing.
5. File system corruption in storage media.
6. Camera turned off un-intentionally.
7. Storage media being pulled out from camera during write process.
8. Logical memory card corruption.

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above, including Leopard
Processor: Intel or Power PC
RAM: At least 256MB
Free Disk Space: 50 MB (For software installation)

Remo Recover Photo (Mac) is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above. The software supports both Intel and Power PC based Macintosh and is an Apple Universal application supporting recovery from all types of Camera/Flash cards, hard drives, Firewire drives, and USB drives.

This inclusive Photo recovery software can save your lost digital media file in the following cases:

• Accidentally deleted photos from digital camera memory cards, Mac hard drives, USB flash drives etc.
• Formatted or reformatted memory cards.
• Mac OS X prompts for disk initialization when digital camera memory card is just connected.
• Accidental removal of memory card from digital camera during photo processing.
• Any type of file system corruption in digital camera storage device, hard drive and USB flash drives.
• Camera turned off by accident.
• Storage media being pulled out from camera during write process.
• Any type of logical memory card corruption which does not allow you to access photo.

Detailed explanations of various photo recovery options available in Remo Recover Photo (Mac) Software are:

1. Recover Photos

   Remo Recover Photo (Mac) is a powerful utility that helps you to recover Standard/ Graphic Photo File Formats such as JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, GIF and also digital camera RAW photographic files. Run Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software, by double clicking on application icon from the ‘Applications’ folder or the location where the software has been installed.Program main Window will be displayed as shown in the Figure (a).

   

   Figure (a): Application main window

   Select the physical drive from the drive(s) list, and click on “Next” button or double click on the drive to proceed.

   As you click “Next” button, the program displays a Window to select file types that you wish to recover. By default all the file types will be selected. Click on “Deselect all” button and select those photo file formats which you wish to recover and click on “Recover” button as shown in Figure (b).

   

   Figure (b): Select required photo file formats

   As soon as the application completes the scanning process, the recovered files will be analyzed and displayed in a well organized data tree, after which can be saved to a safe location.

2. Recover Music and Video Files

   Remo Recover Photo (Mac) is a utility which helps you to recover music files and also video files that include from both removable media and hard disk drives.Please follow the steps mentioned below to recover music and video files lost due to accidental deletion or corruption of storage media.Run “Remo Recover Photo (Mac)” software, an application main Window opens as shown in Figure (c).

   

   Figure (c): Main screen to select appropriate drive

   Select the physical drive from the drive(s) list which has lost or deleted files, and click on “Next” button to proceed.

   Select the music and video File Type that you wish to recover, as shown in Figure (d).

   

   Figure (d): Select music and video files

   A Window will be displayed, where it performs thorough scan on the physical drive chosen to locate deleted or corrupted files.

   Once the application completes the scanning process, the recovered data will be displayed in a data tree, after which you can save the recovered data to a safe location.

3. Preview

   Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software is equipped with preview option to give you a fair idea of recovery possibilities. With the help of this option, lost files can be previewed before saving. And also can be helpful to evaluate the demo version before purchasing the software.In order to preview, select the file you wish to preview and click on “View” button or just double click on the file as shown in Figure (e).

   

   Figure (e): Select file to preview

   Application displays the preview of selected media file as shown in Figure (f), (g) & (h).

   

   Figure (f): preview photo

   

   Figure (g): Video preview

   

   Figure (h): Music Preview

4. Save Scan Information

   Save Scan Information is a control operation provided to save scanned information in a file, so that re-scanning the drive is avoided in activated software, thus ensuring quicker recovery process.Scan results obtained can be saved so that recovery process could be carried out in next restart without scanning the drive again. Just open the saved scan info and proceed with recovery process.After completion of scanning, recovered data is displayed in a well organized data tree. You can save scan information by clicking on Save Scan Info button as shown in Figure (i).

   

   Figure (i): Save scan information

   As you click on Save Scan Info button, you need to select destination location to save scan information file and click on “Save” button. A confirmation message pops up after completion of saving scan info, which also indicates the path where scan info file is saved. Please note that Scan Info file is saved with “.rme” extension and represented with application icon.

5. Save recovered media files

   After completion of scanning, you need to save the recovered data to a safe location. If you wish to save the entire data tree, click on “Select all” button and further click on save button. You may also save selective media files by manually selecting files or folders.After selecting the data in the tree for saving, to initiate the saving process, you need to specify a safe location as shown in Figure (j).

   

   Figure (j): Save recovered media files to safe location

   As soon as you click on save button, a window to specify destination location is opened. Specify a safe destination location to save all your selected data in the recovered data tree.

Need not worry; deleted photos can be recovered even though you have moved those photos to trash and emptied it. Now the most powerful Remo Recover Photo (MAC) Software makes the deleted trash recovery from Mac book swift and painless.

Remo Recover Photo (MAC) is powerful and easy to use recovery software to recover and restore lost digital picture, audio and video files when you delete them accidentally, or after formatted your storage device. The software uses a different and a unique way of recovering digital photographic files from Macintosh operating systems.

Why suggest Remo Recover Photo (Mac)?

1. Using this software you can recover your deleted trash on Mac book
2. Risk-free deleted trash recovery from Mac book
3. Easy, simple and fast deleted trash recovery software on Mac book
4. Software is having a user friendly interface that even a novice user can recover lost digital files with great ease.
5. It is a read-only application that does not overwrite or modify the original data on your storage media, instead saves the recovered data on the user-specified location.
6. Software is mainly designed to suite all categories of Mac OS X users with the ability to preview files before recovery.

Main Features of Remo Recover Photo (MAC)

• Software incorporates high end media recovery methods to systematically scan and recover media files from IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives, SD Cards, CF Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks, external Zip drives, FireWire and USB hard drives.
• Software supports professional RAW photograph recovery for almost all popular Digital SLR’s, for e.g. Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Minolta, Olympus and Kodak etc.
• Remo Recover Photo (MAC) supports Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above including Leopard.

Demo version is available

First you can download the Demo version of this Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software and discover what this trash recovery on Mac book can do. If you are pleased with the result previews, purchase it from within the demo and the full version will start to work on your deleted trash on Mac book.

Steps to recover deleted trash from Mac book

Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software provides easy to use interface that helps you to recover lost/deleted pictures in simple steps. Please follow the steps below to recover lost /deleted digital media files from your hard disk drive, SD Card, CF Card, XD Card, Memory Stick, external Zip drive, FireWire and USB hard drive.

Step 1: Run Remo Recover Photo (Mac) Software by double clicking icon from ‘Applications’ folder or from the location where the software has been installed. Program main window will be displayed as shown in the Figure (a).

Figure (a): Application Main Window

Step 2: Select the drive from the drive(s) list, and click on “Next” button to proceed or double click on the drive as shown in Figure (b).

Figure (b): Drive Selection

Step 3: As you click “Next” button, the program displays a window to select files from deleted trash to recover on Mac book as shown in Figure (c).

Figure (c): File types selection

Step 4: By default all the file types will be selected. Click on “Deselect all” button and select those picture file formats which you wish to recover click on “Recover” button.

The application of Image Recovery starts scanning your selected drive as shown in figure (d). Please wait till the process is completed.

Figure (d): Scanning progress

Step 5: As soon as the application completes the scanning process, the recovered data/files will be analyzed and displayed in a well organized data tree as shown in Figure (e).

Figure (e): Recovered data tree

Please Note: You may preview the file by double clicking on the same or just click on “View” button.

Step 6: You can now save the recovered trash deleted files on Mac OS in order to complete trash recovery process. Select the files you wish to save and click on save button. Specify a safe location to initiate saving process as shown in Figure (f).

Figure (f): Specify safe destination location for saving

Important Note:

1. In order to save your recovered data, you need to purchase and activate Remo Recover Photo (Mac). Saving option will not work in demo version.
2. To avoid re-scanning in Activated version, scan info could be saved by clicking on “Save Scan Info” button. The same can be used in activated software and saving process can be initiated.

Introduced in 2006, the MacBook replaced the iBook and PowerBooks. Despite of being the cheapest of any computer in the Mac line, MacBook uphold the quality and reliability of Apple. In 2008, this brand of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple Inc. has been the best-selling Macintosh in history. MacBook come in two types, MacBook and MacBook Pro. However, MacBook can also run Windows if you install Bootcamp. It comes with a bundle of software already installed, such as iPhoto, iMovie and a number of graphic arts programs.

After a data loss scenario, irrespective of the storage media or operating systems, data recovery is possible, if the data in question is not overwritten by new data. Deleted data from trash bin can be easily restored if you act instantly. If the image you are looking to recover have not got overwritten by any new data then, Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software will help you recover them all.

All the Remo Software are available as free evaluation. Download Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software and test run the application too see if it can find the deleted pictures from the MacBook. The software uses the deepest search methods and the most sophisticated recovery algorithms to give you the best possible chance of recovering your files. Demo version of all Remo software restricts file saving option and allow users to preview the recovered file using tree formed after scanning the drive. To recover files you need to buy the full version.

Simple steps to recover photos with Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software on Mac OS X are as follows:

Step 1: Run Remo Recover Photo (Mac) software, by double clicking on application icon from the “Applications” folder or the location where the software has been installed. Program main Window will be displayed as shown in the Figure (a).

Figure (a): Application main window

Step 2: Select the physical drive from the drive(s) list (List shows all the attached storage devices like hard drives, memory card, USB drives etc), and click on “Next” button or double click on the drive to proceed (see Figure a).

Step 3: As you click “Next” button, the program displays a Window to select file types that you wish to recover. By default all the file types will be selected. Click on “Deselect all” button and select those picture file formats which you wish to recover and click on “Recover” button as shown in Figure (b).

Figure (b): Select required photo file formats

Step 4: After the scanning process is completed, the recovered images will be analyzed and displayed in a well organized data tree. If you wish to retrieve and save the entire data tree, click on “Select all” button and further click on save button. As soon as you click on save button, a window to specify destination location is opened. Specify a safe destination location to save all your selected data in the recovered data tree (see Figure c).

Figure (c): Save recovered media files to safe location

Do not save the file(s) to the same location from which you are recovering the data as this may lead to permanent data loss.

Please Note: Remo Recover Photo (Mac) is equipped with preview option to give you a fair idea of recovery possibilities. To preview the pictures, select the image from the data tree and click on “View” button or just double click on the file.