Photos may be lost from MacBook Air due to various reasons; accidental deletion is one of major reason for losing photos. While viewing your memorable photos on MacBook Air, you may accidentally delete some of the photos using "command + delete" key combination. This results in deleted photos bypassing the Mac trash, so become necessary to use our photo recovery software which can recover deleted photos from Mac trash and also the ones which bypass the trash. Like the hard drive, the software has the ability to perform Mac photo recovery for external drive too. It can restore photos that get deleted after formatting hard drive or external hard drive accidentally or intentionally to remove the corruption.

Sometimes, you may connect a memory card to MacBook Air for the purpose of transferring photos. Due to virus intrusion or improper removal from the computer, memory card may become inaccessible and you may not be able to view the photos from it. In such a scenario, Mac photo recovery software proves very helpful to recover pictures from corrupt memory card. The software makes use of smart scan method that is based on unique file signatures of photos and guarantees complete Mac photo recovery from formatted USB drive, FireWire drive along with different types of memory cards such as CF card, SD card, XD card, MMC and memory sticks. Apart from recovering popular photo formats such as JPEG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, etc, it performs Mac photo recovery from digital camera & DSLR cameras and recovers raw photo formats like CR2, CRW, ARW, SR2, X3F, NEF, RAF, etc.

This tool can also be used as Mac photo recovery software for iPod because it can restore deleted and inaccessible photos from iPod when it is connected to MacBook Air for transferring photos and other media files between iPod and the computer. The software is compatible with Mac OS X like Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, etc. It you want to try this award-winning software to recover photos from your MacBook Air, follow the simple steps explained below:

Step I: Launch the software and select "Recover Photos" from the main software interface, as shown in Fig I.

Fig I : Recover Photos

Step II: Select any of the recovery option provided on the next screen, as shown in Fig II.

Fig II : Recover Deleted/Lost Photos

Step III: From the list of detected volumes, as shown in Fig III, select a volume on your MacBook Air from which you want to recover photos and click "Next".

Fig III : Select Mac volume on MacBook Air

Step IV: Once the scanning is completed, software displays list of recovered photos, as shown in Fig IV. Use "Preview" to preview recovered photo prior to its restoration on a healthy Mac volume.

Fig IV : View List of Recovered Photos

Nikon cameras uses memory card to store large amount of photos and videos, as it has lesser internal storage space. These memory cards can be used widely in number of multimedia devices; hence they are often prone to corruption which can cause loss of photos when connected in Nikon cameras. However, you can recover pictures from corrupt memory card, flash card, iPods, etc by using this photo recovery software. The other scenarios for loss of Nikon photos in which this recovery software can be used are:

• Unintentional deletion: When you accidentally deletes NEF files using "Delete all" option on Nikon camera or using "Command+Delete" key combination when connected to Mac computer.
• Virus infection: As memory card used in Nikon camera is often prone to virus attack, it may damage NEF files present on the camera.
• Accidental format: While using memory card of camera on Mac computer, if you accidentally format it; this will result in deletion of entire photos and videos from the memory card.
• Transfer of photos: While transferring photos between Mac computer and Nikon camera, if power failure occurs then it may leads to loss of photos or they may become inaccessible.
• Improper unplug: If you unplug your Nikon camera abruptly from the Mac computer, it will causes the loss of photos and video files.

So, it is always recommended to use photo recovery software to perform Mac lost photo recovery for Nikon NEF files. Below are the steps to use this recovery tool:

Step i: Launch the software to view the main screen which displays the list of detected physical volumes, as shown in Fig i.

Fig i: Main Screen

Step ii: Select the appropriate volume for your Nikon camera and click "Next", as shown in Fig ii.

Fig ii: Select Nikon Camera

Step iii: From the displayed list, select the file types to recover and click "Recover" to initialize the scanning process, as shown in Fig iii.

Fig iii: Select File Types

Step iv: Upon the accomplishment of scanning process, software displays the list of recovered data, as shown in Fig iv.

Fig iv: Recovered Files List

Step v: You can preview the recovered photo using "View" button, as shown in Fig v, and if satisfied with the results, purchase the full version to save recovered data using "Save" option.

Fig v: Save Recovered Files

This recovery tool, which supports Mac photo recovery for external drive, hard drive and Firewire drives, works on HFS+, HFSX, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems used on Mac OS X versions like Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, etc. Mac photo recovery from formatted USB drive is also possible by using this software. The data loss scenarios in which this photo recovery tool is necessary are:

• Accidental deletion of photos using “Delete all” option provided on digital cameras, or using command + delete option when connected to Mac computers.
• Flash card used in digital cameras gets corrupted due to improper unplugging from the computer or due to virus attack, this makes the files present on it inaccessible
• Photos lost due to usage of third-party applications such as Anti-virus software or any system utility software.
• If PC is shut down improperly when digital camera is connected to it, files stored on it may be lost.
• Valuable photos and videos may be lost when you accidentally format the flash card used in your digital camera, or when you are forced to format it due to some sort of corruption errors.

Follow the steps mentioned below to perform Mac photo recovery from digital cameras:

Step 1: Install and launch the software to see the welcome window, as shown in Fig. 1. It displays the list of detected volumes in Mac computer.

Fig 1: Welcome window

Step 2: Select the appropriate logical volume for your digital camera or flash card used in it, and click on “Next” as displayed in Fig. 2

Fig 2: Select volume

Step 3: In the next window, select the photo and video file formats that need to be recovered, and click on “Recover” as shown in Fig. 3. Now the application starts scanning the volume.

Fig 3: Select File Formats

Step 4: After the completion of file scanning, list of recovered data is displayed, as shown in Fig. 4

Fig 4: List of Recovered Data

Step 5: Using “View” option, you can preview the recovered photos. If satisfied with the results, save the data by clicking “Save” button, as shown in Fig. 5

Fig 5: Save Recovered Data

Despite so many advanced features, it is not immune to corruption. It can get corrupted in many instances and lead to important data loss. The cards used in these cameras can be connected to computer using Card reader. When you try to unplug the card abruptly from the card reader during the data transfer process, it can lead to memory card corruption thus making photos and videos inaccessible. However, you can perform Canon photo recovery on Mac using the best of Mac recovery tools available. Some of the other reasons for data loss from Canon cameras:

Virus attack: Flash cards used in cameras can be connected to almost all the multimedia devices and also to the computer. Hence the chances of virus attack on these cards are more.

Accidental deletion: Sometimes, user accidentally deletes some or all the files using the delete option provided on cameras, or when card is connected to the computer. In such a case, you should use recovery software to recover deleted photos.

Corruption of flash card: During the data reading process or file transfer process, if the power shuts down, it may lead to corruption of flash card making the photos corrupt. To overcome this, corrupted image file recovery software can be used.

Formatting the flash card: In some instances of Canon camera flash card corruption, photos and videos become inaccessible and you have to format the memory card for further use. Due to this, data will be lost from the card. To perform the Mac lost photo recovery, you can try a good restore utility for Mac OS.

To overcome the data loss incurred due to many unexpected reasons, you must use efficient recovery software to perform formatted SD card recovery on Mac. This software supports SD and XD cards, MMC cards, CF cards, etc and can recover digital raw photo formats such as CR2 (for Canon), NEF (for Nikon), SR2 &ARW (for Sony), etc. This software can also be recommended for Mac photo recovery for external drive.

Steps to recover photos from Canon cameras:

Step 1: Download and install the software on your Mac system and launch it using the shortcut icon or from the application folder, as shown in Fig. 1

Fig. 1

Step 2: Select your Canon drive from list displayed, as shown in Fig. 2, and click "Next".

Fig. 2

Step 3: The application displays a new window to select photos and videos file formats, as shown in Fig. 3, and click "Recover". Now the software starts scanning the drive.

Fig. 3

Step 4: Once the scanning process is accomplished, the recovered data will be displayed, as shown in Fig. 4

Fig. 4

Step 5: The recovered data can be previewed using "View" button or can be saved to a safe location by clicking "Save" option, as shown in Fig. 5

Fig. 5

You can store various types of media files to your iPod that includes audio books, music, photos, movie files, and in addition text files. Presume we have photos on your own computer that you would like to view on your iPod consequently we can copy it to iPod by applying your iPod like a hard drive. Each so very often typically, it will result that the particular data stored on iPod might get delete or lost because of a number of devastating circumstances. A few of the significant data loss instances those could certainly cause deletion of files from iPod are corruption of iPod firmware, errors encountered while connecting the particular iPod, unintentionally restoring the iPod, frozen iPod, improper synchronization of the iPod with iTunes application, and even unexpectedly ejecting the iPod when media file transmission process is actually in progress.

In case if you face such disastrous situations, no need to worry because you can recover deleted photos from iPod by making use of Mac lost photo recovery software. Mac Photo Recovery offers you a proficient photo recovery tool called Mac photo recovery for iPod. This photo recovery tool can be applied for recovering deleted or lost photos from various iPod models like iPod Shuffle, iPod Mini, iPod Nano, and iPod Classic. You can also make use of this tool to recover pictures from corrupted memory card as well to perform Mac photo recovery from formatted USB drive.

With the purpose of recovering deleted or lost photos from iPod, you need to follow the steps given below.

Step 1: Download and install the demo version of Mac Photo Recovery software. After running the software, the main window will appear as shown in Fig (A).

Fig A : Main Window

Step 2: Choose the volume or storage device from which you need to recover deleted or lost photos as shown in Fig (B). Then click on “Next”.

Fig B : Select Mac Volume

Step 3: After clicking on “Next”, you will get a new Window as shown in Fig (C). Choose the file types and click on “Recover” button. Then the software starts scanning.

Fig C : Select File Type

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

Fig D : View Recovered Pictures

Imagine a situation where you have lost all your memorable photos stored in external hard drive, due to some unwanted reasons. It will be very painful for anyone to lose valuable photos. Some of the reasons which cause loss of photos are:

• Accidental deletion of photos from external hard drives (using command+delete option), USB drives, iPhoto library (using “Delete original” option), memory cards, camcorders, USB flash drives.
• Accidentally formatting the external drive may lead to loss of photos.
• While transferring photos from one drive to another, if the power failure occurs, it may causes loss of data.
• Corruption of external hard drive due to virus attack or due to improper removal of the drive.
• Using same memory card in various digital cameras may result in data loss
• Unplugging external hard drive, memory card abruptly while copying process is going on, may lead to data loss.

To perform Mac lost photo recovery, an effective recovery tool i.e. Mac Photo Recovery is required. This recovery utility has an in-built algorithm for the faster and deeper scanning of media files like popular photos, music, video files and also RAW photos generated by professional cameras like Canon (CR2), Nikon (NEF), Sony (ARW, SR2), Sigma (X3F), etc. This software can be used for the purpose of Mac photo recovery for external dive such as SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc and also works on memory cards, camcorders, flash drives such as SD, XD, MMC, etc.

Mac Recovery software can also be used for Mac photo recovery from formatted USB drive. It is capable of recovering music files of formats like MP3, WAV, MIDI, etc and video file formats like AVI, MOV, MPG, MP4, etc. It is compatible with the latest versions of Mac OS X including Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. After recovery, the software preserves the original file name and sorts the recovered data on the basis of file name, size and other attributes. This recovery tool works on Mac file systems such as HFS+ and HFSX.

Steps on how to recover photos from Mac external drive:

Step 1: Download the software and install on your PC to recover pictures from corrupt memory card. Launch the software by double clicking the shortcut icon or from the application folder. The main screen will appear as shown in Fig. A

Fig A : Main Window

Step 2: Select “Recover Photos” option from the main screen, next screen will appear as highlighted in the Fig. B.  Now select either “Recover Deleted Photos” or “Recover Lost Photos” depending upon your requirements.

Fig B : Select Recover Deleted Photos

Step 3: After selecting any one of the option from previous screen, a new screen, for selecting a disk/volume, will appear as shown in Fig. C

Fig C : Select Mac External Drive

Step 4: The recovered data list is displayed in either “File type view” or “Data view” as shown in Fig. D

Fig D : View Recovered Photos

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.

Mac Recovery 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 Mac Photo Recovery 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. Mac Photo Recovery 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 Mac Photo Recovery. 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.

Mac Photo Recovery is an advanced picture 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 Mac photo Recovery 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 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?

Mac Photo Recovery 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 Photo Recovery software by double clicking the icon from “Applications” folder then the program main window appears as shown in the Figure 1

Figure 1: Mac Photo Recovery 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