How to Recover Lost Files on Your Mac OS X PC

The Mac OS X, especially the Mavericks, bring users a better working experience, but photos stored on Mac Mavericks often face lost data situations because of accidental deletions, incorrect formatting, system crashes, or any other unknown reasons. When facing lost data issues with Mac, it is important to remain calm and avoid causing more issues on the Mac. There are outstanding solutions for users to recover lost files from Mac OS X.

uFlysoft Mac Data Recovery is a fantastic program specifically designed for Mac OS X. This easy-to-use software not only allows users to recover lost, deleted, and formatted files, but also gives users the ability to restore files after emptying the trash bin.

Moreover, uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac supports Mac OS X PC as well as storage devices such as external hard drives, digital cameras, USB drives, memory cards, etc. Technical Mac skills are no longer needed with this tool, and it will do no harm to Mac operating systems or files.

Why Lost Files Can Be Recovered

After data loss happens like delete file mistakenly, wrongly format hard drive or storage device or empty trash bin, all of these will make users consider that the files are all gone forever. Actually it is not true. After losing files from Mac or storage device, the operating system only will delete the catalog but not the files themselves. So, though the files are inaccessible, they are still remain on the hard drive. At this moment, users still have the chance to recover the files. But there is one condition that users should pay attention: Don’t put any new files into the device where the files were lost from. This can protect files from data overwritten situation.

Steps for Recovering Mac Lost Data with uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac

Step 1: Install uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac on Your Mac OS

Install uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac on your Mac and run the software. Our software will process different types of scanning/recovering automatically in accordance with different situations specific to your computer. Users only need to move the mouse for a few clicks to complete the process. The whole operation is easy to handle so user don’t need to worry about any technical problems.

Step 2: Choose the Drive/Device to Scan

After installing the software, you will find that your drives or devices (like USB drive, memory card, external drive, etc.) which you connected with your Mac will be shown at the bottom of the interface. At this moment, choose the one you want to scan and simply click the button “Scan” to operate scanning. Our software will process the deep scan to search for the lost files.

Step 3: Preview and Recovery

After scanning is finished, users will find that many found files are listed on the left side of the screen. Choose one of them to preview (only for photo files) to judge if it is the one you want to recover. If yes, then click the button “Recovery” to recover the files.

Important Note: Our software will remind you to avoid saving the files in the same volume to protect the original data. This also can protect the safety of your Mac operating system and your files. Choose an external drive which has enough space for all of your important files that you want to save.

You can also visit this video tutorial to follow the easy steps to get back lost files on Mac.

Some Tips for Users

1. After data loss happen, stop doing any operating on your Mac or storage device. This can help you to avoid any new files occupy the space of the “deleted files”.

2. For more details about data recovery, users can visit this technical support article and learn more.