The Way You Can Follow to Recover Lost Files from Your Mac

Have ever deleted or lost some documents, videos, images, text or etc from your MacBook, SD card, USB, mobile and etc.? Then, several days later, you realized that some of these files are of great use. You may regret and got frustrated about the sloppy file deletion or wrong hard drive format. The same thing happens every day here and there. Worry is meaningless, so let’s see how you can prevent wrong deletion and solve data loss problem on your Mac.

Helpful Tips to Prevent Data Loss

1. Check files in Trash bin.

2. Every time before you delete files, please double check them to ensure these highlighted files are no longer useful for both yourself and your families. When you decide to empty the Mac trash, please carefully check whether there are some important or valuable files in trash. Before you empty recycle bin, you still have a chance to undelete these files.

3. Regularly backup useful data

Before you start to format a hard drive, delete a partition, reinstall Mac operating system and etc., please double check your hard drive and system disk to see whether there are important information storing on it. For data security, the most sensible way is backing up files before partition, format and system reinstallation.

Once in a while, you may emptied trash and formatted hard drive by accident without check or backup. In case like this, you will have no way but to draw support from some third-party data recovery applications to solve the problem “how to recover lost files Mac”, such as uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac.

Easy Steps to Recover Files on Mac

As I tried, the uFlysoft data recovery software for Mac can recover many files, such as doc, PPT, text, PDF, Excel, e-mail, video, audio, images and more file types from MacBook, external hard drives, mobiles, CD/DVD, memory device, camera, IOS devices and many more. It requires 4 steps to recover any lost or formatted files on Mac by using it:

1. Select media type where you lost files.

2. Select a partition or device to recover data from. Then, choose the “Scan” option to start the deeply scan.

3. Scan files from selected hard drive or device.

4. Preview and restore the selected file. (Only photo files can be previewed.)

What’s next? Just remember to build a backup for the recovered data so that you will not lose them again. You can come and check our support articles on our site.