What We Should Have in Mind When Undelete Mac Data
"I accidentally deleted a folder from my iMac and clicked Empty Trash habitually. After this, I realized that some important files were in that folder. Is it possible to undelete Mac files?"
Questions similar to the above problem have always been seen in Ask&Answer forums. The problems happened because clicking the 'Empty Trash' is unconscious pattern of behavior among some Mac users.
It is possible to undelete Mac files.
Some users think that when data is deleted from the hard drive, it is deleted forever. There is no mean to undelete files from Mac OS X hard drive. In fact, it is a wrong perception that you cannot undelete Mac or the files are deleted permanently once you emptied trash bin as you could neither find it in the trash, nor under temporary folders. Actually the files are still very much present on your hard disk. Mac OS X creates index of the file on hard drive in file system. Every data has entry in the file system index, which includes name, location, size and type. When it is accessed from the hard drive, the index is accessed by the operating system. Operating system reads the storage location of the file to extract the file. When a file is deleted, only the index entry is deleted and the disk space occupied by the deleted data is marked as free and re-useable space, so it is possible to undelete Mac until the file is overwritten by other files.
2 main ways to undelete Mac
There are two main ways to undelete Mac files.
1. Utilize local backup program in your Mac.
Mac machines purchased after November 2007 are installed with the Leopard operating system. One of the most important utilities of the Leopard is Time Machine. This complete backup tool can back up almost anything and everything on a Mac every hour with its unique features. Once you deleted or lost your critical files, just enter your Time Machine browser, and you can undelete Mac files from Time Machine backup. Besides Time Machine, there are other programs on Mac such as Backup which allows you to undeleted Mac files. In Backup, you simply select a plan for backup, and find the files you want to undelete.
2. The third-part “undelete Mac data” software.
If Time Machine and other backup programs on your Mac cannot help you undelete Mac files, you can use third party Mac data recovery software to undelete Mac files.
There are various Mac data recovery programs (both free software and paid versions) on the current market. If these Mac files are really important for you, you should use professional one. The uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac can undelete Mac files deleted accidentally or intentionally, even deleted by emptying Trash. It can undelete documents, archives, images, videos, songs from Mac machine, USB drive, digital camera, iPod, cell phone, MP3 or MP4 player and other storage media.
What does Mac data recovery software does that Mac OS cannot?
1. Recover your lost, deleted or inaccessible files / folders, including text documents, pictures, music, videos, multimedia files, emails, database files, etc.
2. Recover lost or deleted data files from any internal/external hard drives, USB flash drives, Memory Cards, digital camera, iPod or flash card, MP3/MP4 player, mobile phone.
3. Recover memorable videos, photographs, priceless song collections, movies, your own music compositions etc. from your inaccessible iPod, Canon Cameras, USB, iPad, iPhone, etc.
4. You can create a Mountable Image of the entire hard drive or any selected region, so that in any instance of data loss, you can restore all your data within no time.
5. Simply recover lost data with few clicks. It is safe enough to perform data recovery without writing to your original data.
With this powerful Mac data recovery software, all you need to do is to follow the easy-to-sue steps and you will find you are succeed in recovering Mac files with ease.
