In earlier days, the entire photography process included, taking pictures on a camera with a photosensitive film, and then developing the film, to get the image in a printed format. Nowadays, it just takes the click of a button, on a digital camera, to take photos, and within seconds you can preview, edit and transfer these photos.

It is when we lose, that we realize the importance of something. This comes true in case of photos, because, as long as the photos are present on our system, we really do not care much about their existence, but the moment we lose these photos, we get desperate, to get back the photos.

Loss of photos, can take place due to a number of reasons including virus attacks, improper usage of the flash memory card, system crash etc. In case of digital photo recovery for Mac machines, it is suggested, that you go for the best photo recovery software, which assures recovery of all lost photos.

REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition software, is best suited for digital photo recovery Mac machines. REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition software, is an easy-to-use photo recovery software, that not only lets you recover lost photos, but also lets you recover audio and video files of various well known formats. The software also lets you preview the recovered data, and hence, you can be sure of the files that you want to recover.

Precautions:

There are some precautions, which you need to take, before you start using the software.

• Avoid using the drive from which you want to recover the data. Using the drive, might result in permanent erasure of data.
• Avoid saving the recovered data onto the drive from which you are recovering the data, as this might result in overwriting of the data.

The supported file types, are listed in the table below,

Photos	BMP, PNG, TIF, TIFF, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PSD
RAW Photos	Canon	CRW, CR2
	Nikon	NEF
	Sony	ARW, SR2
	Olympus	ORF
	Minolta	MRW
	Kodak	KDC, K25, DCR
	Fuji	RAF
	DNG	DNG
	Pentax	PEF
	Sigma	X3F
	Leica	RAW
Videos	AVI, MP4, MOV, MPEG, MPG, M4V, 3G2, 3GP, RM
Music	MP3, MP4, WAV, MIDI, M4B, M4A, AIFF, AIF, AIFC, RA, AMR

Supported file types

Compatibility

Remo Recover (Mac) Media Edition software, is compatible with;

Operating System	Mac OS X 10.4.11, Mac OS X v 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X v 10.6 Snow Leopard
RAM	512 MB (Recommended, 1 GB RAM)
Free disk space	50 MB (for installation)

You must log in as System Administrator or as a super user like Root, to install and use the software. Supports 32bit Apple Mac OS X.

Important: It is suggested that you install the software on another PC, before proceeding with the subsequent steps of photo recovery. After installing the software on another PC, connect the hard drive as a slave drive to that PC. Once you are done with that, you can proceed with the data recovery, using the simple steps given in the subsequent pages.

Simple Photo Recovery steps

Step 1: Launch REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition software, by selecting it from the application folder. The main window pops up as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Main window

Step 2: The local and the external drives that are detected, are displayed as shown in the figure. Select the hard drive that you connected as slave, and click the Next button to proceed to the next step, as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Selecting the drive

Step 3: On clicking the Next button, a new window pops up, as shown Figure c. The various types of photo files, audio files, and video files are displayed, as shown in the figure below. You can select specifically, the file types you wish to recover, or select all the file types, if you wish to recover all the media files, based on your requirement.

Note: By default, all the photo, audio and video files are selected for recovery. You can disable this feature, by clicking the Deselect all button.

Figure c: Selecting file types

Step 4: After selecting the file types, click the Recover button, to start the recovery process. A new window displays, the progress made in the recovery process, and also lists the number of files that have been found, as shown in Figure d.

You can use the Show selected file types option, to display the file types you selected in the previous step.

Figure d: Scanning in Progress

Step 5: Once the scanning process is completed, the recovered media files are grouped together and listed in their respective folders as shown in Figure e. Clicking any of the folder displays, the recovered files of the respective file type, under that folder, as shown in the figure.

Figure e: Recovered files and folders

Step 6: Once the files are recovered, you can select a particular file, and click on the View button, to preview the image, as shown in Figure f.

Figure f: Preview window

Step 7: The last step is to save all the recovered media files to a destination drive. You can select specific files for saving, or, click on the Select All button, to select all the files that have been recovered.

Click the Save button, and select the destination drive, onto which you want the files to be saved. You can also use the Save scan info button to save information about a particular scan task.

Figure g: Save the files

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