Photo Recovery Mac
REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition software, is the best recovery software you can bank on for photo recovery from a Mac machine. Although, you need to be quick, and careful with your initial moves, the major part of the photo recovery process is handled by the software, with the user having a very minor role to play in the data recovery process.
The easy-to-use interface demands absolutely no technical knowledge from its user, and the on-screen guide, makes photo recovery process a simple task. The advanced file search method, used by the REMO Recover (Mac) Media edition software, exceeds various competitive products.
The deletion of a file, deletes only the pointers to the specific file, and not the actual data in the file. Hence, the deleted/lost file can be recovered, provided, no new data is written onto the disk space, occupied by the deleted/lost file. The user does not have to worry about corruption or loss of partitions, due to use of the software, since the software is a Read-only software.
Can we recover photos of various formats using REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition software?
REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition software supports recovery of photo files in all well known formats. In addition to this, the software supports recovery of audio and video files of various formats.
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 | |
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 Mac 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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