Causes and Recovery Solutions for deleted Mac Files

Accidental file deletion and loss of valuable data thereof has been always one of the biggest data loss problems for any computer user. There are many instances, when either due to your own mistakes or any system related problem, important files get deleted. Even, sometimes you intentionally delete folders without noticing that there are some important files inside and only realize the problem later, when the folders have already been deleted. But, there are  many Mac File Recovery software available in the market, using which you can easily recover all your deleted files.

Apart from user mistakes, there are many other reasons behind the deletion or loss of files from the Mac. As a whole, some of the mostly encountered incidents are listed as below:

• Virus or malware infection causing file loss
• Accidental or intentional formatting of volume/drive
• Operating system malfunction casing deletion of files or formatting of volumes
• Forceful formatting due to severe file system corruptions
• Deletion of files following any newly installed software or hardware contradiction etc.

Apart from this, many Mac users encounter problems while performing operations through 'Finder'. Sometimes, when deleting large sized files through the Finder, the file gets completely deleted from the system, without going  to the 'Trash'.

Note: 'Finder' is the default file manager in Mac with which you can perform various operations, including creation of files, deletion and many others.

In the above situation, the complete deletion of files, without going into the trash is because of the fact that either the Finder is corrupt or you have set the option- “not to warn before deletion”.

Whatever be the reason behind the deletion of the file, once the file is deleted, it is gone and analysis of the reason will not bring the file back. But, the most interesting fact about file deletion is that when a file is deleted from the system, the OS removes all the entries of the file from the memory, but the content of the file remains in the drive intact.

Thus, if those lost entries of files can be retrieved, the files can be recovered, without much problem. The Mac data recovery softwares like Stellar Phoenix Mac Data recovery,  are available in the market. The software has been designed with many innovative algorithms, which read the lost entries of files and recover all the deleted or formatted files back. The utility is completely safe in its file recovery process and does not make any change in the format of the recovered files. Above all, the user interfaces of the software is quite interactive and thus the software is immensely easy-to-use.

How to Recover Data from Drive that Disappeared from Mac - 1

Despite of hundred and hundreds of the features, Mac is known for its unpredictability. Hard drive corruption and volume corruption is very common  in Mac. Though all these issues can be resolved easily (To know how visit: What if Drive disappears From your Mac) but sometimes it these issues are very much complicated that could not be resolved easily.  This post is for those Mac in which drive disappears accidentally and while trying to mount it throws error “Mount Failed”.  The most common fear in this case will be about data so it is better retrive data first. I was not very sure whether data recovery is possible in this case because I was thinking it is not possible to retrieve data until and unless it is known from which volume data is to be retrieved! But I found Mac data recovery software by Stellar promising that it can recover data at any cost. So I decided to give it a try at least once! In the welcome screen I found last option something related to my situation, it saying:

“This method helps you to scan hard drive and other mass storage devices for lost/deleted volumes. It can scan each and every sector of drive to search lost/deleted volume. It can also search volume that fails to mount.”

Now my curiosity was at peak, without loosing a second I clicked on it and the screen in front of
me is asking to select the drive which I 
want to scan it presented the list of
drives in front of me. As I was using
 hard drive “Hitachi HTSS 45032B9SA02”
of 300 GB which software is showing to me.

The screen shot of the screen at which I was landed by the software is soon after clicking “continue” is:

It started scanning sector by sector for the lost drives!  Also describing me what exactly it is doing by presenting sector number it is reading and coloring the part in green where it found any lost, deleted or unmounted volume.  Not only this it also displaying number of drives it found in scanning so far!

It is bit time taking process because software is doing sector by sector scanning. But once it completed it will list all the drives found:

The list of the drive will be shown with the default  name “Lost Volume1”, “Lost Volume2”...
Additionally, it will show the size and file type of the drive.
Not only this screen is also educating me about the scan methods to be used for the doing further scanning for data in these volumes listed above. These methods are:

• Quick Recovery
• Deleted File Recovery
• Advanced Recovery

I was really happy at this point when the software presented the list of volumes in front of me. At this point I am very much assured to get my data back. But for now I have to go for a special piece of family work and so I saved scan for now using “save scan” option present on the screen. I will work on it after finishing my task and then update you...

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Cent Percent Data Recovery from Mac System

I was working hard at my dream project and just about to finish. I still remembered that horrible night it was January 29, 2011. I was working at my Mac system and somehow system crashed down and after remounting the system I got 440 volt electric shock!! Ahh, I found the project data corrupted. I quickly hit time machine utility but all vain. I was like lost everything in just one go and it was so obvious that I lost my mind!!

One of my friend gave me a Mac data recovery software saying just try it can help you for sure. I have no other option than using it. I started I found following options in the interface:

• Quick File Recovery
• Deleted File Recovery
• Formatted Media & Lost File Recovery
• Search Lost/Deleted Volume

With the name of Jesus, I clicked and it started scanning. I was sitting just near to it because I was really afraid of and scanning process is running its own speed. Scanning process marker started showing that 80% scanning has been completed I was so much excited and right at the moment my wife with three year kid called me from airport as they were returning from somewhere I have to pick them. But how can I leave my project? I called up that friend of mine what he told made me feel relax! He said just stop the scanning there and you can resume the scanning process from that point after at any time. I automatically started thanking the mac data recovery guys and my friend.

After finishing my family work I again rushed to my Mac system and after short while I show a message flashing in the screen “Scan Completed”. My excitement was at its top I just click one of the file listed, waooo I can also see the preview of the it. I quickly select the file that related to my crucial project and “started recovery”. And finally what I saw made me happiest man on the earth. I gave tons of thanks to that friend of mine and “Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery” yes this is the name of product placed just next to me. It actually saved my life!!

Mac Data Recovery Software: Data Recovery After Time Machine Failure

Computer systems made our work much simpler but some times it become most annoying when one anyhow lost most precious data knowingly or unknowingly. Data loss is really an horrible situation that anyone can face at any point of time. It may happen with safest & most secure computer system irrespective to configuration of the system. Single glimpse of data loss can make you feel uneasy!!

One and only one solution for such horrible data Tsunami is none other than BACKUP. Keeping everything in mind Mac systems started providing time machine utility with Mac OS X 10.5 leopard & above. This solution was really like “Waoo” for everyone who is crazy about data.

It is fine with the time machine utility to store backup in external hard drive but that external hard drive must be formatted in journaling mode using HFS+ file system. It may encounter a serious issue if that hard drive using MBR (Master Boot Record) partition type because the external Mac OS X hard drive using Master Boot Record partition types do not accept over 10 GB data. So no one can use such drive for backup of data.

Some more cases of time machine failure:

Sometime time machine fails to backup your valuable data (unable to complete the backup process) due to various reasons:

• Backup volume unavailability.
• Time machine configuration problem
• Unable to load the volume whose back up has been needed.
• The volume whose backup has to be taken is not present
• Any unwanted Error occurred during process of copying files for backup.
• The airport extreme using for backup is not compatible to time machine.

Answer for data Tsunami- Mac Data Recovery software

Its work start from where time machine stop working. Just Thank GOD!! There is at least something one can rely upon for data recovery. Now stop being crazy about data because Mac data recovery software is here to fight for any such Data Tsunami. The most important part is that one is not supposed to be technical expert for using Mac data recovery software. Only one thing which expert always advices as soon as you lost your data or file just stop using that OS because any further use of the OS may overwrite the data.

Stellar Data Recovery offers a range of the best Mac tools not only for data recovery purpose but also they can optimise your system performance. To know more about Mac Data Recovery software & other Mac tools or to order anyone of them online visit us on the web at Mac-tools.net!