Hard Disk Recovery

Question: I stored a lot of precious photos on my Mac hard disk. Then, my brother played some games on my computer. However, he moved my photos to Trash and emptied it by mistake. And, unfortunately, I didn’t backup all needed files with Time Machine. In this case, what should I do? Is it possible to recover lost photos on Mac without Time Machine? Note: since data recovery companies cannot keep data safe, I don’t want to resort to them. Who can help me?

Answer: In general, Mac users can turn to a piece of professional Mac data recovery software equipped with excellent performance and high security to recover lost photos.

Excellent Mac Data Recovery Software

With the development of software technology, lots of data recovery programs are made available in the market which can help to recover lost data on Mac. MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, a piece of excellent Mac data recovery software developed by famous software development company, can help to easily and quickly recover lost data. This tool not only provides several different data recovery modules to cope with data loss situations but also can keep data safe all time even in case of sudden power outages. Furthermore, it provides wizard-based operation as well as simple interface. Next, let’s see the detailed steps to recover data on Mac hard disk.

How to Recover Photos on Mac

Before recovering lost data, we need to launch MiniTool Mac Data Recovery to get its main window as follows.

Four different data recovery modules are listed in the main window. At this time, we can select a suitable recovery module according to actual needs to recover lost data. Here, it is recommended to choose “Digital Media Recovery” to recover lost photos since this feature is specially designed to recover deleted or lost photos, music and videos from various digital media storage devices (such as flash drive, mp3 player, digital camera, hard drive, iPod) and all types of flash cards (like Compact Flash, IBM Microdrives, SmartMedia, Multi Media, Secure Digital, SONY Memory Stick and others).

In this window, we can select the target partition containing lost data and then click “Full Scan” button. After scanning, we will receive the following window.

At this time, we can select all needed photos and click “Save” button to store them on a safe place.

Note: in this window, we can click “Preview” button to preview files before saving. (as shown below)

See! With MiniTool Mac Data Recovery, we can easily and quickly recover lost photos on Mac without affecting the original data. If you need to recover lost Mac data, you can also try using this tool. And, this excellent Mac data recovery software not only can help to recover data from Mac hard disk, but also supports memory card recovery, USB drive data recovery, etc.