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File undelete on Mac OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7

"I recently deleted a video file by mistake, and emptied it from the recycle bin. I tried downloading several file undelete programs to get them back." This is the general request of no matter Windows or Mac users.

However, common program provides free scan for your volume and requires registration before it will recover any files. What's more, people may also concern that the file undelete software would even be usable and whether this price is reasonable or not.

This article is going to tell you what should you do when you have the problem above.

Delete files on Mac OS

A deleted file is essentially an area on disk designated as free and ready to accept data (such as contents of some other file). Luckily, unless the area has already been overwritten, it still holds the contents of the deleted file. Due to this fact it is possible to undelete files.

Note: Stop any activity on the disk you are going to undelete files from! Remember that writing to that disk can damage the contents of the deleted files. Examples of disastrous activity include: copying files to the disk, installing programs there or running programs that use the disk as their swap media.

If you accidentally delete something you need, if at all possible stop using the affected disk immediately.

You can delete a file by Apple's Disk Utility to Erase a drive. By default Disk Utility does a Quick Erase, which just deletes the disk directory and replaces it with a new empty copy. The underlying file structure on the volume is not changed, and any existing data remains in place until it gets overwritten.

Partitioning a disk removes all existing volumes on a device, then creates new ones with new disk directories. However like a Quick Erase, Partitioning doesn't actually remove underlying data, it just marks the space as available. File recovery is usually possible on re-partitioned drives, though this will require a more thorough scan than with a standard erase.

A Secure Erase – typically a multi-pass process – writes new data to the disk and is deliberately destructive to old data. The utilities described here will not work if a Secure Erase is performed on your disk, recovery will require a forensic data recovery service.

Mac File undelete software

EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard is an application that allows you to recover deleted files. It recovers files directly from hard drive, and it will work even if you empty Trash Bin.

Mac File Undelete

It has following recovery models:

Photo Recovery: Recover photos, videos, music and other multimedia files from both Mac hard drive and other portable storage devices (Support HFS+/FAT/NTFS/NTFS5 file system).
Quick Recovery: Recover recent deleted files with original name and path, supporting HFS, HFS+ and FAT file system.
Deep Recovery: Use RAW searching technology that scans your files sector by sector to make sure that all the possible files can be retrieved. It is highly recommended that you try this when other recovery module doesn't work.
Lost Partition Recovery: Recover partitions which have been lost, overwritten or damaged by a virus, as well as the data on them.