A Relaxing Way to Recover Deleted CR2 Photo for Mac

Both amateur and professional photographers using Canon digital cameras for both vocation and avocation reasons might face overwhelming misery when their most valuable CR2 photos are lost from their MacBook. Most people go directly to hysteria and panic after losing treasured photographs and unforgettable video clips. Anyone who has ever had old time snapshots wither away from age knows this particular dilemma well.

Most people are unaware that the loss of these image files is only temporary and that a remedy is available to overcome such a disheartening circumstances. There is available Mac CR2 Photo recovery tool as a solution to recover deleted CR2 photos for Mac. However, in order to understand digital media file recovery one should understand the causes of data loss and take steps to increase the chances of recovering deleted CR2 photos for Mac.

When you delete CR2 photos from your MacBook, the CR2 photo itself isn't deleted, just the index entry that says where the data for those files is located. The space containing the deleted photos is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead. So it is very, very important to not take any more pictures to the MacBook from which you want to get back deleted CR2 photos for mac. OK, now you can read the following guide to recover deleted CR2 photos on Mac.

Mac CR2 Photo recovery tool recovers lost and deleted digital photos, music, and video files on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and above. It supports both Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh and is an Apple Universal application supporting recovery from IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives, SD Cards, CF Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks, external Zip drives, FireWire and USB hard drives.

After the installation, lauch Mac CR2 Photo recovery tool. The main panel shows like this:

The local and the external drives that are detected with Mac CR2 Photo recovery tool. Select the hard drive that you connected as slave, and click the Next button to proceed to the next step.

On clicking the Next button, a new window pops up. 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.

After selecting the file types, click the Recover button, to start to recover digital CR2 photos for Mac. A new window displays, the progress made in the recovery process, and also lists the number of files that have been found. You can use the Show selected file types option, to display the file types you selected in the previous step.

Once the scanning process is completed, the recovered media files are grouped together and listed in their respective folders. Clicking any of the folder displays, the recovered files of the respective file type, under that folder,

Once the files are recovered, you can select a particular file, and click on the View button, to preview the image.

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.

Raw camera image created by Canon digital cameras; stores uncompressed image data exactly how it was captured by the CCD; can be adjusted for white balance and exposure using several image-editing software programs, including the software bundled with Canon digital camera purchases.

CR2 files are saved in a format based on the TIFF specification; some earlier versions of Canon digital cameras also use the .CRW format, which is based on the Camera Image File Format (CIFF).

Accidental deleting

• "Command + Del" without backup
• "Delete All" when deleting not-so-good photos
• Delete pictures instead of saving by accidentally pressing wrong button
• Emptying trash without backup

• "Media/Drive is not formatted would you like to format now?"
• Mac OS X prompts for disk initialization when digital camera memory card is just connected.

Virus infection/attack

Unexpected power off

Other reasons

• Factory setting of device
• Losing photos during transferring photos from storage device to PC/laptop
• Pulling out card while the camera is on
• Turning off the camera during a write process