Does anyone know How to Recover Deleted ORF Photo for Mac

While using Olympus digital camera you may have to face ORF photo loss on mac situation. In Olympus digital camera ORF image data corruption usually occurs when the software application or the operating system crashes while the .ORF data file is open in memory. In most of the cases the headers or the parts of the data file are not saved to disk that may cause data corruption or the application to fail.

The ORF file contains pure data that can easily be corrupted by virus attack. Accidental deletion, physical damage of storage media, power interruption by computer, hard drive crashes and file system corruption may be others reasons for ORF data corruption. After corruption your ORF files make inaccessible. In order to get back lost ORF photo for mac you need to restore lost files from backup and for this you should have ORF file Recovery Software that can recover your desired images after corruption. In this situation Mac ORF Photo recovery tool will be the best option.

Mac ORF Photo recovery tool can be not cheap because technicians may need to disassemble your hard drive to fix the problem. Hard drive data recovery is usually done in a 'clean room' as hard drives are sealed to avoid errors caused by dust or other particles. Also hard drives are finely tuned machinery and it takes specialist equipment to read the platters from a physically damaged drive. So you can use Mac ORF Photo recovery tool to recover deleted ORF photo for Mac.

Hard Disk and Memory Cards do not immediately re-use space from deleted ORF photos on mac and leave it there for a while after the ORF file has been deleted; therefore you can recover deleted ORF photos for Mac. A Photo that has been deleted a while ago still has a good chance of being recovered, but the chances of an absolute undelete decrease the longer you leave it, because it is only a matter of time before that space is re-used and overwritten. So the Key to recovering your deleted ORF photos for Mac is to act immediately and you will be almost guaranteed to have your ORF photos back.

Mac ORF 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.

Here are a few precautions you need to follow which are essential if you want to recover deleted ORF photos on mac.

1. Remove ORF Files on the Hard Disk and put then in a safe place so that you won't accidentally overwrite your deleted ORF Files.

2. Don't save any files to Hard Disk

If you do save new images to the Hard Disk, then chances are the deleted files will be overwritten by the new images rendering deleted ORF photos for mac unrecoverable.

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

The local and the external drives that are detected with Mac ORF 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 ORF 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.

Unprocessed RAW photo taken with an Olympus digital camera; contains unprocessed image data captured by the camera's sensor; settings such as exposure and white balance can be modified after the picture is taken. Different Olympus cameras may produce ORF files with different formatting; therefore, some applications may recognize certain ORF files, but not others.

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