An easy Way to Recover Deleted Photos from Olympus Camera on Mac

I have been taking photos on my digital Olympus camera since 5 years. How can I recover deleted my photos on Mac?

Q: The hard disk of my Macbook has been changed. I have no access to my hard disk. I did not back up all my files properly too. I am wondering whether the deleted photos from my Olympus camera on Mac are recoverable through my memory card. I read that it is possible to recover deleted photos from Olympus camera on Mac. Thank you!

A: If and when that happens, then it is too late to recover your deleted pictures from Olympus camera on Mac so it is very, very important that new pictures or files aren't saved to the memory card in the meantime. One of the easiest ways to see if you canrecover deleted photos from Olympus camera on Mac is to try some photo recovery software - Mac Olympus recovery tool(simply because i was using it and it worked).

There are indeed various ways to Recover Deleted Photos from Olympus Camera on Mac and even if the memory card gets corrupted, you can often salvage the majority of its contents before you have to toss it into the circular file (or, better, reformat it and see if it'll be okay).

Since you're on a Mac, you can follow along when I did a similar task on my Mac, recovering accidentally deleted photographs and avi quicktime movies from a Olympus digital camera. Same basic concept, just a different camera and flash card. This article will tell you An easy Way to Recover Deleted Photos from Olympus Camera on Mac. If you're using Windows, please read How to Recover Digital Photos from Olympus camera.

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

1. Remove digital photo from Olympus camera and put them in a safe place so that you won't accidentally overwrite your deleted Files.

2. Don't save any files to Olympus camera.

If you do save new photos to your Olympus camera, then chances are the deleted files will be overwritten by the new photos rendering deleted digital photos from Olympus camera on Mac unrecoverable.

Mac Olympus 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 Olympus recovery tool. The main panel shows like this:

The local and the external drives that are detected with Mac Olympus 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 photos from Olympus camera on 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.

When you delete digital photos from Olympus camera on mac, the digital 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 photos to the Olympus camera from which you want to get back deleted photos from Olympus camera on mac. OK, now you can read the following guide to recover deleted photos from Olympus camera on Mac.

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