Step-by-Step Guide for Recovering Deleted Photos from Sony Camera on Mac

How to recover photos from a Sony digital camera?

Q: I accidently deleted all my photos from my Sony camera on Mac that I ment to download on my MacBook. Is there any way to recover eleted digital photos from Sony camera on Mac? They are of my daughters baby shower a once in a life time event.

A: You can try photo recovery software for mac to see if your deleted pictures can be recovered, it works better with recovering photos. You must not take anymore pictures with your Sony camera. You have to use a card reader either on your MacBook or an external USB card reader. Put the card in the card reader, open the photo recovery software for mac, then select the drive where files are deleted, then Start to recover photos from Sony camer on Mac.

If you face any of the photo loss problems, your valuable digital photo from Sony become inaccessible on Mac. The problem occurs generally due to corruption of the file system of the memory card or missing system files of memory stick.

Irrespective of the cause of this problem, you lose all your memorable images. However, you should keep in mind that your precious files are not lost and are recoverable until they are overwritten by other files. You can recover deleted photos from Sony camera on Mac, and digital camera using Mac Sony recovery tool in an effective and quick way. If you're a Mac user, this article will tell you Step-by-Step Guide for Recovering Deleted Photos from Sony Camera on Mac. If you're using Windows, please read How to Recover Digital Photos from SONY camera.

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

1. Remove digital photo from Sony 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 Sony camera.

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

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

The local and the external drives that are detected with Mac Sony 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 Sony 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 Sony 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 Sony camera from which you want to get back deleted photos from Sony camera on mac. OK, now you can read the following guide to recover deleted photos from Sony 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