A Relaxing Way to Recover Deleted Photos from XD Card on Mac

How can I recover a corrupt photo on my XD card?

Q: So I was over at a friend's place and decided to view the photos on XD Card we took earlier. There was this one photo which was on its side so I decided to rotate it - as it was rotating, my friend was unaware of it and accidentally pulled out the XD card on Mac. All I see in the thumbnail is just a gray box but it still takes up the space on the XD card. How can I recover deleted photos from XD Card on Mac? Thanks.

A: No free lunch ... yes there are some free photo recovery programs, but they usually don't work all that well. I have tested four and the best one was able to recover about 80% of the images on a 128 mb card and took over 4 hours. I have tested Mac XD Card recovery tool and it recovers 100% of the images and took about 20 minutes to recover them on a 4 GB card. It costs about $69 ... probably less than someone would charge you for recovering deleted photos from XD Card on Mac. You will also need a card reader, since most P&S cameras will not stay on long enough for you to recover the image files if you leave the card in the camera.

XD Card is a compact, durable digital camera memory card which is developed by Fujifilm, Olympus and Toshiba. It is reusable and removable storage media. For the best picture quality and reliability xD card is beast suited for all photographers. Most of the digital cameras used xD cards. xD picture cards provide the best storage capacities at higher resolution. Not only this, it provides the better compatibility with most manufactures. xD cards are used in Olympus and Fujifilm digital camera. xD picture cards are available in the capacities of -16 MB to 2 GB. It has two types M and M+. It saves your photo, picture, movie and audio files safe and sound. If by mistake you delete the pictures on your camera's xD card or format the xD card. You lost your photos from xD card then to recover those photos you need a tool. Mac XD Card recovery tool is an ultimate tool which recover your lost photos.

Mac XD Card recovery tool recover your lost or deleted or corrupted photos from XD Card on Mac. You can recover photos from formatted or corrupted or damaged storage device medi from XD Card on Mac. First of all software thoroughly scan for searching and restoring the lost photos. You can provide an individual scan for selective file format. Simple and advanced algorithm makes this process fast and easy. When software found the lost photos then it display that picture in thumbnail view. Then you can save those pictures on your specified location. Software recovers any image file format like-jpg, bmp, tiff, gif, png etc from XD Card on Mac. Different types of camera support different file format. Mac XD Card recovery tool recover those different supporting file format like- Nikon (NEF, Intel), Canon (CRW, CR2), Olympus (ORF), Sony (SR2), Kodak (K25, KDC, and DCR), Fuji (RAF), Minolta (MRW), Pentax (PEF), and Sigma (X3F) from XD Card on Mac.

Since you're on a Mac, you can follow along when I did a similar task on my Mac, recovering accidentally deleted photographs from XD Card on Mac. Same basic concept, just a different camera and flash card. This article will tell you Is it Possible to Recover Deleted Photos from XD Card on Mac. If you're using Windows, please read How to Recover Digital Photos from XD Card.

If you have deleted photos from XD Card on Mac and want to recover photos from XD Card on Mac, PLEASE STOP SAVING ANY MORE PHOTO FOR XD Card. That's because the more you write new data on your XD Card, the chances of recovering old and deleted photo from XD Card on mac becomes less.

Mac XD Card 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, XD Cards, CF Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks, external Zip drives, FireWire and USB hard drives.

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

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

XD Card do not immediately re-use space from deleted photos on mac and leave it there for a while after the photos has been deleted; therefore you can recover deleted photos from XD Card on 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 photos from XD Card on mac is to act immediately and you will be almost guaranteed to have your photos back from XD Card 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