Does anyone know How to Recover Deleted RAW Photo for Mac

When a RAW photo is deleted from your MacBook it is not really deleted. It is simply removed from the directory of RAW photos in the folder. Even though you can no longer see the RAW photo in the folder, its contents still exist 100% intact at this point. If you're a Mac user, it's moved to the Trash. Whatever the bucket shaped object is called, as long as a RAW photo remains there it can easily be restored in its entirety, with no problem at all. So the first thing to do when you want to recover a deleted RAW photo on Mac is look in the Recycle Trash. If it's there, use the Restore option which will move it back to its original location.

If you emptied the bin, used Shift Delete to get rid of RAW photo on Mac, deleted it from within an application or used some other method of removing it that bypassed the bin, then it is still almost certainly recoverable. When you empty the Recycle Bin or delete a RAW photo using another method, the RAW photo is still not really deleted. The file no longer exists as far as the Mac OS is concerned and the space it occupied becomes available for re-use by other files. But the disk space does not get re-used straight away so the RAW photo that the deleted RAW photo contained will stay on your hard drive for some time to come. In this situation Mac RAW Photo recovery tool is the best option to recover RAW lost photo for Mac.

You can recover deleted RAW photos for Mac on your own with a good photo recovery software. Quick Internet searches will give you a tremendous number of programs that advertise lost photo recovery, and most of them cost between $25 - $40. And I'm using a program called Mac RAW Photo recovery tool that does the very same job but just cost me $69.95. Now I will tell you how to get back deleted RAW photos for Mac by Photo Recovery.

When you delete RAW photos from your MacBook, the RAW 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 RAW photos for mac. OK, now you can read the following guide to recover deleted RAW photos on Mac.

Mac RAW 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 RAW photos on mac.

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

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

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

24-bit RGB graphic containing uncompressed, raw image data; settings such as exposure and white balance can be edited with software after saving the image to a computer.

Mac RAW 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 RAW Photo recovery tool to recover deleted RAW photos for 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